BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 517 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
1 im. -, Venezuela, Soledad, Anzodtegui, December 10, 1929. 
The single specimen obtained was just completing the molt into 
adult dress and is distinctly paler above than those from farther 
southward. 
INEZIA SUBFLAVA OBSCURA Zimmer: Zimmer’s Inezia 
Inezia subflava obscura Zimmer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 52, 1939, p. 168 
(Esmeraldas, Mount Duida, Venezuela; altitude 325 feet). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. —, Venezuela, Chapazon, right bank Brazo Casiquiare, January 30, 1931. 
1 ad. -, Venezuela, Raudal Corocoro, Brazo Casiquiare, February 9, 1931. 
lad. @, Venezuela, Brazo Casiquiare near Cafio Perro de Agua, February 18, 
1931. 
3 ad. @, 2ad. 9, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 1-5, 1931. 
2 ad. o, Venezuela, right bank Upper Orinoco, opposite Corocoro Island, 
March 12-13, 1931. 
This fine series agrees with the description, as it does in its geo- 
graphic origin, with Zimmer’s subspecies obscura. The form is darker 
and browner above than typical subflava, and differs from caudata of 
the Lower Orinoco by having the anterior under parts deeper yellow 
with heavier shading on the sides and flanks, but with no buffy tinge 
on the throat and breast, the white mental spot smaller and more. 
definitely demarcated, and by having the outer tail feathers with only 
a narrow outer margin of white or yellowish (not reaching the shaft), 
the bill slightly longer, the tarsus shorter. 
ELAENIA FLAVOGASTER FLAVOGASTER (Thunberg): Yellow-billed Elaenia 
Pipra flavogaster THuNBERG, Mém. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, vol. 8, 1822, p. 286 
(Brazil=Rio de Janeiro). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2ad. &, lim. 0, 2 ad. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rio Orinoco, January 
3, 1930, and May 12-19, 1931. 
lad. 9, Venezuela, Ciudad Bolivar, June 10, 1931. 
The June bird from Ciudad Bolivar is exceedingly abraded and ‘has 
the yellowish color largely faded or bleached out. The January bird 
is in fresh plumage; the May examples are somewhat worn. The 
Ciudad Bolivar specimen is one of those troublesome skins that 
could be referred almost as readily to E. spectabilis as to E. flavo- 
gaster, but it is too small for the former (wing 72; tail 62 mm.). 
ELAENIA PARVIROSTRIS Pelzeln: Small-billed Elaenia 
Elaenia parvirostris PELzELN, Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens, pt. 2, 1868, pp. 107, 
178 (Curytiba, Parand4). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2 ad. &, lim. o&, 2 ad. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rfo Orinoco, May 
9-18, 1931. 
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