218 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



493. Myiobius erytlirurus. 



Ebu-tailed Flycatcher. 



Myiobius erythrurus Cab. Arch, fiir Naturg. 1844, i. p. 249, pi. 5. fig. 1 

 (Gruiana) ; id. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 701, 1848 ; Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1885, p. 297 (Camacusa, Bartioa Grove) ; Sclater, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 203, 1888 (Carimang River); Braboui-ne & 

 Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 296, no. 3025, 1912. 



Terenotricus erythrurus erythrurus Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, 

 pp. 313, 392, 1910 (Aremu Kiver). 



Buff-tailed Tyrantlet (Behee). 



Adult male. Head, hind-neck, and upper back slate-grey 

 becoming paler grey on the sides of the face and sides of the 

 neck — still paler and inclining to whitish on the chin ; wings dull 

 rufous including the median and greater under wing-coverts and 

 innermost secondaries ; outer edge of wing with the bastard-wing 

 and primary-coverts blackish, as are also the inner webs of the 

 flight-quills which are margined with pale rufous ; lower back, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail cinnamon-rufous ; breast, abdomen, 

 under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts pale cinnamon-rufous ; 

 under surface of flight-quills dark brown with rufous edgings 

 which increase in widih on the inner ones ; lower aspect of tail 

 the same as above. 



Total length 93 mm., exposed culmen 8,wing 51, tail 38, tarsus 16. 



The specimen from which the description is taken was collected 

 on the Anarica liiver in 1913. 



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

 Wing 45 mm. 



breeding-season. Unknown in British Gruiana. 



Hest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, 

 Anarica River, • Arawai River, Great Falls Demerara River 

 [McConnell collection) ; Bartioa, Kamakusa, Ivamarang River 

 ( Whitely) ; Aremu River (Beebe). 



JSictralimital Mange. Venezuela. 



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

 bird is usually found in flocks in the outskirts of the woods and 

 gardens of the natives, where it may be seen flying from tree to 

 tree in search of insects. 



The following note has been copied from Beebe (Our Seiirch 

 for a Wilderness, p. 313) :— " A Buff-tailed Tyrantlat. This waif 



