. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 24 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. remains o£ rusty-brown on the wings and under tail-coverts and the throat grey instead o£ black. Adult female. Upper surface rufous-brown ; inner webs of flight-quills dark brown edged with cinnamon-buff; throat whitish tinged with bufF; breast pale rufous-brown, becoming bright rufous on the lower abdomen, under tail-coverts, and under wing- coverts. Wing 70 mm. The female described was collected on the Kamakabra River. Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. Nest. Un
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 24 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. remains o£ rusty-brown on the wings and under tail-coverts and the throat grey instead o£ black. Adult female. Upper surface rufous-brown ; inner webs of flight-quills dark brown edged with cinnamon-buff; throat whitish tinged with bufF; breast pale rufous-brown, becoming bright rufous on the lower abdomen, under tail-coverts, and under wing- coverts. Wing 70 mm. The female described was collected on the Kamakabra River. Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, Partica, Kamakabra River, Bonasika River, Great Falls Demerara River, Arwye Creek (IfcConneZZ collection); Bartica, Kamakusa, Merum6 Mountains, Mount Roraima, Takutu River (^Whitely) ; Marakka (W. L. Sclater). Extralimital Range. Cayenne (^British Museum), Venezuela, Central Brazil. Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. Genus THAMNOMANES Cab. Tliamnmnanes Cabanis, Archiv fiir Naturg. xiii. pt. i. p. 230, 1847. Type T. cwsius (Licht.).. Fig. 12.—Thamnomanes cassius. Head not created, but a concealed white dorsal patch is present. Bill sharply hooked, somewhat broad at the base, and profusely furnished with rictal bristles; the exposed culm en is about 16 mm. and about equal to the tarsus in length. Wing rounded, the fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries longest, the third shorter than the sixth and longer than the seventh. In the type of the genus. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chubb, Charles; McConnell, Frederick Vavasour, d. 1914. London, B. Quaritch
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