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species. The specimen is a male and was taken September 26, 1901. 

 The throat and anterior part of the malar region is ochraceous buff, 

 but with many of the feathers tipped with blackish. 



CONOPOPHAGIDAE— THE GNATEATERS. 

 Only a single species of those pertaining to this family has been 

 recorded from the Orinoco region. 



CoRYTHOPis TORQUATA ANTHOiDES (Pucheran). 

 Muscicapa anthoidcs Pucheran (ex Cuvier), Arch, du Mus. Par. VII 



(1855). P- 334- 

 Coryt/iopis anthoidcs Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 80. 



Rare; one specimen taken at Nericagua. There is a single speci- 

 men in the American Aluseum (Klages collection) from La Union on 

 the Caura River — a female collected September 26, 1901. 



TROCHILIDAE— THE HUMMINGBIRDS. 



I was disappointed in the number of species of hummingbirds 

 met with on the Orinoco River. Only twenty-eight were included in 

 Berlepsch and Hartert's paper, twenty-two of which number were 

 collected on the Orinoco proper by the writer, the remaining six were 

 from the Caura River collected by Klages or Andre. 



While the number of species secured was a disappointment, it is 

 perhaps not remarkable when considered in connection with the fact 

 that we devoted the greater part of our time to the more or less 

 open savanna regions bordering the middle stretches of the Orinoco — 

 a region of low altitude, characterized by great stretches of open or 

 sparsely wooded savannas, and little variety in the vegetation. 



Glaucis hirsuta hirsuta (Gmelin). 

 Trochihts hirsuttis Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 490. 

 Glaucis hirsuta Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 80. 

 One taken at Munduapo. 



PhoEThornis AFEiNis AFEiNis Pelzeln^ 

 Phactornis atfinis Pelz., Sitz. Akad. Wien, XX. 1856. p. 157. 

 Phacthornis supcrciliosus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 80. 



Common on the upper river at Munduapo and Nericagua. 



'See Hellmayr's remarks regarding the use of this name: Novit. Zool. XIII. 1906. p. 374. 



