. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. GRALLAEICULA. FURNARIUS. 87 Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. Nest. Unrecofded in British Guiana. Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. Range confined to British Guiana. Kukenam Mountains {WUtely). Habits. Unrecorded. Family FUB,NARIIDiE. This family consists of ten genera and about seventy-three species. Three o£ the genera and five of the species are repre- sented in British Guiana. Genus PUENAEIUS Vieill. Furnarius Vieillot, Analyse d'une nouv. Omith. element, p. 47, 1819. Type F. rufus


. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. GRALLAEICULA. FURNARIUS. 87 Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. Nest. Unrecofded in British Guiana. Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. Range confined to British Guiana. Kukenam Mountains {WUtely). Habits. Unrecorded. Family FUB,NARIIDiE. This family consists of ten genera and about seventy-three species. Three o£ the genera and five of the species are repre- sented in British Guiana. Genus PUENAEIUS Vieill. Furnarius Vieillot, Analyse d'une nouv. Omith. element, p. 47, 1819. Type F. rufus (Gmel.).. Fig. 40.—Vurnarius rufus. The members of the present genus are distinguished by having the exposed culmen about equal in length to that of the middle toe and claw. The wing is almost square, the secondaries being only about 5 mm. shorter than the primaries, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries longest and subeqnal, the second about equal to the seventh. The tail is slightly rounded and rather more than half the length of the wing, and the tarsus about the same length as the tail. Coloration : male and female similar, 404. Furnarius leucopus leucopus. White-eyebeowed Ovbn-bikd. Furnarius leucopus Swains. Anim. in Menag. p. 325, 1838 (Guiana); Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 688, 1848; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 418; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 13, 1890 (British Guiana); Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 222, no. 2239,1912. Adult male. General colour above cinnamon-rufous, including. 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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