562 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM VOL. 97 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
4 ad. o’, Venezuela, Ciudad Bolivar, June 8-10, 1931. 
lad. 9, Lad. #,1lim. 9, Venezuela, Soledad, Estado Anzodtegui, December 
4, 1929, and June 12, 1931. 
lim. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, January 6, 1930. 
In the color of the upperparts these specimens approach olivascens 
Cabanis from the Guianas and extreme northern Brazil. A molting 
adult male taken at Ciudad Bolivar, June 9, has many of the old 
feathers of the upperparts, auriculars, wing coverts, the outer edges 
of the primaries and secondaries, and a few of the breast, flank, and 
abdominal feathers washed with green. The immature female from 
Soledad is very greenish above and below. I have seen a similarly 
greenish, but somewhat paler, example of S. c. plumbeus, so this 
virescent immature plumage appears to hold for the species as a group 
and not merely for the present race. 
One of the males from Ciudad Bolivar has the white superciliaries 
much reduced, approaching the race plumbeus in this respect. It is 
also darker, more brownish above than the other three collected at 
the same time and place. 
All the June specimens are in very worn plumage or in molt; the 
December birds are in fairly fresh feathering. 
SALTATOR ORENOCENSIS ORENOCENSIS Lafresnaye: Orinocoan Saltator 
Saliator orenocensis LAFRESNAYE, Rev. Zool., vol. 9, 1846, p. 274 (“’embouchure 
de l’Orencoque,”’ Venezuela). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
1 #im.,1 fad.,2 9 ad.,1 9 im., Soledad, Venezuela, November 29, December 
4, 1929, and June 11, 1931. 
1 gf ad., 1 9 ad., Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, June 8-9, 1931. 
This series has been compared with two females from farther north 
in Venezuela by Wetmore (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 87, 1939, pp. 
256-257), who found his two from near Parapara, Estado Guirico, 
and from near El Sombrero, respectively, to have heavier bills. The 
bird from near Parapara is virtually a topotype of S. 0. rufescens 
Todd; its measurements are:—wing 87.5, tail (molting) 82.5, exposed 
culmen 19, depth of bill12 mm. Another female collected by Cherrie 
at Altagracia on the far northwest coast of Venezuela measures: 
Wing 88, tail 82, exposed culmen 18, depth of bill 12 mm. The 
Altagracia bird has a good deal of buffy wash on the breast and abdo- 
men which is lacking in the Parapara specimen. However, it can be 
matched by two immature birds from Soledad. It is unfortunate that 
Tocuyo was chosen as the type locality for rufescens as topotypes may 
prove to be indistinguishable from orenocensis. Specimens from 
farther to the west, however, are distinguishable on the basis of a 
greater extent of buffy wash on the underparts. 
