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draw the bird up within a few feet. It answered me regularly, 

 coming nearer and nearer, until suddenly I found the caller in one 

 of these ant-pittas that appeared with a thruslilike flirt of its wings 

 on a log a few feet away. It eyed me for an instant and then dropped 

 out of sight, but presentl}'^ it came up again and I secured it. Another 

 was heard farther on at 4,000 feet. The natives loiow this bird as 

 pichdn. The breast muscles were moderate in size and light in color, 

 indicating little use. The juvenile bird has a few streaks of cinnanion- 

 bufF scattered over the back and sides of the crown. 



Family COTINGIDAE 



EUCHLORNIS FORMOSA FORMOSA (Hartlanb) 



Arnpelis formosa Hartlaub, Rev. Mag. ZooL, 1849, p. 275, pi. 14, fig. 1 (Caracas,** 

 Venezuela). 



These were bii'ds of the rain forest at Rancho Grande where I 

 secured specimens on November 4, 7, and 10 and where I found them 

 from 3,600 feet upward. They ranged low in heavy undergrowth 

 where they came to feed on a blue colored berry. They moved about 

 rather actively at times and again slowly and deliberately but stopped 

 frequently to rest for a few minutes so that I sometimes had difficulty 

 in seeing them. They are heavy bodied, have a very small oil gland, 

 and the feathers on back and rump are very loosely attached. The 

 adult male is one of the most beautifully colored of all forest birds, 

 with its black head and tlu-oat, green back, wings, and tail, white 

 spots on the ends of the tertials, green flanks, and yellow underparts 

 with a large spot of deep red on the upper breast and lower foreneck. 



PACHYRAMPHUS POLYCHOPTERUS TRISTIS (Kaup) 



Psaris marginatus iristis Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1851 (Oct. 28, 1852), 

 p. 48 (Cayenne)." 



Seen on tliree occasions near El Scmbrero^ — on November 13, when 

 a female was shot as it moved actively tlu-ough the branches of a 

 thorn bush; on November 14, when one was seen in dense scrub; 

 and on November 21, when a female was taken in dense woods near 

 Hato Paya, 18 miles northwest. 



Family PIPRIDAE 



CfflROXIPHIA LANCEOLATA (Wagler) 



Pipra lanceolata Wagler, Isis (von Oken), 1830, p. 931 ("Guiana sive Cajenna")- 



On October 30 near Ocumare de la Costa at the edge of a patch 

 of dense scrub I heard a whistled call, reminiscent of Guatemala, and 



" The original description says Venezuela only. Caracas is indicated by Hellmayr, Field Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., zool. ser., vol. 13, pt. 6, 1929, p. 121. 

 *• Designated by Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zo61., vol. 64, 1921, p. 387. 



