. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. MYRMOBEKUS.—HYPOCNEMIS. 63' Makauria Eiverj Abary River, Arawai Eiver {McConnell collec- tion) ; Merum^ Mountains ( Whitely). Range. Cayenne (Boddaert), North Brazil, Vene- zuela, Colombia. Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. Genus HYPOCNEMIS Gab. Eypocnemis Cabanis, Arch, fiir Naturg. 1847, i. p. 212. Type -HT. cantator (Bodd.).. Fig. 29.—Hypocnemis cantator. The species on -which this genus was founded is a somewhat small bird. The bill is hooked at the tip, slender in form, and abo
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. MYRMOBEKUS.—HYPOCNEMIS. 63' Makauria Eiverj Abary River, Arawai Eiver {McConnell collec- tion) ; Merum^ Mountains ( Whitely). Range. Cayenne (Boddaert), North Brazil, Vene- zuela, Colombia. Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. Genus HYPOCNEMIS Gab. Eypocnemis Cabanis, Arch, fiir Naturg. 1847, i. p. 212. Type -HT. cantator (Bodd.).. Fig. 29.—Hypocnemis cantator. The species on -which this genus was founded is a somewhat small bird. The bill is hooked at the tip, slender in form, and about two-thirds the length of the tarsus. It possesses short but numerous rictal bristles. The wing is rounded, the fourth and fifth primaries longest and equal, the third intermediate between the seventh and eighth. The tail, which is proportionately long, ia rounded at the tip and graduated, the outer feather on each side about three-fourths the length of the middle ones. Colora- tion : male and female similar. 389. Hypocnemis cantator. "Warbling Ant-Ckebpmr, Formicarius cantator Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 44, 1783 (Cayenne)* Mypocnemis tintinnabwlata Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 684, 1848. Hypocnemis cantator Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 428 (Camacusa, Bartica Grove); Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 285, 1890 (Camacusa, Bartica Grove) ; Braboume & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 211, no; 2120, 1912. Adult male. Entire head and nape black with white tips to many of the feathers which form three irregular lines, a narrow one above each eye which spreads out on the sides of-the neck, and. 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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