310 BIRDS OF BRITrSH GUIANA. 



548. Pyroderus orenocensis. 



Okenoco Feuit-Ceow. 



Ooracina orenocensis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 277 (Orenoco). 

 Fyroderus orenocensis Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 306 note ; Sclater, Cat. B. 



Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 398, 1888 ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



p. 324, no. 3313, 1912. 

 Pyroderus scutatus (nee Shaw) Quelch, Timehri (2) iv. p. 102, 1890 



(Great Falls Demerara River). 



Adult, Greneral colour of the upper surface black, which includes 

 the top of the head, sides of the face and chin, back, wings, and 

 tail ; throat and fore-neck bright red, with blackish bases to the 

 feathers ; breast, abdomen, sides of the body, axillaries, and under 

 wing-coverts chestnut ; thighs and under tail-coverts black ; 

 under surface of quills and lower aspect of tail greyish brown. 

 "Bill dark "plumbeous; feet black " (Oat. B. Brit. Mus.). 



Total length 380 mm., exposed culmen 47, wing 216, tail 141, 

 tarsus 38. 



The specimen described was collected on the Cuyuni Eiver. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. * 



Mest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



ll^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in Sritish Guiana. Cuyuni River, Demerara River 

 (McConnell collection) ; Mallali, Demerara River {Quelch). 



EMralimital Range. Venezuela, Colombia. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus CEPHALOPTEEUS Geoff. 



GepJialopterus Geoffrey, Ann. Mus. Paris, xiii. p. 235, 1809 Type 

 C ornatus GeofE. 



This genus is distinguished chiefly by the large tuft of orna- 

 mental feathers on the top of the head and the large dependent 

 lappet on the throat. Coloration : male and female similar. 



549. Cephalopterus ornatus. 



Umbeella-bird. 



Ceplialopterus ornatus Geoff. Ann. Mus. Paris, xiii. p. 235, pi. 17, 1809 

 ("Bresil"); Cab. in Schomb. Reig. Guian. iii. p. 691, 1848; Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1885, p. 306 (British Guiana) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. 

 p. :^99, 1888 ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 325, no. 3315, 

 1912. 



