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(Totanus melanoleucus) . Rendered vocally, the call is a series of sepa- 

 rate notes, whee, whoo, whee, whoo. 



Pluvialis dominica dominica (P. L. S. Miillcr) 



Charadrius Dominicus P. L. S. MuUer, Natursystem, Suppl., 1776, p. 116 (His- 

 paniola) . 



No additional specimens were taken, but further observations ex- 

 tend our knowledge of this migrant plover. Extreme dates recorded 

 for the golden plover were September 18 and December 5. The form 

 was seemingly rare at the seacoast, perhaps due to the collector's 

 limited time there, but common at the savanna ponds and burnt-over 

 areas on the savanna. For the past 3 years these birds have taken 

 to feeding at night on the well-watered lawns of the oil company 

 camps at Anaco, Anzoategui. Their presence would have passed un- 

 noticed were it not for their startlingly loud queedelee whistle. 



Squatarola squatarola (Linnaeus) 



Tringa Squatarola Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 149 (Europe, 

 restricted type locality Sweden). 

 1 9, Barcelona, February 20, 1950; gonads small; iris dark; feet blue gray; 

 bird not fat. 



The black-bellied plover was recorded only at the coast, and there 

 in small flocks of four or five individuals. 



Family Scolopacidae: Sandpipers, Curlews, Godwits 



Bartraniia longicauda (Bechstein) 



Tringa longicauda Bechstein, in Latham, AUgemeine Uebersicht der Vogel, vol. 

 4, pt. 2, 1912, p. 453 (North America). 



Because of the paucity of Venezuelan data, the following ex- 

 pansion of our earlier notes may be recorded. Extreme dates for the 

 upland plover are September 11 to October 17 and (rarer) March 25 

 to April 2. In September the bird is quite common on the lawns of 

 the oil company camps at Anaco. 



Capella gallinago delicata (Ord) 



Scolopax delicata Ord, in Wilson, American ornithology, vol. 9, 1825, p. ccxviii, 

 reprint (Pennsj^lvania) . 



In our 1950 report we indicated a wide spread of this species in 

 Venezuela. The collector's subsequent field observations deal not as 

 much with distributional occurrences as with slight but generally 

 overlooked details of habits, based on a captive bird. At Anaco, on 

 October 12, 1952, a slightly wounded snipe was brought in to him. 

 He identified it as delicata by measuring the bill, wing, and outer 

 rectrices : 



