540 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM VOL. 97 
SPECIMEN COLLECTED 
lad. &, Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, Amazonas, January 17, 1931. 
The single example collected is in fresh plumage, it has the black 
frontal band slightly more extensive than in others seen from Colombia 
and Ecuador. However, the total material seen is small, while Hell- 
mayr (Catalogue of the birds of the Americas, pt. 8, 1935, p. 280, 
footnote) and Zimmer (Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 1193, 1942, p. 2) both 
concluded after examining extensive series that the species showed 
no geographic variational tendencies. 
COEREBA FLAVEOLA BOLIVARI Zimmer and Phelps: Bolivar Bananaquit 
Coereba flaveola bolivari ZimmMER and Puexrs, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 1312, 1946, 
p. 20 (Ciudad Bolfvar). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2ad. #, lim. #,1im. 9, Venezuela, Ciudad Bolivar, June 8-9, 1931. 
The specimens listed above are topotypical bolivari, a form stated 
to be similar to C. f. luteola, but with the back paler, brownish gray 
rather than dark brownish black, and with the crown less deeply 
black. In their more grayish dorsal color the birds approach guianensis 
but have the distinct white. spot on the primaries as in luteola. 
COEREBA FLAVEOLA RORAIMAE Chapman: Roraima Bananaquit 
Coereba guianensis roraimae CuapmMan, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 341, 1929, p. 6 
(Arabupu, Roraima, Venezuela). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2ad. #, 2im. &, Venezuela, San Antonio, Upper Orinoco, March 3-8, 1931. 
2 ad. o&, 2 ad. 9, Venezuela, Upper Orinoco, right bank opposite Corocoro 
Island, March 13-15, 1931. 
9ad. #7, lim. #,1lad. ?,3im. 9, Venezuela, Cerro Yapacana, Upper Orinoco, 
March 22—April 17, 1931. 
There is no white alar speculum in the great majority of these 
specimens and only a trace of it in a few, It is this character that 
serves to separate this form from C. f. colombiana. 
The races of this species and their ranges in southwestern Venezuela 
are exceedingly complicated, and enormous series are needed to work 
them out. Zimmer’s arrangement (Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 1193, 
1942, pp. 4-10) based on something over 800 specimens, which is 
followed here, indicates that no fewer than six races occur in south- 
western Venezuela alone. 
COEREBA FLAVEOLA COLOMBIANA (Cabanis): Colombian Bananaquit 
Certhiola colombiana CaBants, Journ. fiir Orn., 1865, p. 412 (‘“‘Bogota,’’ Colombia). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
5 ad. of, lim. o&, 5 ad. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, January 4-8, 1930, 
and May 9-20, 1931. 
These birds have a slightly developed white alar speculum. Their 
