﻿VENEZUELAN ORNITHOLOGY — FRIEDMANN AND SMITH 533 



until the middle of April, when several were seen daily for about a 

 week, after which it was rarely seen. The call note is a sharp, loud 

 chi'p, 



HEMITHRAUPIS GUIRA NIGRIGULA (Boddaert) 



Tanagra nigrigula Boddaert, Table des planches enlumin^ez, 1783, p. 45 (based on 

 "Tangara olive h. gorge noire, de Cayenne" Daubenton: Cayenne). 



SPECIMEN COLLECTED 



1 cT, Cantaura, April 8, 1945; gonads very small; iris brown. 



The bird collected had apparently lost its rectrices sometime earHer 

 and the new ones were still in the pinfeather stage, and were lost in the 

 process of preparing the specimen. Fortunately, however, the char- 

 acters of the race are not in the tail feathers, and our bird agrees very 

 well with nigrigula, both by description and by comparison with named 

 material. 



The species was found at the woods edge. 



Family FRINGILLIDAE: Finches, Sparrows, and Buntings 



SALTATOR COERULESCENS BREWSTERI Bangs and Penard 



Saltaior olivascens hreivsteri Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 42, 

 1918, p. 91 (Caparo, Trinidad). 



SPECIMENS COLLECTED 



2 9 , Caicara, December 22-27, 1945; gonads not enlarged; iris brown. 



The specimen obtained December 27 is in molt, but it matches 

 another similar bird from near El Sombrero. The other one is an 

 immature greenish-backed bird, very different in appearance from 

 the gray-backed adult. 



Seeds and fruit pulp were found in the gizzard of the adult. 



This species was common at the edge of the wet woods around 

 Caicara; it was not present around Cantaura. The only note recorded 

 was a short song, which might be written crrrr, cheechu, cheechu, 

 cheechu, the cheechu slurring from a high chee to a low chee. 

 Although similar to the song of the following species, that of the 

 present one was readily distinguishable. 



SALTATOR ORENOCENSIS ORENOCENSIS Lafresnaye 



Saltaior orenocensis Lafresnate, Rev. Zool., vol. 9, 1846, p. 274 ("remboucbure 

 de rOr^noque," Venezuela). 



SPECIMEN COLLECTED 



1 cf, Caicara, December 23, 1945; gonads not enlarged; iris brown. 



This example has the underparts unusually heavily suffused with 

 tawny-rufescent, almost as in rufescens Todd, of northwestern Vene- 



