BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 537 
HYLOPHILUS FLAVIPES ACUTICAUDA Lawrence: Buff-bellied Hylophilus 
Hylophilus acuticauda LawrENcE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1865, p. 37 
(Venezuela; Puerto La Cruz, Carabobo suggested as restricted type locality 
by Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 42, 1929, p. 198). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 ad. @, lim. @&, Venezuela, Soledad, December 7, 1929. 
4ad. of, 2 ad. 9, lim. 9, Venezuela, Ciudad Bolivar, June 8-11, 1931. 
All the June adults were noted as having enlarged, active gonads 
when collected. All of them are in worn plumage, decidedly light 
below, being more grayish green, less olive above then the December 
birds from Soledad, which are in fresher plumage. 
This series has been compared with, and found to agree with, the 
series of acuticauda in the American Museum of Natural History by 
Dr. Wetmore, who has kindly given me this information. 
Family COEREBIDAE: Honeycreepers 
CHLOROPHANES SPIZA SPIZA (Linnaeus): Green Honeycreeper 
Motacilla spiza Linnabus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, 188 (based on 
“The Green Black-cap Flycatcher” Edwards, A natural history of birds, 
vol. 1, p. 25, pl. 25, left fig.: Surinam). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. 9, Brazil, Rio Cauabury, Amazonas, October 21, 1930. 
1 ad. o, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, March 28, 1931. 
The colors, especially the shades of blue-green, in these birds appear 
to change somewhat in the course of time in the old museum speci- 
’ mens, making it hard to test the validity of some of the races. Thus, 
three specimens from Bahia, Brazil, on the basis of geography must 
be axillaris Zimmer but are quite indistinguishable in color from 
typical spiza. The present male from Cerro Yapacana is the most 
bluish below of any of a fair series of this form, which makes me 
wonder if the blue may not diminish in time (which would account 
for the two azillaris also). 
CYANERPES NITIDUS (Hartlaub): Short-billed Honeycreeper 
Coereba nitida HartTLavs, Rev. Zool., vol. 10, 1847, p. 84 (“du nord du Perou’’). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2 ad. #, 1 ad. 9, Brazil, Sao Gabriel, Rio Negro, Amazonas, January 1, and 
February 2, 1931. 
1 ad. o&, Venezuela, Solano, Brazo Casiquiare, February 2, 1931. 
The present series adds nothing to what Zimmer (Amer. Mus. 
Nov., No. 1203, 1942, p. 14) has written on the basis of an astonishingly 
large series of what has been considered hitherto a rare bird in collec- 
tions. 
CYANERPES CYANEUS DISPAR Zimmer: Zimmer’s Blue Honeycreeper 
Cyanerpes cyaneus dispar ZimmMER, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 1203, 1942, p. 10 (Buena 
Vista, Rio Casiquiare, southwestern Venezuela). 
