BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 383 
An alcoholic specimen was made of a bird taken near Durumutoni, 
Brazo Casiquiare, Venezuela, February 19, 1931. 
NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX HOACTLI (Gmelin): Black-crowned Night Heron 
Ardea hoactli GMELIN, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 630 (“In Novae 
Hispaniae lacubus” = Valley of Mexico). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
lim. o', Venezuela, Ciudad Bolfvar, June 8, 1931. 
The specimen, although labeled “adult”? by the collectors, is ob- 
viously a young bird in the streaked brown and white plumage. 
TIGRISOMA LINEATUM LINEATUM (Boddaert): Northern Tiger Bittern 
Ardea lineata Bopparrt, Table des planches enluminéez ..., 1783, p. 52 
(Cayenne). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. o&, lad. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, April 2-9, 1931. 
This heron occurs throughout the regions collected over by the 
expedition, but apparently it is not common anywhere. The two 
examples obtained are in fairly fresh plumage. 
Family COCHLEARIIDAE: Boat-billed Herons 
COCHLEARIUS COCHLEARIUS COCHLEARIUS (Linnaeus): South American Boat-billed Heron 
Cancroma cochlearia LinnaBus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 233 
(Guiana). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
lad. 9, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, Playa de Candela, February 8, 1931. 
A specimen in fairly worn plumage. 
Family CICONIIDAE: Storks, Jabirus 
JABIRU MYCTERIA (Lichtenstein): Jabiru 
Ciconia mycteria LicaTENSTEIN, Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.), 1816-17 
(1819), p. 163 (Brazil). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
1 skull, Ciudad Bolfvar, Venezuela, 1931. 
This skull was picked up at Ciudad Bolivar and may not even have 
been of a bird killed at that spot. 
Family THRESKIORNITHIDAE: Ibises 
MESEMBRINIBIS CAYENNENSIS (Gmelin): Cayenne Ibis 
Tantalus cayennensis GMELIN, Systema naturae, vol. 1, 1789, p. 652 (Cayenne). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lim. 9, Brazil, Rio Cauabury, Cachoeira Destacamento, October 29, 1930. 
1 ad. @, Brazil, Rio Cauabury, below Cachoeira Thomaz, November 2, 1930. 
