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108. CocMearius coclileariiis. 

 Boat-bill. 



Coclileariv.s coclilearius Linn. Srst. Xat. p. 233, 17(56 (Guiana) ; 

 Braboiu'ne <t Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 50, no. -473, 1912. 



Cancroma coclilearia Cab. in Sc-homb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. loo, 1S4S ; 

 Bro'svn, Canoe and Camp Life, p. 2.57, 1S76 (Rupununi Eiver) ; 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1SS6, p. 171: Quelch, Timehri (2) ii. p. 3(37. ISSS 

 (Abaiy Kiver) ; Lloyd, op. cit. xi. p. 9. 1S97 ; Sharpe. Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxvi. p. 163, 1S98 (Takutu River, Cariniang River) ; Beebe, 

 Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 231, 1910 (Marooka). 



" Quaaks " {QuelclC). " Waliaba bird " (Broicn). 



Adult male. Hind-neck. back, -wings, and tail filvtry grer ; fore- 

 head, throat, breast, and thighs \\ hite, or creamy-\^ hire ; top of head 

 sides of body, and under wing-coverts slaty black ; m'ddle of 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts rufous. 



Total lenoth 525 mm., culmen <S2. width of bill 39, wino- 2?0, 

 tail 131, tarsus 78, middle toe and claw 67. 



The description of the male is taken from a specimen obtained 

 on the Abary Kiver in September 1907. 



AdvJt female. Similar to the male in colour but apparently 

 sliohtlv smaller. Wing 285 mm. 



The young of this species differ from the adult in being- 

 cinnamon rufous above, except the head which is black, and buffy 

 white below. 



Breeding-season. " March "" ( C A. Lloi/d). 



JSest. Lnrecorded in British Guiana. 



Kggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Gtiiana. Upper Takutu Mountains, Ituribisi 

 Eiver, Bonasiku River, Abary River {MvConnell collection) ; 

 Riipununi River (Brown) ; I'akutu River, Kamarang River, 

 Ourunei {^^Jdtel(/) ; Marooka (Bethe). 



J'J.dralimital Range. Trinidad, Venezuela. Colombia, Ecuador, 

 Peru, Brazil. 



Habits. Tills bird, according to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. 

 p. 755), is found solitary iu the dense swampy woods in the 

 neighbourhood of small rivers. He found it sitting on a tree near 

 a brook, and this was the only one tliat he mot with. No doubt it 

 hides itself in its dense favourite haunts. With its lull it produces 

 a noise very much like that of the White Stork of Europe {Ciconia 

 ricoiiia) ; this he obscrNed in a winged bird kept in confinement by 



