. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 282 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. the body rather paler than the npper parts, especially on the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts, with pale shaft-lines to the feathers ; axillaries and a patch on the sides of the body rich chestnut; under wing-coverts grey, with an admixture of pale rufous and white ; under surface of flight-quills pale brown like the lower aspect of the tail, the latter fringed with buff at the tips. Total length 191 mm., exposed culmen 18, wing 111, tail 82, tarsus 19. The specimen
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 282 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. the body rather paler than the npper parts, especially on the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts, with pale shaft-lines to the feathers ; axillaries and a patch on the sides of the body rich chestnut; under wing-coverts grey, with an admixture of pale rufous and white ; under surface of flight-quills pale brown like the lower aspect of the tail, the latter fringed with buff at the tips. Total length 191 mm., exposed culmen 18, wing 111, tail 82, tarsus 19. The specimen described was collected on the Ituribisi River in August 1909. Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the upper wing-coverts darker, the buff spots to the feathers larger, and the elongated patch of ferruginous feathers tipped with black on the middle of the abdomen. Wing 106 mm. The female described was collected on the Supenaam River in 1911. Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. Nest, Unrecorded in British Gruiana. Eggs. Undescribed from British Gruiana. Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi Biver, Supenaam River, Lower Mazaruni River, Bartica, Bonasika River, Makauria River, Tiger Creek {McCorinell collection^ ; Bartica, Kamakusa ( Whitely). Extralimital Range. Cayenne, Eastern Brazil, Eastern Peru, Eastern. Ecuador. Habits. Unrecorded in British Gruiana. Genus LIPANGUS Boie. Lipangus Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 318. Type L. simplex (Licht.).. rig. 112.—To show upper portion of tarsus, hinder aspect. The species on which this genus was based are somewhat large for Passerine birds. The bill is depressed laterally at the base, the. 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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