. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. FLDVIOOLA.—ARUNDINICOLA. 139 The following note haa been copied from H. Lloyd-Price (Timehri (2) v. p. 64) who remarks as follows:—" In low bushes, especially when they hang over water, the little black and white silk Cotton-bird [Fluvicola pica), builds a dome-shaped nest of dry pimpler sticks and lays three eggs, which are white, faintly spotted with ; Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. p. 91) observed this species in Georgetown, and remarks:—" A very common small Tyrant, about 4-5
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. FLDVIOOLA.—ARUNDINICOLA. 139 The following note haa been copied from H. Lloyd-Price (Timehri (2) v. p. 64) who remarks as follows:—" In low bushes, especially when they hang over water, the little black and white silk Cotton-bird [Fluvicola pica), builds a dome-shaped nest of dry pimpler sticks and lays three eggs, which are white, faintly spotted with ; Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. p. 91) observed this species in Georgetown, and remarks:—" A very common small Tyrant, about 4-5 inches in length, known as Cotton-bird {Fluvicola pica), is also usually to be found about the grassy parts of the town, and more especially by the trenches of the outskirts among grassy and busily wastes. These pretty but sober-coloured little birds feed cluefly on worms and insects which they seek among the grass and low bush and on the ground. They are not at all shy, but will allow of one's close ; Genus ARUNDINICOLA d'Orb. Arundinicola d'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Merid. Ois. p. 334, 1840. leucocephala (Linn.).. Fig. 57.—Arundinicola leucocephala. This genus is also conspicuous by the black and white plumage of the male. The bill is proportionately long, hooked at the tip of the upper mandible, and finished with rictal bristles at the base; the width at the basal portion is about three-fifths the length of the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, the fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries Igngest and subequal, the first is short, the second abnormally narrow, slightly longer than the third, and about equal to the eighth. The tail is slightly rounded at the tip and rather more than two-thirds the length of the wing. The tarsus is short, being only slightly longer then the exposed culmen. Coloration : male and female Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration
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