LEGATUS. 195 



with buffy-white ; tipper ' tail-coverts narrowly edged with 

 chestnut, tail-feathers also fringed with the same colour ; crown 

 of head black, with a large yellow coronal patch in the middle ; a 

 whitish line running from the base of the forehead over the eye 

 along the side of the crown and meeting on the nape ; a spot in 

 front of the eye and ear-coverts black or blackish brown ; cheeks 

 and throat whitish inclining to pale lemon-jellow on the hinder 

 face ; a dark moustachiid streak on each side of the throat which 

 joins the dark brown on the breast, the feathers on the latter being 

 margined with pale lemon-yellow — the margins increasing in 

 width on the lower breast and sides of the body — the dark pattern 

 of the feathers lanceolate in form ; abdomen paler and inclining 

 to whitei; under tail-coverts yellow with dark spear-head markings 

 oil the centre of the feathers; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 sulphur-yellow ; under surface of quills dark brown with rufous 

 inner edges ; lower aspect of tail brown with very narrow 

 rufous edgings to the feathers. 



Total length 146 mm., exposed cul men 11, wing 77, tail 57, 

 tarsus 17. 



The exact locality in British Guiana of the male described is 

 not jiiven. 



Advlt female. Similar to the adult male but rather smaller. 

 Wing 71 uim. 



Tlie female described was collected on the Ituribisi River in 

 August 1909! 



The young bird in its first plumage can always be recognit^ed 

 by the rufous margins to the feathers. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



liange in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Bartica, Kamakabra River, Bonasika River, Great Falls Deii e- 

 rara River, Arawai River {McConnell collection); Bartica, 

 Kamakusa {WMtely). 



JE.vtmxlimital Range, (.^ayenne. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 701) that he 

 found this bird rather common near the const, and that its habits 

 and mode of life are similar to those of Mgiobius erythrurus 

 {?.(■. p. -218). 



