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These specimens are identified to subspecies chiefly by geographic 
considerations as the total comparative material seen is slight. They 
agree with Zimmer’s description of this race, but it may be recalled 
that he called annectens and diversum nothing more than “recognizable 
intermediate forms’? when he proposed them. On the basis of the 
slender series seen (3 annectens, 2 diversum, and 1 signatum) it is not 
possible to be unduly critical, but it is difficult to be deeply convinced 
that so many races are recognizable. 
Apparently this species does not occur in the Upper Orinoco Valley; 
at least no records from there have been noted. 
EUSCARTHMORNIS ZOSTEROPS ZOSTEROPS (Pelzeln): White-eyed Tody Tyrant 
Euscarthmus zosterops PELZELN, Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens, pt. 2, 1868, p. 102, 
173, part (Marabitanas, Rio Negro). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. &, Brazil, Serra Imeri, near Salto do Hud, Venezuelan border, December 8, 
1930. 
lad. #,lad.-,2im. #,2im. 2, 1 im.-, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper 
Orinoco, April 3-28, 1931. 
Zimmer (Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 1066, 1940, p. 13) has pointed out 
that Idioptilon rothschild: Berlepsch is the same as the present bird. 
A specimen from French Guiana (Jdioptilon rothschildi was described 
from there) is certainly not seperable from any of the present series. 
One of the immature males from Cerro Yapacana is unusually pale, 
more whitish, less yellowish on the abdomen. 
EUSCARTHMORNIS IMPIGER (Sclater and Salvin): Active Tody Tyrant 
Euscarthmus impiger ScLATER and Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, p. 171 
pl. 18, fig. 1 (Caracas). 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
lim. ?, Venezuela, Soledad, Anzodtegui, December 11, 1929. 
Soledad is rather far inland for this bird according to the records in 
literature. The species is largely a bird of the tropical coastal zone of 
northern Venezuela and of Caribbean Colombia. 
LOPHOTRICCUS VITIOSUS AFFINIS Zimmer: Zimmer’s Helmeted Tyrant 
Lophotriccus vitiosus afinis Zimmer, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 1066, 1940, p. 20 (Rio 
Suno, above Avila, eastern Ecuador). 
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SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lim. 3, Brazil, Santa Isabel, Rio Negro, October 16, 1930. 
lim. &, Brazil, Panela de Onca, Rio Cauabury, November 1, 1930. 
1 ad. &, Brazil, Rio Maturacé, November 11, 1930. 
lim. 9, Brazil, Cucuhy, Rio Negro, February 7, 1930. 
The adult is more whitish, less yellowish, below than the immature 
specimens. 
In the absence of adequate comparative material, the present birds 
