152 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



under surface oE quills brown with white edges ; lower aspect of 

 tail pale brown. 



Total length 111 mm., exposed culmen 9, wing 57, tail 47, 

 tarsus 17. 



The type described was collected on the Abary River in 

 November 1906. 



I have not been able to compare any sexed specimens from 

 British Griiiana, but I have examined a male and female from 

 Colombia, in the British Museum, which are identical both in 

 colour of plumage and wing-measurement. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Gniima. 

 . . J^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Abary 

 River (McConnell collection^). 



Extralimital Range. East Brazil, Tobago, Trinidad, Venezuela, 

 Colombia. 



■i/a?«ti. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 700) that this 

 bird lives in the outskirts of the woods, in the plantations, and in 

 the gardens of the natives. 



Genus EAMPHOTRIGON Bonap. 



Bamphotrigon Bonaparte, teste Gray, Gen. & Subgen. B. App.-no. 808 (^, 

 1855. Type -B. rujicauda (Spix). 



Fig. 61. — Ramphotrigon rujicauda. 



The species on which this genus was based is conspicuous by 

 its entire rufous tail and the outer aspect of the wings, which are 

 also rufous. The bill is depressed, booked at the tip of the upper 

 mandible, and furnished with bristles at the base. The wing is 



