222 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM Vol.87 



CHAMAEZA HUFICAUDA CfflONOGASTER Hellmayr 



Ckamaeza turdina chionogaster Hellmayr, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 16, May 28, 

 1906, p. 91 (E. Guacharo, near Carip6, Estado Monagas, Venezuela). 



Near Kancho Grande this interesting bird was fairly common. 

 Specimens were taken on November 6 at 3,700 feet and on November 8 

 at 4,000 feet. Soon after my arrival in this section I began to hear a 

 loud, whistled song from dense growth with no clue as to the musician 

 until one day in El Portachuelo one sang near at hand. I called and 

 watched intently until suddenly a bird moved in the dark shadows of 

 the undergrowth with a rattling of its wings and a moment later I had 

 it in my hand. On November 8 at 4,000 feet elevation in heavy forest 

 with the ground fairly open beneath I saw one within a few feet of me. 

 It walked easily and alertly and then, suddenly, sang its song, a steady 

 repetition of a single whistled note, given slowly at first and then more 

 rapidly and insistently to die away again quickly toward the end. To 

 me this was one of the most interesting of the forest birds. 



GRALLARICULA LOKICATA (Sclater) 



Grallaria loricata Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, p. 129 (near Caracas, 

 Venezuela). 



The only one seen was taken on November 7 at 3,600 feet elevation 

 in El Portachuelo above Eancho Grande. It flew up in heavy under- 

 growth to rest quietly only a few feet away. 



GRALLARIA HAPLONOTA HAPLONOTA Sclater 



Grallaria haplonota Sclater, Ibis, 1877, p. 442 (Venezuela near Caracas "). 



These interesting birds were found in small numbers along a winding 

 trail through dense, wet forest in El Portachuelo above Rancho 

 Grande. Here I shot an immature female at 3,600 feet on November 

 4 and a male at 3,900 feet on November 10. One morning as I 

 descended this trail toward noon I had a glimpse of an alert, long- 

 legged bird that ran quickly across a little open space and then dis- 

 appeared. The following day at the same place one ran down the 

 sloping path and into the cover of leaves at the side. A moment later 

 at a call it ran out suddenly with a quick, robinlike movement and 

 in another moment was in my hand. On November 10 a little 

 higher on the same trail, following a shot I heard a call that for a 

 moment I thought came from some laborer giving me warning that 

 he was in the forest. I wondered casually what had brought a work- 

 man into this remote woodland, when suddenly the note came more 

 clearly and I recognized that it was a bird. It was a sound difficult 

 to describe except to say that it was a low-pitched, rather hollow- 

 sounding whistle that I could imitate with sufficient accuracy to 



« According to Hellmayr, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., vol. 13, pt. 3, 1924, p. 338. 



