. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. PLANBSTICUS. HYLOCICHLA. 387 Habits. The following note is quoted from Beebe (Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 322):—"A beautiful nest of a White- throated Robin made of green growing moss, and placed close to the trunk of a tree, about six feet from the ground This Thrush is olive-brown above, pale below with a streaked chin and throat like our Northern Robin. Its most characteristic mark, however, is a patch of pure white on the upper breast, which flashes out like a star among the shadows of t
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. PLANBSTICUS. HYLOCICHLA. 387 Habits. The following note is quoted from Beebe (Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 322):—"A beautiful nest of a White- throated Robin made of green growing moss, and placed close to the trunk of a tree, about six feet from the ground This Thrush is olive-brown above, pale below with a streaked chin and throat like our Northern Robin. Its most characteristic mark, however, is a patch of pure white on the upper breast, which flashes out like a star among the shadows of the Jungle There were two eggs, pale blue-green, thickly spotted with brown of various shades, much more densely at the larger ; Genus HYLOCICHLA Baird. Hylocichla Baird, Review American Birds, p. 12, 1864. Type -ST. mus telinus (Gmel.).. Fig. 148.—To show the form of the bill. The species that comprise this genus differ from the Thrushes generally by their smaller size. The bill is short and compressed on the apical portion, its width at the nostrils being rather less than half the length of the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, the third and fourth primaries longest and equal, the second about equal to the fifth, and the first about one-sixth the length of the second. The tail is square at the tip and about two-thirds the length of the wing, and the tarsus is slightly less than half the length of the tail. Coloration : male and female similar. Key to the Species. A. Upper surface pale fulvous ff. fuscescens, p. 388. B. Upper surface olive S. alicice, p. 388. C. Upper surface dark ochreous-brown -ff. MS<«Zato, p. 389. 2c2. 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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