296 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



from bough to bough and tree to tree, that Paulie, who was 

 trying to shoot them, starfed five, but only succeeded in ob- 

 taining one specimen. He found a dancing place of these birds 

 in a thicket, the ground being beaten down quite smooth by their 

 feet ; and on visiting it early in the morning with Ben, the two 

 together succeeded in shooting two cocks and a hen bird. They 

 told me that there were numbers around the dancing place, and 

 that the two cocks they shot were strutting about with their 

 feathers distended, showing themselves off before the rest." 



Genus EUCHLOKNIS de Fil. 



Euclilornis de Filippi, Mus. Mediol. An. Vert. cl. ii. p. 31, 1847. Type 

 E. riefferi (Boiss.). 



Fig. 116. — Muohlornis riefferi. 



In this genus the bill is depressed at the base, sharply hooked 

 at the tip, and the posterior portion of the nostrils feathered. The 

 wing is rounded, the fourth and fifth primaries longest and sub- 

 equal, the third about equal to the sixth and the second about 

 equal to the seventh. The tail is square at the tip and about three- 

 fourths the length of the wing. The tarsus is about twice the length 

 of the exposed culmen. Coloration : male and female different. 



540. EuGhlornis whitelyi. 



Whitely's Chatterer. 



Pipreola whitelyi Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 449 (Roraima, 

 6000 ft.); Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 304, 1886, p. 502, pi. xii. (Twek- 

 quey Mt., 3000 ft.). 



Huclilornis wMtelyi Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 322, no 8290 

 1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head, nape, and sides of face dark slate- 

 grey ; back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts olive-green ; outer 



