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Altagracia : 3 <?c? ad. 12. xi., 11. xii., c?c? ad. 27. xi., 2, 8. xii. '07, ? ? 27. xii. 

 '97, ? 30. xi., S juv. 30. xi. 



Caicara : " (? " ad. 26. iii. '98. " Iris seal-brown (or dusky) ; feet and liill 

 black." 



(Nos. 8451, 8471, 8493, 8.514, 8592, 8609, 86G9, 8755, 8803, 8804, 8822, 8867, 

 8899, 8900, 8940, 8972, 9093, 9161, 9399, 10572 Cherrie coll.) 



Cindad Bolivar : 3 c?t? 3. xii., 9. xii., ? 29. ix. 



Snapure : tj 6. xii. (Klages). 



La Pricion, Canra : <S ? December 1900 (Andre). 



We have compared onr specimens, among others, with a male from Yqiiitos, 

 Amazon snp. (Whitely) in Mas. H. v. B., which might be regarded as being from 

 typical locality. The Venezuela skins are easily to be distinguished by having mnch 

 shorter wings and tail, and by the upper parts of the body, including wing and tail 

 and the sides of the head, being much darker, nearly black instead of pale brown, 

 and the under wing-coverts being blackish instead of greyish brown. But the 

 colour-differences are only to be observed iu the old males, while young males and 

 females of the two forms are merely to be distinguished by the size of the wings 

 and tail. 



An old male from Puerto (Jal)ello in Mus. H. v. B. agrees in every respect with 

 the Orinoco specimens, and so does a series from Clumana in Triug.* 



121. Ochthornis littoralis (Pelz.). 



Elaima littnralU Pelz., Oru. Bras. (18G8) pp. 108, 180 (Rio Mamore, Madeu'a). 



Bichaco : " ? " ad. 18. ix. '98. "Iris light seal-brown ; feet and bill black" 

 (no. 11173). Al. 69J, caud. 53i, culm. 12A, tars. 16i mm. 



Suapure : t? ? 3. viii., ? 2. ix. (Klages). 



La Pricion: Jc? 12. ii. 1901. 



Nicare : ? 20. i. lOUl (E. Andre). 



122. Sisopygis icterophrys fVieill.). 



Miisck-apa icternphrys Vieill., Nour. Did. xii. (1817) p. 458 (Paraguay— e.ic Azara). 



Altagracia: ¥ 19. xi. (no. 8736 Cherrie coll.). The single specimen is rather 

 pale. 



123. Cnipolegus orenocensis Berl. 



Cnipiikgus orenocensis Berl., Ibis 1884 p. 433, pi. XII. (ex Angostura). 



Altagracia: SS 1,9, 16, IS. xii., 3, 10, 21, 29. i., ? ? 1, 7,4, 11, 16. xii. "97.; 

 10. i., 14. iii. '98. 



Caicara : S 1. iii. '98, " ? " 14. iii. '98 (" breeding"). 



Capuchin : i 21. viii. " Iris seal ; feet black ; bill plumbeous black at top." 



(Nos. 8950, 8959, 9069, 9118, 9156, 9246, 9247, 9287, 9478, 9611, 9612, 9760, 

 9899, 9900, 10328, 10484, 11141 Cherrie coll.) 



Mr. Cherrie sent us a large series of skins of this rare species, of which the 

 type in the Mus. H. v. B. hitherto has remained unique. 



The female differs from the male in the lighter, more greenish grey colour of 

 the upper and under parts of the body. 



• Berlepsch is of the opinion that Pijroeephalm is a Fluvicoline bird allieil to Arundinicola leueo- 

 mphaln, and not a true Tyrannide of the Mijiohiiis group, among which it has been placed by Dr. Sclater 

 and others. 



