PIPEOMORPHA. — LBPTOPOGON. 173 



Total length 116 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 62, tail 45, 

 tarsus 16. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the above description is taken from the type, which is in the 

 British Museum. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima and Merume 

 Mountains {Whitely). 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



Genus LEPTOPOGON Cab. 



Leptopogon Cabanis, Arch, fur Naturg. 1844, pt. i. p. 275. Type 

 L. superdliaris Cab. 



Fig. 72. — Leptopogon superdliaris. 



In this genus the bill is compressed, the width at the hinder 

 portion of the nostrils being about one-third the length of the 

 exposed culmen, the tip of the upper mandible is hooked and 

 the rictal bristles are well dereloped. The wing is rounded, the 

 third and fourth primaries longest, the second is about equal to 

 the sixth and the first about three-fourths the length of the 

 second ; there is an indication of a small spine on the under 

 surface at the base of the first primary. The tail is square at the 

 tip and about five-sixths the length of the wing, and the tarsus is 

 about one-fifth longer than the exposed culmen. Coloration : 

 male and female similar. 



464. Leptopogon amaurocephalus. 



Schombdrgk's Fltcatchbe. 



Leptopogon amaurocephalus Cabanis, Arch, fiir Naturg. 1847, i. p. 251 

 (Brazil); Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 293 (Merume Mts., Eoraima 



