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range in Brazil are not known. Hellmayr and Conover (Catalogue 
of the birds of the Americas, pt. 1, No. 1, 1942, pp. 590-591) write 
that it extends eastward to the Rio Purts. The present specimens. 
from the upper Rio Negro help fill in the gap between these accounts. 
and certainly are not different from the Upper Orinoco series, which, 
in turn, are clearly referable to the same race as the birds of the 
base of Mount Duida. 
The nominate form extends westward in northern Brazil only to 
the Rio Jamund4, as far as known, although in southeastern Vene- 
zuela it has been recorded from farther west—from Mount Roraima 
and Mount Auydn-tepui. Gilhard (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 
vol. 77, 1941, p. 463) includes, without any new evidence, the Upper 
Orinoco and “northern Brazil,’ but it seems likely that he would find 
on reexamination of his material that the birds of the Upper Orinoco 
and of adjacent parts of Brazil are not rufazilla but dubust. 
OREOPELIA MONTANA MONTANA (Linnaeus): Ruddy Quail-dove 
Columba montana LInNaAEUws, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 163 (Jamaica). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. o, Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, January 6, 1931. 
lad. 9, Venezuela, Chapazon, Brazo Casiquiare, January 30, 1931. 
1 ad. 6, Venezuela, Solano, Brazo Casiquiare, February 2, 1931. 
8 ad. o, 7 ad. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, March 31- 
April 28, 1931. 
A number of the Cerro Yapacana birds were in breeding condition 
when collected. 
It is not too well established that the race martinica is really valid, 
but the arrangement of Hellmayr and Conover (Catalogue of the 
birds of the Americas, pt. 1, No. 1, 1942, pp. 601-606) is here followed. 
It is true that in continental South America (and north to Mexico) 
there are no local subspecies of this wide-ranging pigeon. 
Family PSITTACIDAE: Parrots 
ARA ARARAUNA (Linnaeus): Blue and Yellow Macaw 
Psittacus ararauna LINNAEUS, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 98 (“South 
America,” Brazil). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
1 ad. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, March 18, 1931. 
The bird is in worn plumage. 
ARA MACAO (Linnaeus): Scarlet Macaw — 
Psittacus macao LinnaEvs, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 96 (“South 
America’’). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2 ad. 9, Venezuela, right bank Upper Orinoco, opposite Corocoro Island, 
March 16, 1931. 
