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having been taken up to 10,000 feet on the Cerro de Caracas. This 

 would seem to be unusual, and probably 7,000 feet is the ordinary 

 maximum altitude for the species. It is a very tame bird, and easily 

 approached, always occurring in pairs. It is partial to the open spots 

 in the forest or along roadsides, where a perch is selected command- 

 ing a bit of open, from which the bird darts out at passing insects in 

 the typical manner of flycatchers. 



310. Terenotriccus erythrurus fulvigularis (Salvin and God man). 



Myiobius erythrurus (not of Cabanis) Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XIII, 1900, 144 (Jordan). ♦ 



Five specimens : Don Diego and Mamatoco. 



One specimen was taken in the woodland along Tamocal Creek, be- 

 tween Mamatoco and La Tigrera, while two were secured in the 

 heavy forest at Don Diego. There are also two specimens sent in by 

 Mr. Smith from this latter locality in the collection of the Carnegie 

 Museum. According to the writer's previous experience with this 

 bird, it is partial to very humid, dense forest, and such conditions not 

 existing here (at least at low altitudes) it is consequently very scarce. 



311. Pyrocephalus rubinus saturatus von Berlepsch and.Hartert. 



Pyrocephahts rubineus (not Muscicapa rubinus Boddaert) Salvin and God- 

 man, Ibis, 1879, 202 (Valle de Upar ; crit.) ; 1880, 125 (Valencia). — 

 Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 211 (Valle de Upar and Valen- 

 cia). 



Pyrocephalus rubinus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 144 

 (Salvin and Godman's references). 



Pyrocephalus rubinus heterurus (not of von Berlepsch and Stolzmann) Ridg- 

 WAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, IV, 1907, 473, part (Santa Marta 

 references). 



Fourteen specimens : Dibulla and Rio Hacha. 



Mr. Ridgway (without of course seeing specimens) has referred the 

 only previous records for Pyrocephalus for this region to P. rubinus 

 heterurus, but this proves to be a mistake. The present series agree 

 exactly with birds from the Orinoco, and show no approach to heterurus. 

 This considerably extends the known range of saturatus. 



The Vermilion Flycatcher is primarily an inhabitant of the open 

 plains or savanna regions, such as abound on the south and east sides 

 of the Sierra Nevada. Both Simons and the writer have found it at 

 Valencia, on the south side, from which it doubtless extends continu- 



