. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 14 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. generally, larvse and ants included. It is a lively bird, constantly on the move, tittering a by no means pleasing cry, made up o£ a succession of harsh and loud sounds, like the other songless birds generally. Genus SAKESPHORUS Chubb. SaJcespJiorus Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ii. 1918, July 1, p. 123. Pro Hypolophus Cabanis & Heine, 1859, nee Miiller & Henle, 1837. Type S. canadensis (Linn.).. Fig. 9.—SahespTiorus canadensis. The chief characters o£ this
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 14 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. generally, larvse and ants included. It is a lively bird, constantly on the move, tittering a by no means pleasing cry, made up o£ a succession of harsh and loud sounds, like the other songless birds generally. Genus SAKESPHORUS Chubb. SaJcespJiorus Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ii. 1918, July 1, p. 123. Pro Hypolophus Cabanis & Heine, 1859, nee Miiller & Henle, 1837. Type S. canadensis (Linn.).. Fig. 9.—SahespTiorus canadensis. The chief characters o£ this genus are the long and conspicuous crest, which is black in the male and rufous in the female, the absence of a concealed white dorsal patch, the somewhat small bill, the depth about one third the length of the exposed culmen, the almost square wing, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh primaries longest, the second primary about equal to the ninth, the rounded tail—the two middle feathers longest, being about six tenths the length of the wing. 356. Sakesphorus canadensis. Black-chksted Bush-Sheikb. Lanius canadensis Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 134, 1766 (Cayenne). ThamnopMlus cirrhatus (Gmel.) Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Gruian. iii. p. 687, 1848 ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 202, 1890 (Quonga). Thamnophilus atricapillus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 423 (British Guiana). ThamnopMlus canadensis Braboume & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 190, no. 1900, 1912. Adult male. Head, sides of face, and throat uniform black, upper back smoke-brown, becoming grey on the rump ; upper. 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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