. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 102 BIBDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 1890; Bral)ourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 238, no. 2415, 1912; Chubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxxi. p. 39, 1913 (Supenaam River, British Guiana). Adult (unsexed). Entire back, tipper wing-coverts, innermost secondaries, and tail rufous-chestnnt; bastard-wing, primary- coverts, primary and secondary quills dark brown, some of the secondaries rufous-chestnut on the outer webs; crown of head, nape, and sides of neck black with white shaft-lines to the feathers, the whit
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 102 BIBDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 1890; Bral)ourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 238, no. 2415, 1912; Chubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxxi. p. 39, 1913 (Supenaam River, British Guiana). Adult (unsexed). Entire back, tipper wing-coverts, innermost secondaries, and tail rufous-chestnnt; bastard-wing, primary- coverts, primary and secondary quills dark brown, some of the secondaries rufous-chestnut on the outer webs; crown of head, nape, and sides of neck black with white shaft-lines to the feathers, the white increasing in width on the nape and sides of the neck; ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat white with dark brown margins to the feathers ; fore-neck and upper breast also white, with black semicircular spots on the margins of the feathers, the white decreasing and the black increasing on the lower breast and abdomen ; lower flanks and under tail-coverts black barred with white ; under wing-coverts barred or spotted with brown ; under surface of quills greyish brown ; lower aspect of tail rufous. Total length 197 mm., "exposed culmen 25, wing 102, tail 85, tarsus 22. The bird described was collected on the Kamakabra River in 1911. Breeding-season. Unknown in British,Guiana. Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. Range in British Guiana. Supenaam River, Kamakabra River {McConnell collection). Range. Santarem, Northern Brazil. Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. Genus AUTOMOLUS Reichenb. Automolus Reichenbach, Handb. sp. Orn. p. 173, 1853. Type A. leuco- plithalmus (Wied)... Fig. 44.—Automolus leucopMJialmus. The species on which this genus is based is more or. 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,
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