420 BIRDS OF BEITISH QUIANA. 



614, Notioeorys abariensls. 



Abaet River Pipit. 



Notioeorys lutescens (nee Less.) Baird, Rev. Amer. B. p. 15, 1864. 

 Anthus rufus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 202 (Merum6 Mts., Eoraima, 



3500 ft.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 606, 1885 (Merume Mts., 



Eoraima). 

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



Gruiana). 

 Anthus hiteseens (nee Less.) ; Braboume & Chubb, B- S. Amer. i. 



p. 361, no. 3696, 1912. 

 Woticorys dbariensis Chubb, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, xli. p. 79, Feb. 



1921 (Abary Eiver). 



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 

 iniddle-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 1906. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female described but rather 

 larger. Wing 64 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana, 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



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

 Mount Roraima, Merume Mountains ( Whiteli/). 



Extralimital Range. Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, 

 Argentina, 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana, 



