. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. TROGLODYTES.—HENICOEHINA. 363 Nest. Unrecorded. H^ggs. Undescribed. Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima? (McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, 5000 1o 6000 feet (W/iitely). Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 672) that he obtained this bird in the dense woods in the neighbourhood of Mount Roraima, where it frequented the ground and low bush. The " Arekunas " called it Kamarasikarore. Genus HENICORHINA Scl. & Salv. BenicorMna Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1868,
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. TROGLODYTES.—HENICOEHINA. 363 Nest. Unrecorded. H^ggs. Undescribed. Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima? (McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraima, 5000 1o 6000 feet (W/iitely). Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 672) that he obtained this bird in the dense woods in the neighbourhood of Mount Roraima, where it frequented the ground and low bush. The " Arekunas " called it Kamarasikarore. Genus HENICORHINA Scl. & Salv. BenicorMna Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 170. Type R: leuco- sticta (Cab.).. Fig. 140.—To show the length of tail in comparison to the wing. This genus is distinguished by its slender and almost straight bill which is comparatively long, and the nostrils are feathered on the posterior portion. The wing is rounded, the fourth and fifth primaries longest, the exposed portion of the first primary about equal to the length of the tarsus. The tail is rounded at the tip and about three-sevenths the length of the wing. The tarsus is about one-third longer than 'the exposed culmen. Coloration : male and female similar. 572. Henicorhina leucosticta. Cabanis's Black-capped When. Cyphorliinus leucosticta Cab. Arch, fiir Naturg. 1847, p. 206 (Guiana) ; id. in Schomb. Eeis. Gruian. iii. p. 673, 1848. Henicorhina leucosticta Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 287, 1881 (Bartica Grove); Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 200 (Merume Mts., Camacusa); Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 338, no. 3455, 1912. Adult. Crown of head, sides of face, and hind-neck black with. 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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