LEISTES. 



569 



to the middle toe and claw, which exceed the length of the 

 exposed culmen by about one-third. Coloration : male and female 

 different. 



706. Leistes milltaris. 



Cayenne Rbd-breasteu Marsh-bied. 



JEmheriza milUaris Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 178, 1758 (Guiana). 



Leistes americanus Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 681, 1848, 



Leisies guianensis Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 218 (Yaruani Eiver, Roraima, 

 .3500 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. .348, 1886 (Eoraima, 

 Georgetown) ; Lloyd Price, Timehri (2) v. p. 65, 1891 (nesting- 

 habits) ; Qnelch, torn. cit. p. 87 (Georgetown). 



Leistes militaris Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. .351, 1912 

 (Abary savannas) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 4.36, no. 

 4483, 1912 ; Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana, p. 137, 

 1917 (Bartica). 



" Colonial Red-breast " {Lloyd Price) ; " Eed-breasfed Black- 

 bird" {Beebe). 



Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, entire back, wings, 

 and tall black, like the sides of the body, lower abdomen, under 

 tail-coverts, and under wing-coverfs ; under surface of flight- 

 quills and lower aspect of tail blackish brown. 



Total length 167 mm., exposed culmen 20, wing 95, tail 59, 

 tarsus 30, middle toe and claw 30. 



The male described was collected on the Abary River in 

 November 1906. 



Adult male (Pin non-breeding plumage). Entire upper surface 

 black with grey or smoke-brown margins to the feathers, in- 

 cluding the middle of the crown of the head, back, and wings ; 

 long upper tail-coverts and some of the tail-feathers barred with 

 grey ; sides of body, lower abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 black with whitish margins to the feathers ; throat, breast, and 

 upper abdomen red, the feathers fringed with white. 



The specimen described was collected on the Abary Eiver in 

 July 1906. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface black, with 

 whitish-buff margins and grey cross-bars to the feathers ; middle 

 and sides of the crown broadly lined with pale buff ; outer margins 

 of primary-quills ochreous; lower back, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail barred with grey, more broadly on the last ; chin whitish ; 



