AN ANNOTATED LIST OF BIRDS C0LLECTP:D IN THE 
VICINITY OF LA GFAIRA, VENEZUELA. 
By WiiiT Robinson, 
Captain, U. S. Army, 
and 
Charles W. Richmond, 
Assistant Curator of Birds. 
The following- list enibraccs two colloetion.s made b}' Captain Robin- 
son, one in the summer of 1895 ^ and the other in the .summer of 19< >0, 
together with a few specimens collected by Mr. Marcus W. Lyon, jr., 
who accompanied Captain Robinson on his second trip. In this list 
the identilications. descriptions of new species, and critical notes are 
I)}' Dr. Richmond and the field notes b}^ Captain Robinson. 
For detailed information relating to the second trip, the localities 
visited, etc., the reader is referred to the introductory remarks in the 
paper on the mammals, pages 135 to 162 of this volume. 
Family TINAMID.E. 
I. CRYPTURUS sou: (Hermann). 
PILEATED TINA:M0U. 
Local name: Ponchita. 
Three were obtained at San Julian, where the}^ were found in the 
brush on the lower hills. A female taken August 8 contained an egg 
nearl}- read}' for exclusion, the shell being partly formed, although 
still soft and not pigmented. Its dimensions were iO by 30 mm. 
(li by 1\ inches). There was in the ovaries a second Qgg the size of 
a cherry. The natives stated that it lays but two eggs. Its flesh is 
white and tender. Irides light brown; tarsi olive. 
Another and considerably larger species of tinamou was said to be 
found at San Julian. 
^ For details of this trip, see An Annotated List of Birds Observed in Margarita 
Island and at Guanta and La Guaira, Venezuela, by Wirt Robinson, Proo. L'. S. Nat. 
Mus., XVIII (1895), pp. 649-680. 
Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXIV— No. 1247. 
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