166 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Genus HABRUEA Cab. & Hein. 



Kabrura Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 53, 1859. Type S. pecio 

 ralis (VieUl). . 



Fig. 69. — Hahrura pectoralis. 



The species on which this genus was founded is a small bird. 

 The bill is narrow, the width being about half the length of the 

 exposed culmen. The wing is almost square, the secondaries 

 being only about 3 mm. shorter than the primaries, the second, 

 third, and fourth primaries longest, and the first about equal in 

 length to the fifth. The tail is proportionately long, being about 

 four-fifths the length of the wing. The tarsus is about half the 

 leuo-th of the tail. Coloration : male and female similar. 



459. Habrura brevipennis. 



Short-winged Pygmy Tyrant. 



Polysficfus brevipennis Berlepsoh & Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix. p. 40, 1902 

 (Caicara) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 280, no. 285.S, 1912. 



Sapalocercus pectoralis (nee Vieill.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 293 (Eoraima, 

 3500 ft.). 



Habrura pectoralis Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 96 (part), 1888 

 (lloraima). 



Adult male. Fore part of head and sides of face dark brown 

 with white edgings to the feathers ; hind-neck, back, and scapulars 

 rust-brown, rather more rufous on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts ; upper wing-coverts brown with rufous margins like the 

 innermost secondary-quills; primary- quills dark brown with pale 

 edgings on both the outer and inner webs ; tail brown with pale 

 margins to the feathers ; short feathers at base of bill whitish ; 

 chin blackish at base with yellowish-white tips to the feathers; 

 sides of neck, breast, sides of body, and thighs fawn-colour, some- 

 what paler on the lower throat ; middle of abdomen and under 



