200 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Fitangus sulp'huratus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 296 (Bartioa Grove) ; 



Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 176, 1888 (Georgetovsm, Bartica 



Grove) ; Lloyd Price, Timehri (2) v. p. 61, 1891 (nest and eggs) ; 



Quelch, t. c. p. 88 (Georgetown) ; C. A. Lloyd, op. cit. (2)' xi. p. 4, 



1897 (nest and eggs) ; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus. iii. 



p. 200, 1903; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 293, no. 2992, 



1912. 

 Fitangus sulpTiurafus sulphuratus Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, 



pp. 112-131 (Georgetown), p.'135 (Hoorie Creek), p. 247 (Aremu 



Eiver), p. 392, 1910. 



Adult. Head and sides of the fiice black with a somewhat 

 concealed orange and white patch in the middle of the crown ; 

 base of forehead white with black hair-like tips to the feathers ; 

 a broad white line over each eye extending along the sides of the 

 crown and joining on the nape ; lores and feathers in front of the 

 eye black stiffened shafts only, like the rictal bristles ; entire back, 

 scapulars, wings, and tail smoke-brown, darker on the hind-neck 

 where a blackish collar is indicated ; upper wing-coverts slightly 

 edged with rufous ; bastard-.wing, primary-coverts, and flight- 

 quills blackish brown, the last edged on the outer and, much more 

 broadly, on the inner webs with rufous which is increased in 

 extent on the secondaries ; tail dark brown, the feathers more or 

 less e,dged with rufous ; chin and throat white which extends on 

 to the sides of the neck ; remainder of the under surface including 

 the breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under 

 wing-coverts rich yellow; flight-quills below brown with broad 

 rufous margins ; lower aspect of tail brown, the middle feathers 

 slightly edged with rufous. 



Total length 205 mm., exposed culmen 23, wing 110, tail 80, 

 tarsus 25. 



The bird from which the description is taken was collected at 

 Bartica in 1911. 



Breeding-season. April (Beebe). 



JYest. Built of dry grass, lined with feathers, and very deep; is 

 usually placed in the fork of an outer branch of a small tree, or 

 tall bush near a river (Schomburgk). Is an untidy looking 

 object built of dry grasses with an entrance at the side {Lloyd- 

 Price). Builds a large globular nest (C. A. Lloyd). In Bois 

 Immortelle trees {Beebe). 



Eggs. Three in number which are creamy-white, spotted with 

 grey and brown, chiefly at the round end {Lloyd-Price). Lays 



