24G BIHDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Tliis specimen was also collected on the Lower Mazarani River 

 by Mr. McConnell in 1898. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. See Schomburgk, infra. 



Eggs. Ilndescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Ireng 

 River, Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, Bartica, Kainakabra River, 

 Bonasika River, Lower Mazaruni River (McConnell collection) • 

 Bartica ( Whitely) . 



Extralimital Range. North-east Venezuela, Northern Brazih 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 696) 

 the habits of this bird are very similar to those of C. pareola^ 

 though he met with it more often solitary or in j)airs, and niarly 

 always in dense woods or shrubs, especially along the banks of 

 rivulets in the woods. Its nest is also like that of C pareola, 

 p. i56. 



510. Pipra leucocilla. 



White-crowned Black Manakin. 



Parus leucocilla Linn. Mus. Ad. Frid. Prodr. ii. p. 33, 1764 (Surinam). 

 Pipra leucocilla Cab. in Schomb. lleis. Guian. iii. p. 697, 1848 ; Salvin, 



Ibis, 1885, p. 300 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, Mei-ume Mts.) ; 



W. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1887, p. 318 (Maccasseema) ; P. L. Sclater, 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi^. p. 297, 1888 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa); 



Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 311, 1910 (Aremu Kiver) ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 306, no. 3120, 1912. 



Adult male. Grown of head and nape white ; remainder of the 

 plumage velvety blue-black. 



Total length 91 mm., exposed culmen 11, wing 64, tail 24, 

 tarsus 16. 



The male described was collected by Mr. McConnell on the 

 Mazaruni River in 1898 during his expedition to Mount Roraima. 



Adv.lt female. General colour above green, with a slaty tinge on 

 the head ; under surface grey, including the under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries ; a band of green across the breast. Wing 63 mm. 



The description of the female is taken from an example collected 

 on the Ituribisi River in February 1907. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



West. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. 'Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana, Cotinga River, Ituribisi River, 



