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Inasmuch as the best descriptions of the area are to be found in 

 geological literature relatively unfamiliar to ornithologists, the follow- 

 ing short selected bibliography is here presented: 



FuNKHOUSER, H. J., Sass, L. C, and Hedberg, H. D. 



1948. Santa Ana, San Joaquin, Guario, and Santa Rosa Oil Fields (Anaco 

 Fields), Central Anzoategui, Venezuela. Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petro- 

 leum Geologists, vol. 32, p. 1851. 

 Hedberg, Hollis D., and Pyre, Augustin. 



1944. Stratigraphy of northeastern Anzoategui, Venezuela, Bull. Amer. 

 Assoc. Petroleum Geologists, vol. 28, p. 1. 

 Hedberg, H. D., Sass, L. C., and Funkhouser, H. J. 



1947. Oil fields of Greater Oficina area. Central Anzoategui, Venezuela. 

 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists, vol. 31, p. 2089. 

 Oramas, Luis. 



1947. Los caribes invasores del territorio aut6ctono Aruaco. Mem. Soc. 

 Cienc. Nat. La Salle (Caracas), ano 7, No. 20. 



The accounts of the species and subspecies of birds reported on in 

 the body of this paper are all based on specimens collected. In addi- 

 tion, there were five other kinds that were unmistakably observed in 

 the field although no examples were procured; they are: 



Jabiru mycteria (Lichtenstein) : Jabirus were seen, one at a time, on the open 

 savanna at Cantaura in May and October. 



Sacroramphus papa (Linnaeus) : In the deciduous lowland forest at Caicara in 

 November and January, five or six king vultures were seen, their striking colora- 

 tion immediately proclaiming their identity. 



Pandion haliaetus carolinensis (Gmelin) : One osprey was seen at Cantaura on 

 October 12, 1947. 



Squatarola squatarola (Linnaeus) : Four or five black-bellied plovers were seen 

 at the seacoast near Barcelona in October. 



Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus: A killdeer was seen once in January in the open 

 savanna near Cantaura. Being familir with this bird in North America, the junior 

 author has no doubt as to its identification. Hellmayr and Conover (Catalogue 

 of the birds of the Americas, pt. 1, 1948, p. 68) give no Venezuelan records for the 

 killdeer, but it has been found in that country prior to this sight record. 



This report would have been less complete had it not been for the 

 kindly interest and assistance given the junior author in the field by 

 the local staffs of three oil companies, the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. of 

 Venezuela (with which the junior author is affiliated), the Mene 

 Grande Oil Co., and the Creole Petroleum Corp. They supplied most 

 of the weather data and other information about the area. 



In studying the collections after their arrival in Washington, the 

 senior author was given prompt assistance in the identification of 

 botanical items mentioned in this report by the staff of the depart- 

 ment of botany of the United States National Museum. Dr. John T. 

 Zimmer, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 

 aided in identifying an obscurely marked immature flycatcher that 

 could not be matched with the collections in Washington. 



