26o BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



Synallaxis gujanensis gujanensis (Gmelin). 



MotaciUa gujanensis Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 988. 

 Synallaxis giiianensis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 59. 



This species was not observed on my earlier expeditions, but in 

 July, 1907, two adult males were collected at Las Barrancas in the 

 delta region. 



In the American Museum there is an adult female collected by 

 Klages at La Union on the Caura River, Sept. 26, 1901. 



Eye dusky brown ; bill above black, below slate grey ; feet grey. 



The Tring Museum received specimens from La Pricion on the 

 Caura River. 



Synallaxis rutilans Temminck. 



Synallaxis rutilans Temm., PI. Col. 1823. p. 227; Berlepsch & Hartert, 



p. 60. 



Seen only on the upper river above the falls of Maipures, at 

 Nericagua. Klages and Andre both collected specimens on the 

 Caura River (Suapure, La Pricion, Nicare and La Union) that were 

 sent to the Tring Museum. There are two females in the American 

 Museum collected by Klages at Suapure on the Caura River, one in 

 September, the other in February. 



SiPTORNIS VULPINA ALOPECIAS (Pclzeln). 



Synallaxis alopecias Pelz., Sitz. Akad. Wien, XXXIV. 1859. p. 10 1. 

 Synallaxis vulpina alopecias Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 59. 



Common at Ciudad Bolivar and at all points visited along the 

 Orinoco up to and beyond the falls of Maipures. It frequents the 

 thickets bordering streams and ponds. 



Adults have the eye vandyke brown ; bill dark brown above, lilac 

 grey below ; feet sage green. 



A nest and two fresh eggs were collected at Caicara July 2, 1907. 

 One egg of the set was accidentally crushed, the remaining Q.gg is 

 pure, dull white, ovate in form and measures 20x15.5 mm. Three 

 weeks prior to the collecting of the eggs and nest a pair of Fox-red 

 Spine-tails were observed hovering about what appeared to be a mass 

 of drift grass that had lodged between the forks at the top of a slender 



