548 BIKD? OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JVest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Ituribisi River^ 

 Bartica, Bonasika River, Abary River, Berbice River {McConnell 

 collection) ; County n River (im Thurm) ; Mount Roraima, Merume 

 Mountains (Whitely). v 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard) , Venezuela, Colombia, 

 Peru, Bolivia, Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Family ICTERIDiE. 



This family, which is confined to the New World only, is 

 distributed thrpughout its area ; from Canada in the north 

 through the United -States to Central America, and the West 

 India Islandsi thence to South America extending to the Straits 

 of Magellan. When Brabourne & Chubb published their ' List of 

 Birds of South America' in 1912, twenty-six genera and ninety- 

 eight species were represented. Thirteen of the genera and 

 twenty of the species are known to occur in British Guiana. 



Genus OSTINOPS Cab. 



Qstinops Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 187, 1851. Type O. decumanus 

 (Pall.). 



, Fig. "ii^.— Qstinops decumanus. 



The species that comprise this genus are birds of large size and 

 are easily. distinguished by the long and sharply pointed bill with 



