286 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Total length 160 mm., exposed culmen 18, wing 84, tail 63, 

 tarsus 22. 



The specimen described was collected on the Supenaam River in 

 1913. There is a second example of this form which was collected 

 by Mr. McConnell on the Lower Mazaruni River in 1898, and 

 differs but slightly from the one described from the Supenaam 

 River. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Gruiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Gruiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Supenaam River, Lower Mazaruni 

 River [McConnell collection). 



Extralimital Range. Cayenne. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



535. Attila spadiceus uropygialis. 



Schomburgk's Attila. 



Dasycephala uropygialis Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 686, 1848 



(British Guiana). 

 Attila uropygialis Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 303 (Bartica Grove) ; Sclater, 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 360, 1888 -(Camacusa, Carimang Eiver, 



Bartica Grove). 

 Attila hrasiliensis (nee Less.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 303 (Bartica Grove, 



Camacusa) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Anier. i. p. 318, no. 3251 



(part), 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head, back, scapulars, and lesser upper 

 wing-coverts reddish brown ; median and greater upper wino-- 

 coverts blackish bro^yn, with buffy-white margins to the feathers ; 

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

 quills blackish brown, inclining to ochreous-brown on the outer 

 margins and white or buffy-white on the inner ones ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts yellow ; tail rufous-brown, becoming darker 

 towards the tip ; base of forehead, lores, and feathers above the 

 eye yellow at the base, with black hair-like bristles ; sides of face 

 and ear-coverts ochreous ; chin grey, with black hair-like shafts to 

 tlie feathers ; fore-neck and breast ochreous-brown, the feathers 

 fringed with yellow ; abdomen, lower flanks, and vent white ; 

 under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts yellow ; the 

 greater series of the last and inner margins of the flight-quills 

 below buff; remainder of the quill-lihing dark brown; lower 

 aspect of tail rufous-brown. "Bill blackish and feet dark" 

 (^Schomhurgk). 



