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anil superciliary line, sparsely covei-ed, buff; throat ^vlliti<^l ; 

 breast and abdomen rufous brown with bhick bars or spots to the 

 feathers; downy under tail-coverts dusky tinged with rufous. 



Breeding-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Nest. " Built of leaves and twigs and placed under a low slirul) 

 on the ground " [Broion) : " the nest is made on the ground " 

 [Scliomhurglc) . 



Eggs, " Eight in number, whi( e " {Brown) ; " as many as 

 fourteen eggs are sometimes found " [C. A. Lloyd) ; " six to eight 

 white eggs "" (^ScJiomhurgk). 



Range in British Guiana, Ituribisi liiver, Supenaam River, 

 Bartica, Kamakabra River, Bonasika River, Anarica River, 

 Demerara River, Tiger Creek {A/cConnell collection) ; Aremu 

 River [Beehe) ; Wahniarra Mountains, Demerara River {Broion) ; 

 Merume Mountains, Kamakusa, Bartica {WJiitelg). 



Extralimital Range. North-east Brazil. 



Ilahits. Regarding this bird, Schomburgk writes (Reis. Guian. 

 iii. p. 747): — Lives only in thick woods and up to an altitude of 

 3000 feet. The young must leave their parents shortly after they 

 are hatched, as I nearly always found this species singly or in 

 pairs. Just before dawn and sunset one hears their peculiar far 

 sounding call-note, which the Indians imitate for the purpose of 

 decoying them within gunshot. It seems to me that it is only 

 the males that call. The nest is made on the ground, and they 

 lay from six to eight white eggs. The settlers and natives call 

 it Duraquarra, the "Macusis" JDokorra, and the "Warraus'"* 

 Baharre ; this word much like its call-note. 



Mr. Barrington Brown, who found this bird breeding on the 

 Demerara River, writes (Canoe and Camp Life, p. 371) : — "We 

 found the nest of a ' Duraquara ' {OdontopJiorus guiatiensis) con- 

 taining eggs. The nest was Ijuilt of leaves and twigs, placed 

 under a low shrub on the ground, and was roofed over, having a 

 small entrance in front. It contained eight white eggs, in size 

 Ijotwcen those of a fowl and pigeon." 



Mr. (;. A. Lloyd (Timehri (2) xi. p. 2) writes :— " Of all our 

 game-birds the ' Duraqunra,' Odoulopliorus gaianensis, seems to 

 bo the most prolific, as many as fourteen eggs being sometimes 

 found in a nest, which, like that of the large I\Iaam, is a shallow 

 dcprossion near to sonu! tree-root, having an arched approich of 

 al)Out a foot in length, foi'uicd by the ln'iiding inuai'd of grass 



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