BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 529 
and abdomen, both of which areas are like the color of the flanks and 
vent in adult birds. This specimen also has the sides of the head 
without whitish streaks, as in adults of the race 7. c. herberti from 
south of the Amazon. 
TROGLODYTES MUSCULUS CLARUS Berlepsch and Hartert: Pale-bellied House Wren 
Troglodytes musculus clarus BERLEPScH and Harrert, Nov. Zool., vol. 9, 1902, 
p. 8 (Bartica Grove, British Guiana). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. 9, Brazil, Santa Isabel, Rio Negro, Amazonas, October 138, 1930. 
lad. o, Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, Amazonas, January 15, 1931. 
1 ad. o&, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 3, 1931. 
The specimen from Santa Isabel is more rufescent on the upper 
parts of the head and body than are the other two, possibly because 
of its being in fresher plumage. It is less rufescent and slightly paler 
than another October female from northen Venezuela (Ocumare de 
la Costa). 
HENICORHINA LEUCOSTICTA LEUCOSTICTA (Cabanis): Black-capped Wood Wren 
Cyphorhinus leucostictus CaBanis Arch. fiir Naturg., vol. 13, No. 1, 1847, p. 206 
(Guiana). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. 9, Brazil, Rio Cauabury, below mouth of Rio Maturac4, Amazonas, 
November 7, 1930. 
2 ad. o, 1 ad. -, Brazil, Serra Imeri, near Salto do Hud, November 26, 1930— 
December 6, 1930. 
lim. 6, Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, Amazonas, January 6, 1931. 
The supposedly immature bird cannot be distinguished from adults 
in plumage except for a little greater mixture of brown in the black 
of the occiput. 
The Rio Cauabury specimen shows signs of molt in the wings. 
MICROCERCULUS BAMBLA CAURENSIS Berlepsch and Hartert: Venezuelan Banded Wren 
Microcerculus caurensis BERLEPSCH and Hartert, Nov. Zool., vol. 9, 1902, p. 5 
(Nicare, Caura River, Venezuela). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. 9, Brazil, Rio Maturacé, November 11, 1930. 
lad. @,1lim. 9, Brazil, Serra Imeri, near Salto do Hud, December 4-7, 1930. 
1 ad. o’, Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, January 14, 1931. 
1 ad. 2, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, April 2, 1931. 
Gilliard (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 77, 1941, p. 493) has 
recorded caurensis from the foot of Mount Duida, the nearest locality 
to the present ones from which the species has been recorded. His 
bird was compared directly with the type. I have used his birds as 
comparative material (together with borrowed specimens of the other 
races of the species) and find the present series to be caurensis, as 
might be expected geographically. The known range of caurensis is 
