1 1(J BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Young in partial down. General colour of the upper >urfao9 

 blackish brown with broad sandy-rut'ous margins to the feathers ; 

 marginal upper wing-coverts black edged with rufous ; median 

 and greater coverts grej with dark shaft-lines and broad rufous 

 margins ; bastard-wing, priinarj-coverts, primary and secondary 

 quills black ; lower back and rump covered with down, sandy 

 rufous dotted with black ; upper tail-coverts rufous and grey ; 

 tail-feathers grey showing indistinct dark bars, a subapical while 

 band and black tip ; a white superciliary line which extends back- 

 wards and meets on the hind-neck, where it is fringed above and 

 below^ with black ; a broad black baud on the sides of the hinder 

 crown ; ear-coverts and middle of throat rufous narrowly streaked 

 with black, becoming more grey on the breast ; chin and sides of 

 throat white, as also the abdomen and thighs ; under tail-coverls 

 sandy rufous ; sides of body covered with whitish down. 



The young bird from which this description is taken has no 

 exact locality. 



BveediiKj-season. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Nest. "A small hollow in the ^^Tound amono" the grass" 

 (Scliomhurgk). 



Eygs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Aunai {l\ hitelg) ; Quonga {Brown). 



Extralimital Range. North Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, 

 CV^itral America to Mexico. 



Bahits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 749) 

 this bird is found in the grass on the Savannas singly and in 

 pairs. It lives chiefly on the ground and can run very swiftly ; 

 it flies only for a short distance and then repeats its running. Its 

 food consists of insects, small lizards, frogs, etc. The nest is 

 formed by a snudl hollow in the ground among the grass. The 

 " Macusis" call it Warate and the " Areknnas ^^ Korrere. 



Mr. Barrington Brown (Canoe and Camp Life, p. 142) writes: — 

 "A large Stilt-legged I'lover, a))out the size of a large Curlew, 

 called Corobara (jEdirnemiis rocifer), which was quite tame, 

 running about the houses. It made a most singular, chattering 

 cry, both in the e\ ening and just before daylight in the morning." 



