220 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



Platytriccus mystaceus insularis (Allen). 



Platyrhynchus insularis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., II 1889. p. 



143 (Type, Tobago). 

 Platyrhynchus mystaceus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 37 (Caicara on the 



Orinoco and La Pricion on the Caura River). 

 Platyrhynchus mystaceus insularis Hellmayr, Novit. ZooL, XIII, 1906, 



p. 22 (Caicara, Orinoco). 

 Platytriccus insularis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVIII, 1905, p. 



211. 



]\Tr. Hellmayr in his paper on the Birds of Trinidad^ considered 

 the birds from the Orinoco (Caicara). as intermediate between the 

 typical mystaceus and mystaceus insularis, but the series in this Museum 

 and that of the American Museum does not confirm that opinion. I am 

 unable to find any differences between birds from Caicara (on the 

 upper river), or birds from Las Barrancas (in the delta region), and 

 birds from Trinidad. 



Adult birds have the eye seal brown ; bill, maxilla black, and 

 mandible pinkish flesh color; feet delicate greyish flesh white, claws 

 greyish white. In an immature male taken at Las Barrancas August 3, 

 1907, both mandible and maxilla are blackish. 



This little flycatcher frequents the undergrowth in heavily wooded 

 districts. 



Platytriccus saturatus (Salvin & Godman). 

 Platyrhynchus saturatus Salv. & Godm., Ibis. 1882. p. 78; Berlepsch & 



Hartert, p. 37. 



On the writer's first expedition to the Orinoco, a single specimen 

 was collected at Nericagua above the falls of Maipures ; this and 

 specimens collected by Andre at La Pricion on the Caura, were 

 recorded by Berlepsch and Hartert (/. c). 



Todirostrum cinereum cinereum (Linnaeus). 

 Todus cincreus L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12. I. 1766. p. 178. 

 Todirostrum cinereum. Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 37. 



Common, frequenting second growth clearings, and the thickets and 

 low trees on the borders of open savannas. 



Adults have the eye straw yellow ; bill black above, whitish below ; 

 feet plumbeous. 



iNovit. Zool. XIII. 1006. p. 22. 



