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streaked breast and sides. Tliese distinctions do not apply in the 

 case of my bird from Los Riitos, which differs from the Colombian 

 specimens that I have seen only in being a little paler below, probably 

 only an individual variation. Two skins in the American Museum 

 from Cumbre Chiquito near San Esteban do not appear to differ 

 from birds from Santa Marta. 



HYPNELUS BICINCTUS BICINCTUS (Gould) 



Tamatia bicincta Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1836 (1837), p. 80 (Venezuela).** 



On October 26 I collected two near Ocumare de la Costa as they 

 rested stolidly on shaded, open perches beneath the crown of spreading 

 trees. They perched with the body inclined somewhat forward, 

 tail held at an angle, and impressed me as rather dull and stupid. 

 October 28 I recorded one eating a large insect. At El Sombrero on 

 November 16 one flew from near the ground to an open limb in a tall 

 tree, uttering a croaking note. The two from Ocumare were molting 

 the primaries. 



Family RAMPHASTIDAE 



AULACORHYNCHUS SULCATUS SULCATUS (Swainson) 



PterogloHsus sulcatus Swainson, Quart. Journ. Sci. Lit. Arts, vol. 9, 1820, p. 267 

 (Venezuela). 



Near Rancho Grande on November 8 I saw several of these birds 

 in heavy forest at 4,000 feet elevation; I shot one but lost it over the 

 edge of a steep slope. The following day, lower down at 3,000 

 feet, a grunting note called my attention to one of these birds in a 

 tree at the edge of the road. This one also fell far below and was 

 lost. I was told that the bill was prized by the country people for 

 medicine, for what purpose I did not learn, and that it was worth 

 5 bolivars. 



Family PICIDAE 



VENILIORNIS KIRKn CONTINENTALIS Hellmayr 



Veniliornis kirkii continentalis Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., vol. 13, Feb. 1906, p. 39 

 (Caripe, near Cumand, Venezuela). 



At La Providencia, near Maracay, on November 111 found two 

 working over open tree tunks in a grove and collected a male. One 

 was seen at Parapara on November 12, and on November 21,1 collected 

 a female in heavy woods at Hato Paya north of El Sombrero as it 

 climbed busily over the larger limbs. These specimens measure as 

 follows: Male, wing 82.3, tail 49.5, culmen from base 21.4, tarsus 

 15.3 mm. ; female, wing 84.1, tail 49.8, culmen from base 19.0, tarsus 

 15.7 mm. The female differs decidedly from the male in much 

 narrower dark bars below, so that it is lighter colored on the lower 



w Hellmayr and Seilern, Arch. Naturg., vol. 78, 1912, p. 166. 



