BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 489 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. 3, Brazil, Santa Isabel, Rio Negro, October 17, 1930. 
1 im. -, Brazil, Cachoeira Manajé, Rio Cauabury, October 30, 1930. 
lim. 9, Brazil, Rio Cauabury, below mouth of Rio Maturacd, November 6, 
1930. 
lad. 3, Brazil, Sao Gabriel, Rio Negro, December 30, 1930. 
lad. 3, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, below Cano Caripo, February 22, 1931. 
lad. 3, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, April 22, 1931. 
The measurements of the present series agree very well with those 
given by Hellmayr (Catalogue of the birds of the Americas, vol. 6, 
1929, p. 187, footnote) for this race. Several of the specimens, dis- 
tributed from October to April, were found to be in breeding condition 
when collected. 
The nominate form differs in being larger and in having a some- 
what more swollen bill. A female from Diamantina, near Santarém, 
Brazil, agrees with nanus in size but has a swollen bill like typical 
marginatus. It is considered as nanus, in agreement with the finding 
of Griscom and Greenway (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 88, 1941, 
p. 261) who refer Tapajéz birds to nanus. The Diamantina bird is 
pale above like the nominate race; it is really an almost exact halfway 
intermediate between the two races. 
PLATYPSARIS MINOR (Lesson): Lesser Becard 
Querula minor LESSON, Traité d’ornithologie, livr. 5, 1830, p. 363 (Cayenne). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 , Brazil, Rio Cauabury, below mouth of Rio Maturacé, November 6, 1930. 
1 ad. 6, Brazil, Rio Maturacdé, November 12, 1930. 
The specimen from Rio Cauabury is molting into adult plumage 
from a juvenal dress resembling that of the female. The parts in 
adult feathering are the rosy gular patch, the sides and top of the 
head, the nape and interscapulars, and the median pair of rectrices. 
The small comparative series examined bears out Hellmayr’s con- 
tentions (Catalogue of the birds of the Americas, pt. 6, 1929, pp. 
198-199, footnote) as to the great variability of the females. 
TITYRA CAYANA CAYANA (Linnaeus): Cayenne Tityra 
Lanius cayanus LInNAEvs, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 137 (based 
on “‘La Pie-griesche grise de Cayenne’”’ Brisson: Cayenne). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
3 ad. ot, 2 ad. 9, Brazil, Sao Gabriel, Rio Negro, January 9-14, 1931. 
1 ad. 6, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, April 15, 1931. 
lad. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rfo Orinoco, January 5, 1930. 
lad. ?, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 8, 1931. 
Some of the January birds were found to be in breeding condition 
when collected. None of the specimens obtained are in very worn 
plumage; the most abraded examples are January ones. Freshly 
