PIPHOMORPHA. 171 



head, enr.ire back, scapulars, and lesser upper wing-coverts ; 

 median and greater coverts dark brown margined with bronze- 

 green like the primary-coverts ; outer aspect of flight-quills also 

 bronze-green, inner webs dark brown edged with buff; tail bronze- 

 green ; sides of face, throat, sides of neck, and sides of breast dull 

 green but paler than the back ; remainder of the under surface 

 ochreous more or less tinged with green ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts cinnamon-rufous ; under surface of quills brown 

 with rufous edgings; lower aspect of tail bronze-brown. 



Total length 119 mm., exposed culmen 11, wing 67, tail 48, 

 tarsus 17. 



The bird from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Anarica River in 1913. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 62 mm. 



Breeding. season. March (Beebe). 



Kest. For description of nest, see Beebe infra. 



Eggs. For description of eggs, see Beebe infra. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Bartica, Kamakabra River, Bonasika River, Anarica River, Arwye 

 (Jreek, Great Falls Denierara River, Arawai River [McConnell 

 collection) ; Kamakusa, Bartica ( Whitely). 



Extraliiiiital Range. Surinam [Penard), Cayenne. '" 



Habits. The following notes have been copied from Beebe 

 (Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 223 et ieg.):— " The 

 ne.-t of this species is really a duplicate of other forest flycatcher 

 liangiiests — Colopterus, Rliynchocyclus, and probably many others 

 whose nests are unknown. Hanging from small vines in the 

 densest forest, usually close to the ground, it looked like some 

 large, mossy, coinucopia-shaped fruit, fastened, pear-like, by its 

 little end. The entrance, near the bottom and to one side, was 

 hidden from sight of the casual observer bj' overhanging fendiils 

 of living moss which acted effectively as a curtain. Upon enter- 

 ing its home the bird found itself in a narrow, upward slantino- 

 tunnel that led to a hole in the roof of the cave in which rested 

 the eggs. It was necessary for her to push through this openino 

 and to drop gently, with the utmost care, upon the eggs below. 

 The parent was tnen in a tiny cup of a room whose walls were 

 thickly lined with soft hair, backed by fine shreds of jungle bark. 



" The body of the nest was composed entirely of living tree moss 

 skilfully woven together to form a waterproof mass. Scattered 



