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This sandpiper is a common migrant within the study area, being 

 found in twos and threes by almost any body of water located in the 

 woods. It was rarely encountered on the savanna. It was recorded 

 in the area during February through May and from July through 

 December. 



Local name, "tingiiin," 



ARENARIA INTERPRES MORINELLA (Linnaeus) 



Tringa Morinella Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 249 (sea coast of 

 North America; Europe; restricted type locality, coast of Georgia, ex Catesby). 



SPECIMEN COLLECTED 



1 unsexed, Barcelona, October 12, 1948; iris dark, bill dark brown, feet dull orange, 

 nails black; signs of active molting. 



This species was never recorded within the study area; apparently 

 it migrates along the coast in this general region. 



UMNODROMUS GRISEUS GRISEUS (Gmelin) 



Scolopax grisea Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 658 (shores of 

 New York, Long Island.) 



specimen collected 



1 9 , Barcelona, October 10, 1948; gonads small; iris dark, bill dull olive, darker 

 at the tip, feet olive; gizzard contained a flatworm; bird fat. 



This specimen, in worn plumage, has a biU length of 58 mm., 

 which indicates that it belongs to this form. It is molting out of Juve- 

 nal into first winter plumage, but in spite of this it agrees very well in 

 coloration with examples critically identified as griseus by Dr. J. W. 

 Aldrich. 



We have not come across any previous records for this bird from 

 Venezuela, but its occurrence there as a migrant is not surprising, as 

 it was known from Trinidad, the Guianas, and eastern Brazil. The 

 species was never recorded within the study area as such; apparently 

 it migrates along the coast in this general region. 



CAPELLA GALUNAGO DEUCATA (Ord) 



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

 reprint (Pennsylvania) . 



specimens collected 



IcT, about 10 km. south of Urica, November 4, 1948; gonads small; iris light 

 brown, bill light brown, darker at tip, feet light green. 



19, Cantaura, March 10, 1949; gonads slightly enlarged; skull well ossified; 

 iris brown, feet dull green; bird not fat. 



Hellmayr and Conover (Catalogue of the birds of the Americas, pt. 

 1, No. 3, 1948, p. 149) state that the Wilson's snipe is known as a winter 

 visitor in Venezuela in the states of Tdchira, Merida, and Zulia. To 



