. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 66 BIRDS OF BEITISH GUIANA. Total length 122 mm., exposed culmen 15, wing 67, tail 43, tarsus 25. The description is taken from an example collected on the Ituribisi River in February 1907. Adult female. Differs entirely from the adult male in being rust-brown above with buffy-white spots at the tips of the upper wing-coverts; fore part of head bright rufous, paler and inclining to buif on the sides of the crown ; lores and sides of face black; under surface for the most part white. Wing 67 mm. "
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. 66 BIRDS OF BEITISH GUIANA. Total length 122 mm., exposed culmen 15, wing 67, tail 43, tarsus 25. The description is taken from an example collected on the Ituribisi River in February 1907. Adult female. Differs entirely from the adult male in being rust-brown above with buffy-white spots at the tips of the upper wing-coverts; fore part of head bright rufous, paler and inclining to buif on the sides of the crown ; lores and sides of face black; under surface for the most part white. Wing 67 mm. " The female described was collected on the Supenaam River in 1910. Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. Range in British. Guiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Ituribisi River, Supenaam River, Bartica, Kamakabra River, Abary River, Arawai River, Arwye Creek (McConnell collection') ; Bartica, Takutu River ( Whitely). Ewtralimital Range. Surinam (^Penard), Venezuela, Northern and Western Brazil, East Bolivia, Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 685) this species also frequents the woods near the coast and lives in the dense bushes, and hops about on the ground in search of food. Genns DICHEOPOGON Chubb. Diclropogon Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ii. p. 124, 1918. Type D. poscilonota (Cab.).. Fig. 31.—DicTiropogon poecilonota. The species which I have separated generically had previously been associated with Hypocnenns of Cabanis, but it differs. 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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