. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. HELEODYTES. 353 Family TEOGLODYTIDiE. Wben Brabourne and Chubt published their ' List of the Birds o£ South America' in 1912, this family was represented by ten genera and one hundred and fifteen species. Se-ven of the genera and ten o£ the species are known to occur io British Gruiana, Genus HELEODYTES Cab. Meleodytes Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 80,11851. Type S. griseus (Swains.).. Fig. 136.—To show the form of the bill. The species on which this genus was founded is one of the larirest of the Wrens.
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. HELEODYTES. 353 Family TEOGLODYTIDiE. Wben Brabourne and Chubt published their ' List of the Birds o£ South America' in 1912, this family was represented by ten genera and one hundred and fifteen species. Se-ven of the genera and ten o£ the species are known to occur io British Gruiana, Genus HELEODYTES Cab. Meleodytes Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 80,11851. Type S. griseus (Swains.).. Fig. 136.—To show the form of the bill. The species on which this genus was founded is one of the larirest of the Wrens. The bill is long and compressed, the width at the posterior part of the nostrils is about equal to its depth, the nostrils are oval in shape and have a superior membrane. The wing is almost square, the third to the seventh primaries longest and subequal, the second about equal in length to the The tail is rounded at the tip and nearly as long as the wing. The middle toe and claw are about equal in length to the exposed culmen. Coloration : male and female similar. 566. Heleodytes griseus. Laege Marsh-Wken. Furnarius griseus Swains. Anim. in Menag. p. 325, 1838 (Savannas of Guiana). Campylorhynchus griseus Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Gruian. iii. p. 674,1848 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 186 (part), 1881. Campylorhnychus hicolor (nee Pelz.) Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 188, 1881 (British Guiana). Heleodytes griseus Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Axaer. i. p. 380, no. 3369, 1912. Adult. Crown of the head, nape^ and a line from the lores through the eye backward to the sides of the neck blackish; entire back, wings, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts clay-brown ; inner webs of the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills blackiah VOL. II. ,2a. 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 wo
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