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more heavily marked than the first set. The nest was located in a 

 locality exactly similar to that last described. 



From this material it would seem that two eggs is the normal 

 clutch for this species. The three nests are very similar to one another. 



Taeniotriccus ANDREI Bcrlcpsch & Hartert. 

 Taeniotriccus andrei Berlepsch & Hartert, Novit. Zool. IX. 1902. p. 38. 



(Type, La Pricion, Caura River, Venezuela, Tring Museum). 



The type of this species, collected by Mr. Andre is, I believe, unique.' 

 The_ specimen, now in the Tring Museum, was taken at La Pricion, on 

 the Caura River, February 18, 1901. 



Perissotriccus Ecaudatus (Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny). 



Todirostnnn ecandatiim Lafr. & D'Orb. in Mag. Zool. VIL 1837. p. 47 

 (Yuracares. Bolivia). 



Or chillis ecaudatus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 39 (Munduapo, Upper Ori- 

 noco and Suapure on the Caura River, Venezuela). 



Perissotriccus ecaudatus Oberholser, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1902, 

 p. 64. 

 Only a single specimen of this species has been taken by the writer 



in the Orinoco region. An adult male was taken at Munduapo on the 



upper Orinoco, March 15, 1899, and Klages collected an example at 



Suapure on the Caura River. Colors of the fresh bird were, eye sepia 



brown; bill black; feet mouse grey. 



Ataeotriccus . PILARIS venezuelEnsis Ridgway. 

 Colopteryx pilaris Cab.; Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 39. (Points on the 



Orinoco, Ciudad Bolivar, Altagracia, Caicara, Quiribana de Caicara, 



Maipures.) 

 Atalotriccus pilaris venezuelensis Ridgw., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIX. 



1906. p. 115. 



Common in the thickly wooded areas along the river banks from 

 Ciudad Bolivar to above the falls of Maipures. 



Adults have the eye straw yellow; bill blackish with pale edges and 

 extreme basal part of the mandible pale; feet cinerous gray. 



Colopteryx galEatus (Boddaert). 

 Motacilla galeata Bodd., Tab. PI. Enl. 1783. p. 24. 

 Colopteryx galeatus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 39. 



