474 BIEDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Upper Takutu 

 Mountains, Bartica, Mazaruni River, Ponasika River, Abary 

 River, Great Falls Demerara River {McConnell collection') ; 

 Mount Roraima, Kamarang River, Kamakusa, Bartica ( fFAiVeZy); 

 Georgetown (Quelch). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (JPenard), East Venezuela. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 676) 

 this species is found throughout the colony, , often associating 

 with Dacnis cayana in search of insects and juicy fruits in the 

 tops of the trees. Schomburgk did not, however, find its nest. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. pp. 77-, 78), who observed 

 this species in Georgetown, remarks : — " Among the trees with 

 dense foliage, and especially fruit-trees such as the mango, the 

 sapodilla, and star-apple, the little Flower-peckers (Certhiola 

 chloropyga^ are always to be found. 



" These little birds are often to be seen hunting for insects 

 among the flowers, and jumping about among the branches of 

 the trees, or feeding on the ripe fruits. Their note is a sharp 

 tweet, pi-pit-tweet, pi-pit-tweet, and on this account they are 

 commonly known as ' pipi-tooree,' though the same name is also 

 applied to a totally distinct bird, a diminutive Tyrant^Shrike 

 (^Todirostrum cinereum) ." 



Genus DIGLOSSA Wagl. 

 Biglossa Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 280. Type D. haritwlor Wagl. 



The chief character by which this genus is easily distinguished 

 is the compressed bill and the sharply-hooked upper mandible. 

 The rictal bristles are somewhat numerous and fairly well de- 

 veloped. The wing is rounded, the second, third, and fourth 

 primaries are longest and equal, the first about equal in length 

 to the sixth. The tail is rounded at the tip and nearly as long as 

 the wing. The tarsus exceeds the length of the exposed culmen 

 by about one-third. Coloration : male and female similar. 



