BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 45] 
These specimens agree with the paratypical series in the American 
Museum of Natural History. 
Both examples were noted as in breeding condition when collected. 
NASICA LONGIROSTRIS (Vieillot): Long-billed Woodhewer 
Dendrocopus longirostris VietuLoT, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., nouv. éd., vol. 26, 
1818, p. 117 (based on ‘‘Le Grimpar Nasican” Levaillant, Histoire naturelle 
des promérops . . ., p. 65, pl. 24: “Brésil’’). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lim. ?, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 9, 1931. 
1 ad. &, Venezuela, Upper Orinoco, right bank opposite Corocoro Island, 
March 16, 1931. 
1 ad. @, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, April 27, 1931. 
2im. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Orinoco, May 16, 1931, and January 6, 
1930. 
Material is not at hand to investigate the status of N. l. australis 
Griscom and Greenway, but even if it should prove valid (which, 
according to Zimmer is doubtful) the present birds would belong to 
the nominate form found to the north of the Amazon. 
The immature birds are paler and more abundantly transversely 
flecked with dusky on the abdomen than are the adults. 
GLYPHORHYNCHUS SPIRURUS RUFIGULARIS Zimmer: Rufous-throated Wedgebill 
Glyphorhynchus spirurus rufigularis ZimmMER, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 757, 1934, p. 3 
(Mount Duida (Campamento del Medio), Venezuela; altitude 350 feet). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. @, Brazil, Santa Isabel, Rio Negro, October 10, 1930. 
1 ad. 3, Brazil, Rio Cauabury, below mouth of Rio Maturac4, November 7, 
1930. 
2 ad. @, Brazil, mouth of Rio Maturac’, November 8, 1930. 
lad. #, lad. ?, Brazil, Rio Maturacd, November 9-12, 1930. 
lad. #, 1 ad. ?, Brazil, Salto do Hud, Rio Maturacdé, Venezuelan border, 
November 16-20, 1930. 
lad. o, Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, January 17, 1931. 
2ad. 9, Venezuela, Chapazon, Brazo Casiquiare, January 31, 1931. 
1 ad. 9, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, below mouth of Rio Pacila, February 
13, 1931. 
lim, #,1lad. 9, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, Cafio Caripo, February 22, 1931. 
1 ad. 3, Venezuela, Upper Orinoco, near Isla Temblador, February 25, 1931. 
Qad. 7,3 ad. 2, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, April 1-2), 1931. 
A number of the birds collected from January 31 to April 19 were 
noted as being in breeding condition. 
This fine series adds nothing either in addition to or by way of a 
modification or refutation of the comments given by Zimmer (cit. 
supra). 
SITTASOMUS GRISEICAPILLUS AMAZONUS Lafresnaye: Amazonian Woodcreeper 
Sittasomus amazonus LAFRESNAYE, Rey. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 2, 1850, p. 590 
(Upper Amazon, Pert). 
