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support of the present identification that Zimmer (Amer. Mus. Nov., 
No. 962, 1937, p. 21) records chloronotus from Ciudad Bolivar as well. 
EMPIDONOMUS VARIUS RUFINUS (Spix): Amazonian Varied Fiycatcher 
Muscicapa rufina Sprx, Avium species novae . .. Brasiliam .. ., vol. 2, 1825, 
p. 22, pl. 31 (“in provincia fl. Amazonum’’). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
1 ad. o&, Brazil, Mandos, Amazonas, September 26, 1930. 
This example agrees with specimens from Bahia but is slightly 
darker on the sides of the breast. 
LEGATUS LEUCOPHAIUS LEUCOPHAIUS (Vieillot): Striped Flycatcher 
Platyrhynchos leucophaius Vir1titotT, Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat., nouv. éd., vol. 27, 
1818, p. 11 (“l’Amérique meridonale’”’ = Cayenne). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2 ad. o', Brazil, SAo Gabriel, Rio Negro, Amazonas, December 31, 1930- 
January 1, 1931. 
lad. &@, Venezuela, Raudal San Sebastian, Brazo Casiquiare, February 2, 1931, 
1 ad. o&, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 8, 1931. 
The two Brazilian examples have the superciliaries and their con- 
necting occipital band noticeably paler and broader than do the 
Venezuelan specimens. A series of some 25 birds from Brazil to 
Costa Rica, however, shows sufficient variability in this regard to 
make it seem an unlikely geographic character. The two Brazilian 
birds are in somewhat fresher plumage than the Venezuelan ones. 
The latter two are very similar to a skin from Cayenne (topotypes). 
MYIODYNASTES MACULATUS MACULATUS (P. L. §. Miller): Streaked Flycatcher 
Muscicapa maculata P. L. S. Mituter, Natursystem, Suppl., 1776, p. 169 (Cay- 
enne). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
1 ad. 9, Brazil, Santa Isabel, Rio Negro, October 9, 1930. 
This example has the heavily streaked breast and the dark colora- 
tion characteristic of the nominate subspecies. The dorsal surface 
is browner than in M. m. solitarius. 
MEGARHYNCHUS PITANGUA PITANGUA (Linnaeus): Boat-billed Flycatcher 
Lanius pitangua LINNAEUS, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 1386 (based 
on Brisson; eastern Brazil). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lim. o&, l ad. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rio Orinoco, May 20-21, 1931. 
The young male has a bill not much more than half as long as that of 
the adult but fully as broad. Its future growth is apparently chiefly 
a matter of increase in one direction. 
The adult is in very worn feathering. 
