300 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



Not uncommon at Caicara. Three males and one female were 

 taken during June, 1907. One only taken on my first expedition. 

 Eye dark seal ; bill black ; feet blackish. 



PoLEMisTRiA VERREAUXI KLAGESi (Bcrlepsch & Hartcrt). 

 Lophornis verreanxi klagesi Berlepsch & Hartert, Novit. Zool. X. 1902. 



p. 89 (Type, ex Suapure, Caura River, Venezuela). 



Not observed on the Orinoco proper, but recorded by Berlepsch 

 and Hartert from Suapure and from La Pricion on the Caura River. 



DiscosuRA LONGiCAUDA (Gmeliu). 

 Trochilus longicaudiis Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 17S8. p. 498. 

 Discosura longicauda Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 89. 



A single female was taken at Nericagua in April, 1899. ^^^ 

 observed elsewhere. 



CAPRIMULGIDAE^GOATSUCKERS. NIGHTHAWKS AND 

 WHIP-POOR-WILLS. 

 Five -species are included in the Berlepsch and Hartert paper, each 

 of which is abundant throughout the region. 



Thermochalcis^ cayennensis insularis (-Richmond). 

 Caprimulgus cayennensis Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 103 1. 

 Stenopsis cayennensis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 89. 

 Stenopsis cayennensis ijisularis Richmond, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XV : 



1902: 159 (Curacao). 

 S[tenopsis] c\ayeniiensis] insularis Ridgway, Birds N. & M. Am. VI: 



1914: 501 (Rio Caura, Venez.). 

 Stenopsis cayennensis moiiticola Chapman, Bull. A. M. N..H. XXXIII: 



1914: 173. (Maripa, Rio Caura, Ven.) 



Common in the neighborhood of Altagracia, Caicara and Quiri- 

 bana de Caicara. During the day time they frequent the thickets that 

 border the heavily wooded areas, where they may be seen resting on the 

 ground (usually) or on low horizontal branches. 



A nest with two fresh eggs was found at Caicara, May 8, 1905. 

 The nest was a slight hollow in the bare ground of an open field. The 

 eggs are elliptical-ovate in form and measure 17.6 x 24.6 and 17.5x23.7 



'Richmond Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XXVIII: 1915: 180. 



