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the birds can live to arrive at maturity. We have seen a yonng^ 

 Kiskadee so infested with these dis<; listing larvse that it was unable- 

 to ch)se its wings, while its body was distorted to such an extent 

 as to be hardly recognizable. The Kiskadee is the commonest 

 Tyrant found in the Colony." 



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483. Pitangus lictor. 



Lichtenstetn's Flycatcher. 



Lanius lictor Lieht. Verz. Doubl. p. 49, 1823 (Para). 



Sturophagus lictor Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 698, 1848. 



Pitangus lictor Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 296 (Bartica Grove) ; Sclater, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 178, 18S8 (Bai-tica Grove); Quelch, 

 Timehri (2) v. p. 89, 1891 (Georgetown) ; Beebe, Our Search for 

 a Wilderness, p. 116, 1910 (Georgetown), p. 207 (Aremu River), 

 p. 357 (nesting) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 293,. 

 no. 2996, 1912. 



A dult female. Head and sides of the face black with a coronal 

 patcii of orange and white coloured feathers ; base of forehead 

 and lores whitish with black hair-like tips to the feathers ; a broad 

 .line of white over each eye along the sides of the crown and 

 uniting on the nape; entire back, scapulars, and wings smoke- 

 bi'own \yith a slight greenish tinge; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverbe uniform brown ; flight-quills dark brown edged with rufous 

 on the outer webs and much more broadly with cinnamon- 

 rufous on the inner ones ; upper tail-coverts slightly fringed 

 with rufous ; tail-feathers dark brown more or less fringed with 

 rufous; chin and throat white; remainder of under surface pale 

 yellow including the breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, 

 and under wing-coverts ; under surface of quills broadly edged 

 with cinnamon-rufous; lower aspect of tail pale brown with 

 paler edgings to the middle feathers. 



Total length 166 mm., exposed culmen 19, wing 88, tail 69, 

 tarsus 19. 



The female from which the description is taken was collected 

 at the Takutu Mountains in 1908. 



Adult male. Similar to adult female but slightly larger. Wing 

 93 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



J'ange ill British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains (McConnell 



