582 BIRDS OF EIIITISH GUIANA. 



equal in length to the eighth. The tail is rounded at the tip, <he 

 outer feather on each side is about one-fifth shorter than the 

 middle ones, and the tarsus Is about equal in length to the exposed 

 cuhnen. Coloration : male and female similar. 



712. Euopsar croconotus, 



Oeange-backed Okiole, 



Psarocolius erocnnotus Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 757 (Guiaria). 



Icterus jamacaii (nee Gmel.) Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 679, 



1848. 

 Icterus croconotus Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 383, 1886 (British 



Guiana) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) v. p. 86, 1891 (Georgetown) ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 439, no. 4522, 1912. 



"Tronpiar* {Quelch). 



Adult. Crown of head, entire hack, upper tail-coverts, lesser 

 npper wing-coverts, sides of neck, breast, abdomen, sides of body, 

 and nnder . tail-coverts bright orange ; axillaries nnd under wing- 

 coverts yellow; some of the greater upper wing-coverts white 

 at the base, as are also some of the primary mid secondary 

 quills ; forehead, sides of face, throat, and fore-neck, scapulars, 

 wings, and tiiil black ; under surface of flight-quills blackish 

 brown ; lower aspect of tail black. 



Total length 226 mm,, exposed culmen 25, wing 102, tail 89, 

 tarsus 27. 



The specimen described was collected in the Upper Takutu 

 Mountains in 1909. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Mest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from Britsh Guiana. 



Mange in British Guiana. Takutu Mountains (McConnell col- 

 lection); Georgetown [Quelch). 



Extralimital Range. Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivta. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 679) that he 

 only met with this species in the woods bordering the Savanna 

 rivers, being especially common on the Takutu, Mahn, and Piara. 

 Though very common, it always kept in pairs, hunting the trees 

 ^nd bushes in search for insects and fruits. It has a very pleasing 

 song. The settlers were, therefore, very fond of the bird, but they 

 never succeeded in keeping it in captivity. The " Macusis " call 

 it Murumuruta. 



