BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 509 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. 9, Brazil, Rio Cauabury, Amazonas, November 2, 1930. 
2 ad. 2, 1 ad. -, Brazil, Salto do Hud, Rio Maturacdé, Brazilian-Venezuelan 
border, November 17—23, 1930. 
lim. o, Brazil, Serra Imeri, near Salto do Hud, Brazilian-Venezuelan border, 
November 28, 1930. 
lim. ff, lad. 9, Brazil, Cucuhy, Rio Negro, Amazonas, February 8, 1930. 
1 ad. —, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare, below mouth of Rio Pacila, February 11, 
1931. 
lad. 9, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 1, 1931. 
On geographical grounds these specimens should be of the nominate 
race, with the description of which (no comparative material being 
available) they agree except in that the chin and upper throat are not 
as yellowish as the description calls for. Thus, Todd (Proc. Biol. 
Soc. Washington, vol. 35, 1922, p. 25) describes this area as deep 
colonial buff, whereas the present specimens are deep olive-buff on 
these parts. 
Another specimen from the Rio Negro, February 2, 1930, was 
preserved in alcohol. 
HIRUNDINEA FERRUGINEA FERRUGINEA (Gmelin): Black-tailed Swallow-flycatcher 
Todus ferrugineus GMELIN, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1788, p. 446 (based on 
“Ferruginous-bellied Tody”’ Latham, A general synopsis of birds, vol. 1, pt. 
2, p. 662: Cayenne). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. o', 1 ad. 2, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, 1,800 feet, 
March 20-22, 1931. 
These specimens agree with a male from British Guiana. The 
female has the chin and upper throat more whitish than the male. 
Apparently these are the first examples of the form reported from the 
upper Orinoco, the previous Venezuelan records being from Mounts 
Duida, Auy4n-tepui, and Roraima, in the tropical and subtropical 
zones (1,100-2,400 meters on Auydn-tepui). 
ONYCHORHYNCHUS CORONATUS CASTELNAUI Deville: Castelnau’s Royal Flycatcher 
Onychorhynchus castelnaui DEVILLE, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 1, 1849, p. 56 
(mission de Sarayacu, Pampa del Sacramento, Peru). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
1 ad. o&, Brazil, Serra Imeri, Brazil-Venezuela border, December 3, 1930. 
In identifying the lone example secured, I am guided by Zimmer’s 
statement (Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 10438, 1939, pp. 6-7) that birds from 
“the uppermost reaches of the Rio Negro in Brazil, and the adjacent 
portion of the Cassiquiare in Venezuela, are not quite typical but are 
. . . decidedly closer to castelnaui than to coronatus...”’ The 
present example has the small size of castelnaui (wing 75; tail 61 mm.) 
but has the upper tail coverts barred as in typical coronatus. It is 
