520 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Range in British Guiana. Tturibisi River, Mazuruni River, 

 J3emerara River (McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, Meruni(5 

 Mountains, Kamakusa, Bartica ( Whitely) j Georgetown (Brown)^ 



Extralimital Range. Surinam, North Brazil, Venezuela, East 

 Ecuador, North-east Peru. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 668) that this 

 species is found throughout the colony, and that he observed it to 

 be rather common in the light woods near the coast and in the 

 plantations; in the latter place it was one of the commonest birds. 

 It roams about in pairs. The " Macusis " call it Ipitikaha and 

 the " Warraus " Porokeda. 



This note has been copied from Mr. H. Lloyd Price (Timehri 

 (2) V. p. 63), who, when writing on the nest and eggs of some 

 common Guiana Birds, remarks : — " Another species of a reddish 

 colour (Rhamphocaelus jacapa), builds its nest in low bushes, close 

 to the ground, and of much the same materials. The two eggs 

 are of a pinkish white, spotted, and blotched with purple- black." 



The following notes are quoted from Mr. J. J. Quelch 

 (Timehri (2) v. pp. 79, 80), who observed this species in 

 Georgetown: — "Among some of the commonest of the town 

 birds, and at the same time one of the most beautiful, is the 

 Tanagrine bird, commonly known to colonists as the Cashew 

 Backie (Rhamphoccelus jacapa). The bird is known under various 

 common names in different parts of the colony, such as Wasoo, 

 Buok-town Sackie, Silver-beak, Red Sackie, etc., while it hns 

 been referred to by black Creoles as ' white-bill black-bird with 

 a wine breast.' It may be taken as a type of the large family of 

 Tanagridse, whose more than three hundred species are entirely 

 confined to the New World, and almost entirely to the tropical 

 parts, where they form some of the most beautiful natural objects 

 to be met with. The members of this family are distinguished 

 from the other singing birds with nine primary-quills by the 

 presence of a distinct notch on the upper mandible of the bill, 

 wlmse form closely approaches that of the true Pinches, while in 

 many other characters they approach the Sugar-bii-ds already 

 described. 



"The Red-breasted Tanager is to be seen in all parts of the 

 town flitting about the trees, on the fruit and Seeds of which they 

 almost entirely subsist. Their note is sharp and shrill and by no 



