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these may now be added Monagas and Anzodtcgui, indicating a wide 

 Venezuelan spread of the species. 



The November specimen was taken from a flock of about 10 birds 

 found at the edge of a large savanna pond. The March specimen was 

 collected at a small semiwooded swamp, where a pair of the resident 

 race, paraguayiae, was found, apparently having bred in April and 

 May of the previous year. Snipe are not common within the area; 

 they were recorded during March, April, May, July, and November, 

 but it is possible that the April/May birds were the breeding sub- 

 species. The note of both the April and the November birds was 

 apparently the same, a rasping reeep-reeep. 



Local name, "becasina." 



EREUNETES PUSILLUS (Linnaeus) 



Tringa pusilla Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 252 (Santo 

 Domingo) . 



SPECIMEN COLLECTED 



1 ? , Caicara, September 12, 1948; gonads small; iris black, bill and feet black. 

 The specimen is in fresh plumage; its exposed culmen measures 

 19 mm. 



EROUA MINUTILLA (VieUlot) 



Tringa minutUla Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., vol. 34, 1819, p. 466 ("Am6ri- 

 que jusqu'^del^ du Canada"; restricted type locality, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 

 apud A. O. U. Check-List, ed. 4, 1931, p. 120). 



SPECIMENS COLLECTED 



1 9 , Cantaura, October 25, 1947; gonads small; bill black, feet dull blue-gray; 

 gizzard contained small insects. 



1 ? , Barcelona, October 12, 1948; gonads small; iris brown; bill black, feet 

 rather pale olive. 



The Cantaura specimen has a shorter bill than the one from Barce- 

 lona, but both may be matched in a large series of North American 

 birds. 



EROUA FUSCICOLUS (Vieillot) 



Tringa fuscicollis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., vol. 34, 1819, p. 461 (Para- 

 guay, ex Azara, No. 404) . 



specimen collected 



1 ? , Cantaura, October 25, 1947; gonads small; iris brown, feet black, bill dark 

 brown; gizzard contained small insects. When collected the specimen was molting 

 from summer into winter plumage on the back. 



The white-rumped sandpiper has been recorded from a number of 

 localities in Venezuela by different observers and appears to be a 

 fairly regular migrant there. It was an uncommon but regular 

 migrant in the area, being recorded at the savanna ponds during the 



