BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 419 
The unsexed bird is immature and was molting into adult plumage 
when collected. It is much paler below than the adult male, and 
also is smaller; it may be a female. 
As Gilliard has shown (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 77, 1941, 
p. 469) that this bird occurs north to Mount Auy4n-tepui in Venezuela; 
so far it seems not to have been recorded from the Mount Duida— 
Upper Orinoco region). i 
GLAUCIS HIRSUTA HIRSUTA (Gmelin): Hairy Hermit 
Trochilus hirsutus GMELIN, Systema naturae, vol. 1, 1788, p. 490 (Brazil). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
lim. 9, Venezuela, Upper Orinoco, near Cerro Cariche, February 24, 1931. 
The subspecific identification here used for this immature specimen 
is based on the usage of Pinto (Rev. Mus. Paulista, vol. 22, 1938, p. 
248) and Todd (Annals Carnegie Mus., vol. 29, 1942, p. 275). Cory 
(Catalogue of the birds of the Americas, pt. 2, No. 1, 1918, p. 152) 
refers specimens from our area to G. h. affinas. 
PHAETHORNIS SUPERCILIOSUS SUPERCILIOSUS (Linnaeus): Guiana Hermit 
Trochilus superciliosus LINNAEUS, Systema naturae, vol. 1, ed. 12, 1766, p. 189 
(‘‘Cayenne’’). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. @,1im. 9, Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, December 29, 1930-January 1, 
1931. 
lad. co, Venezuela, Raudal Corocoro, Brazo Casiquiare, February 9, 1931. 
4ad. #, 1 ad. 9, 1 im. -, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, March 
29—April 26, 1931. 
Two of the Cerro Yapacana birds were noted as being in breeding 
condition when collected. 
In the absence of adequate comparative material we accept Todd’s 
conclusion (Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 29, 1942, p. 278) that saturatior 
Simon, described from the Upper Orinoco, is not distinct from super- 
ciliosus. 
PHEATHORNIS BOURCIERI (Lesson): Bourcier’s Hermit 
Trochilus bourcieri Lesson, Les Trochilidae, 1832, p. 62, pl. 18 (“‘Bresil’’? = Rio 
Tapajéz, Griscom and Greenway, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 88, 1941, p. 
168). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 im. -—, Brazil, Rio Cauabury, below Cachoeira Thomaz, November 2, 1930. 
1 -, Brazil, Salto do Hud, Rio Maturacé, November 24, 1930. 
1 ad. o&, Venezuela, Chapazon, right bank of Brazo Casiquiare, January 30, 
1931. 
lim. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, April 28, 1931. 
The adult male was in breeding condition when collected. 
The two unsexed birds appear to be females by plumage characters, 
