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not recognizable as distinct from hyperrhynchus. In considering 
hyperrhynchus a race of macrorhynchos, I am following the arrange- 
ment of Griscom and Greenway (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 88, 
1941, p. 189), but it must be pointed out that the last word on the 
subject is yet to be said. Pinto records typical macrorhynchos as 
well as N. hyperrhynchus giganteus from the Rio Negro! Certainly 
the present example, with a broad white frontal area extending 
backward to the middle of the eye, is clearly hyperrhynchus and not 
typical macrorhynchos. 
NOTHARCHUS ORDII (Cassin): Ord’s Puffbird 
Bucco ordii Cassin, Proce. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 5, 1851, p. 154, pl. 8 
(Venezuela). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. 9, Brazil, Cucuhy, Rio Negro, February 3, 1930. 
3 ad. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, April 21—24, 1931. 
The April birds show signs of molt, especially in the rectrices. 
Although Venezuela was given as the type locality in the original 
description of this puffbird, there appear to be no published records 
of its occurrence in that country, although other specimens have been 
collected there; the American Museum of Natural History, for example, 
has examples from the base of Mount Duida. Because of the lack 
of Venezuelan records in print Cory (Catalogue of the birds of the 
Americas, vol. 2, No. 2, 1919, p. 393) questioned the inclusion of 
Venezuela in the range, and Pinto (Rev. Mus. Paulista, vol. 22, 1937, 
p. 308) gives the type locality as ‘Venezuela, errore.’’ Possibly 
because of the doubt as to the Venezuelan distribution of the bird, 
Stone (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1899, p. 33) in his catalog 
of the bird types in the Philadelphia collection gives the type locality 
as Rio Negro and makes no mention of the original description given 
by Ord. In answer to my request, Mr. de Schauensee has reexamined 
the type specimen and informs me that it has an original label marked 
‘no. 27. Bucco sp.? Bucco ordiit Cassin Rio Negro (Venezuela).”’ 
One of the Cerro Yapacana specimens appears to be younger than 
the other two, as it has the upper parts more brownish and the scapu- 
lars and upper wing coverts tipped with pale tawny-buff. It also 
has the brown pectoral band slightly darker than the other two but 
agrees in this respect with the Cucuhy adult. It is possible that more 
extensive series may reveal that the Upper Orinoco birds are separable 
from those of the Rio Negro in having the brown pectoral band 
slightly paler in the adult plumage. A bird from ‘‘Cayenne ?” is 
pale like the birds from the Upper Orinoco, but one from Playa del 
Rio, at the base of Mount Duida, is Senn as dark as our Cucuhy, 
Rio Negro, example. . 
