PAGHTRHAMPHUS. 275 



bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform dark brown ; flight- 

 quills also dark brown, with buffy-white edges more broadly on 

 the inner webs ; middle tail-feathers olive-brown slightly tipped 

 with buff, which increases in extent towards the outermost, where 

 it occupies about one-third of the entire feather, the remainder or 

 basal portion of the outer feathers dark brown ; a ring of short 

 white feathers encircles the eye ; the short feathers at the base of 

 the forehead pale rust-colour; throat, middle of breast, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts lemon-yellow ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts sulphur-yellow ; under surface of flight-quills pale brown 

 with buffy-white inner edges ; lower aspect of tail olive, sub- 

 terminally brown, and broadly tipped with buff. Wing 70 mm. 



The female described was collected at the Takutu Mountains in 

 1909. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Ituribisi 

 River, Supenaam River, Bartica, Essequibo River, Bonasika 

 River [McConnell collection) : Mount Roraima, 3500 to 4000- ft. 

 ( Whitely). 



JEiVtralimital Range. Trinidad, Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 698) 

 this bird lives in the coast-woods and often visits the isolated 

 trees near the plantations. 



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 529. Padiyrhamphus atricapillus. 



Black-capped Thick-bill. 



Lanius atricapillus Merrem, Aves Icon, et Descr. p. 26, 1784 (Surinam). 



PachyrhampJius atricapillus Cab. in Schomb. Eels. Guian. iii. p. 689,, 

 1848 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 302 (Merume Mts., Camacusa, Bartica 

 Grove); Sckter, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 347, 1888 (Bartica 

 Grove, Camacusa, Merume Mts.); Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, 

 p. 131, 1910 (Georgetown) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 

 p. 316, no. 3232, 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of the head black, with glossy blue-black tips 

 to the feathers ; hind-neck, back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts 

 dark slate-grey, with more or less blue-black intermixed on the 

 upper back ; lesser and median upper wing-coverts blue-black, 

 the latter margined with white ; greater coverts and inner 



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