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BIRDS FROM MARGARITA— ROBINSON. 



VOL. XVIII. 



Family DENDROCOLAPTID.E. 



55. DENDROPLEX LONGIROSTRIS, new species. 

 MARGAKITAN TKEE CREEPER. 



Abuudant in all i>arts of the island. Their nests are constructed in 

 the post cacti. 



[ T//i;e.— Male adult, :J^o. 151701, U.S.X.M.; Margarita, July 1, 1895; 

 Wirt Robiuson; collector's No. 371. Similar to Dendroplev pieirostris, 

 but with longer bill and shorter tail; feathers of throat, foreueck, sides 

 of head and superciliary line uniform l)utfy white, without darker edg- 

 ings; light ceuters of feathers of lower breast twice as broad as in pici- 

 rostri.s. Wing, 3.88; tail, 2.97; tarsus, 0.87; exposed culmen, 1.20 inches. 

 "Legs pale brownish green; irides brown." 



The two specimens, male and female, represented in this collection 

 have been compared with a National Museum Sj)ecimen from Cartagena, 

 and one from Bogota loaned by tlie Ajuerican Museum. The last is 

 labeU'd '"compared with type," and found to be "typical." Measure- 

 ments of the four specimens are given below: 



Meatiiircmeuts of DendropJiX pieirostris and 1>. loiKjirostris. 



Museum. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



U.S.N.M ... Adult j Cartagena 



Am. Mus do j Bogotil 



U.S.N.M ... Male adnlt Margarita 



no Female adult do 



0. W. R.] 

 Family FURNARIID^. 



56. SYNALLAXIS ALBESCENS, Temminck. 

 WHITE-THKOATED SPINE-TAIL. 



Common in the scrub, l)ut none seen in the forest land. 



[Three specimens collected on ^largarita ap})ear to differ from vari- 

 ous continental examples in having tlie throat and under parts imrer 

 white, under tail-coverts paler, shoulders and wing-coverts pale. Trini- 

 dad birds are pretty close to the Margaritan ones. — C. W. P ' 



Family ICTERID.E. 



57. ICTERUS ICTERUS i Linnaeus). 

 TROUPIAL. 



Native name "trupial" or "tropial," from its note. 

 These conspicuous and loud-voiced birds were abundant in the coast 

 region, where they fed on the fruit of the cardon. 



