420 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



614. Notiocorys abariensis. 



Abary River Pipit. 



Notiocorys hdescens (nee Less.) Baircl, llev. Amcr. B. p. 15, 1864. 

 Antlnts rufns Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 202 (Merume Mts., Koraima, 



3500 ft.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. GOG, 1885 (Merume Mts., 



Koraima). 

 An thus lutescens subsp. Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 307, 1906 (British 



Guiana). 

 Anthus lutescens (nee Less.) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



p. 361, no. 3696, 1912. 

 Noticorys ahariensis Chubb, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, xli. p. 79, Feb. 



1921 (Abary Kiver). 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface blackish 

 brown with tawny margins to the feathers including the head, 

 back, wings, and tail ; flight-quills hair-brown on the inner webs 

 with whitish edgings : the two outer tail-feathers on each side for 

 the greater part white with more or less brown on the inner webs ; 

 sides of the face paler than the crown ; throat and entire under 

 surface yellowish white tinged with pale tawny on the breast and 

 under wing-coverts, the feathers on the fore-neck and breast have 

 dark shaft-streaks ; under surface of flight-quills greyish brown 

 with paler edgings ; lower aspect of tail greyish brown on the 

 middle-feathers and white on the outer ones. 



Total length 119 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 57, tail 42, 

 tarsus 21. 



The specimen from which the description is taken was collected 

 on the Abary River in November 190G. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female described but rather 

 larger. Wing G4 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Kest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



E<j(js. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Abary River (McComiell collection) ; 

 Mount Roraima, Merume Mountains ( Wldtely). 



ExLral'imital Range. Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, 

 Argentina. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



