. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . , in this country. The nest resembles a largeyam heap, and is composed of vegetable substances tlnown up bythe sea. It is about two feet high and shaped like a truncatedcone. The eggs are laid in August and have thick chalky-wliiteshells. Tlieyare a little longer than those of a Goose and seem tohe fiom two to three in number. 186* BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. Order Tlie members of this family, which var^^ considerably in size,are distingiii>hed chit fly by the shape of th
. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . , in this country. The nest resembles a largeyam heap, and is composed of vegetable substances tlnown up bythe sea. It is about two feet high and shaped like a truncatedcone. The eggs are laid in August and have thick chalky-wliiteshells. Tlieyare a little longer than those of a Goose and seem tohe fiom two to three in number. 186* BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. Order Tlie members of this family, which var^^ considerably in size,are distingiii>hed chit fly by the shape of their bills. They aredistributed over the greater part of the known world. There aieabout two liundred species, of which fifty-one occur in SouthAmerica, and eight of these are represented in British Guiana. Genus CAIRINA Flem. Cairina Fleming, Phil, of Zoul. ii. p. 260, 1S22. Type G. moscliata(Linn.). This genus is characterized by having the lores naked ; theforehead and base of the l»ill ornamented with caruncles ; and anelevated crest of* recoiled feathers on the fore part of the Fig. 48.—To show the elevated crest and the caruncles on theforehead and sides of the face. 117. Cairina Dlck. Anas moschafa Linn. Syst. Xat. 10th ed. i. p. 124,17-38 (Brazil) ; Brown,Canoe and Camp Life, p. lOo (Annai).p. 137 (Kupununi Savannas),p. 271 (Cotinga lliver), 1876. Carina tnoschaia Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Giiian. iii. p. 763, 1848. Cairina moscliata Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 173 (Yiuuani lliver, 2700 ft.,Roraima); Quelch, Timehri (2) ii. p. 363, 1888 (Abary lliver) ; CAIEINA. 187 Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xsvii. p. 51, 1895 ; Lloyd, Timeliri (2)xi. p. 8, 1897; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 135, 1910(Mora Passage), p. 357 (ALarv Eiver) ; Bi-abourne & Chubb, B. i. p. 54, no. 499, 1912. ^Miwah (C. .4. Lloyd); ^ Bisam or Turkish Duck(^Sclwmhurgh). Adult male. Back, %Yiugs, and tail dark glossy green ; axillaries,upper and under wing-coverts pure white;
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