206 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



base being about three-fifths the length of the exposed culmen, the 

 upper mandible is sharply hooked at the tip, and the nostrils and 

 loral space covered with black bristles. The wing is rounded, 

 the second, third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest and subequal, 

 the first about equal in length to the eighth. The tail is square 

 at the tip and about seven-tenths the length of the wing. The 

 tarsus is about equal in length to that of the exposed culmen and 

 only slightly longer than the middle toe and claw. Coloration : 

 male and female similar. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Upper surface for the most part brown ; tail 



for the greater part rufous ; throat and ^ 



under surface narrowly streaked with 



brown M. maculaius, p. 206. 



B. Upper surface chiefly black ; tail mostly 



black ; throat and under surface broadly [p. 208. 



streaked with black M. soUtarius duncani, 



485. Myiodynastes maculatus. 



Streaked Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa maculata P. L. S. Miill. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 169, 1776 



(Cayenne). 

 Muscicapa audax Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 934, 1789 (Cayenne). 

 Scaphorhynchus audax Cab. in Schpmb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 699, 1848. 

 Myiodijnastes audax Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 296 (Bartica Grove) ; Sclater, 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 185, 1888 (Bartica Grove). 

 Myiodynastes maculatus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 294, 



no. 3002, 1912. 

 Myiodynastes maculatus maculatus Beebe, Trop. Wild Life, pJ 134, 



1917. 



Adult female. General colour above daik brown with pale 

 margins to the feathers which imparts a streaked appearance ; an 

 orange-yellow patch on the middle of the crown which is more or 

 less obscured by the dark tips to the feathers ; the short feathers 

 at the base of the forehead and over the eye whitish with dark 

 shaft-streaks ; lores and short feathers in front of the eye 

 black and bristly in texture; upper portion of ear-coverts 

 blackish, the lower portion and cheeks smoky-white, followed by 

 a dark line along the cheeks ; crown of head dark brown 

 with paler brown margins to the feathers like the hind-neck ; 



