472 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Total length 171 mm., exposed culmen 13, wing 77, tail 78, 

 tarsus 27, 



The specimen described was collected at Mount Roraima by- 

 Mr. MoOonnell in October 1898. 



AdnU female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 75 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima {McConnell 

 collection) ; Mount Roraima ( Wlntely). 



Hahits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 678) that he 

 only obtained one example o£ this beautiful bird, which was on the 

 Roraima Mountains, in dense woods, at an altitude of GoOO feet. 

 Schomburgk could not give any details of its mode of life. The 

 " Arekunas" called it Weruy. 



Family CCEREBID^. 



When Brabourne and Chubb published tllfiir 'List of the 

 Birds of South America ' in 1912, this family was represented 

 by ten genera and seventyrfive species. Five of the gener^ and 

 eight of the species are represented in British Guiana. 



Genus CCEREBA Vieill. 



Caereha Vieillot, Qis. d'Amer. Sept. i. p. 70, 1807. Type 0. flaveola 

 (Linn.). 



Fig. 180. — Ooereha guianensis. 



The members of this genus are somewhat small birds, which are 

 blackish for the most part on the upper surface and yellow for 

 the greater part on the under parts. The bill is slender, sharply 

 pointed, and slightly curved. 'The wing is rounded, the second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth primaries longest and equal, the first much 

 logger than the sixth but shorter than the fifth. Tlie tail is 

 square at the tip and about two-thirds the length of the wing. 

 The tarsus is about one-fourth longer than the exposed culmen. 

 Coloration : male a»d female similar. 



