VENEZUELAN ORNITHOLOGY — FRIEDMANN AND SMITH 513 



Family Turdidae: Thrushes 



Tardus fumigatus aquilonalis (Cherrie) 



Planesticus fumigatus aquilonalis Cherrie, Mus. Brooklyn Inst., Sci. Bull., vol. 

 1, 1909, p. 387 (heights of Aripo, Trinidad). 

 1, iinsexed, Caicara, November 16, 1952; skull well ossified; iris, feet, and 

 bill dark brown. Adult bird in somewhat worn plumage. 



Recorded only in the heavy woods along the Guarapiche River at 

 Caicara. The collector examined with binoculars every thrush he 

 saw in the hopes of collecting this form. Finally, hearing an unknown 

 rapidly repeated jwrenlike chickity-reckity-rik, he made a squeaking 

 noise; the bird flew up and was taken. Like many other forms {Ara 

 ararauna, and Myrmeciza longipes, for examples) this bird appears to be 

 at the very edge of its habitat at Caicara, presumably becoming more 

 common in the lowland seasonal forest toward Quiriquire and Caripito. 



Family Coerebidae: Honeycreepers 



Conirostrinn bicolor bicolor (Vieillot) 



Sylvia bicolorV ieillot, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de I'Amerique septentrionale, 

 vol. 2, 1807, p. 32, pi. 90 bis (Cayenne; suggested by Hellmayr, Catalogue 

 of the birds of America, pt. 8, 1935, p. 318). 

 1, unsexed, Barcelona, October 28, 1951. 



1, unsexed, Barcelona, January 26, 1952; iris russet; bill dark gray; feet flesh 

 color; gizzard contained fine seeds. 



This species was recorded only on the coast at Barcelona. 

 Family Parulidae: Wood Warblers 



Sciurus noveboracensis noveboracensis (Gmelin) 



Motacilla noveboracensis Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 958 

 (based on the New York warbler, Latham, General synopsis of birds, vol. 2, 

 pt. 2, p. 436). (In Louisiana, et Noveboraci sepibus = New York.) 

 1?, Caicara, December 15, 1952; gonads small; skull not well ossified; bird 

 thin, not fat; iris and bill brown; feet light brown. 



Judging by the olive tone of the upper parts, the amount of yellow 

 on the underparts, and the size of the specimen, our bird appears to 

 belong to the nominate subspecies. Both this form and the race 

 notabilis winter in Venezuela; the races are not distinguishable in 

 the field, and hence all that the collector can say is that the species 

 was recorded on the Guarapiche River at Caicara from December 

 through the first week of April. 



