318 BIRDS OF BEITISH GUIANA. 



coverts green, broadly lined and streaked with yellow, becoming 

 uniform sulphur-yellow on the thighs and under tail-coverts ; 

 basal portion o£ quills below pale grey, and pale brown on the 

 apical- portion ; lower aspect of tail greyish. 



Total length 235 mm., exposed culmen 19, wing 138, tail 85, 

 tarsus 25. 



The specimen from which the description is taken was collected 

 by Mr. McConnell at Mount Roraima in October 1898. , 



Immature male. Similar to the adult female both above and 

 below, but differs in having the throat black, the head and sides 

 of the face also black more or less intermixed with dark earth- 

 brown, and by its larger size. Exposed culmen 21 mm., wing 157, 

 tail 92. 



The young male described was collected on the Cotinga River 

 by Mr. McConnell during his expedition to Mount Roraima in 

 October 1898. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest, Unrecorded in British Guaina. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Cruiana. Mount Roraima, Cotinga River 

 {McConnell collection); Mount Roraima {WJiitely) ; Cotinga 

 River to Mount Roraima {Brown'). 



Extralimital Range. Trinidad and Venezuela. 



Habits. Brown (Canoe and Camp Life, p. 123) gives the 

 following interesting note : — " In the small groves bordering the 

 Arapu River were numbers of birds of a kind allied to the Bell- 

 bird {Casmorhynchus carunculatus) , whose singular call attracted 

 my attention. They utter a repetition of one metallic-sounding 

 note, not unlike that produced by repeated blows of a hammer on 

 an anvil, with great rapidity. A specimen of this bird which I 

 procured was submitted to Dr. Sclater, who identified it as Cas- 

 morhynchus variegatus. The peculiarity of this bird consists in 

 the extraordinary long black leather-like filaments hanging in a 

 fringe from the sides of its large mouth and throat. Its body is 

 white, head brown, and wings black. These birds are very nume- 

 rous from the Cotinga River to Roraima, but east of that river 

 only one or two individuals were met with." 



