BIRDS OF XORTHERX VENEZUELA WETMORE 225 



Flv-ckola pica in its broadly white shoulders and the extent of white 

 on the rump and upper tail coverts is so different from F. alhiventer in 

 which the back is wholly dark and there is only a narrow line of white 

 on the rump that 1 do not believe it proper to consider them conspecific, 

 at least imtil intergradation is proved. All that I have seen refer 

 definitely to one group or the other. 



PYROCEPHALUS KUBINUS SATURATUS Berlepsch and Hartert 



Pyrocephalus rubinus saturalus Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. ZooL, vol. 9, 

 Apr. 1902, p. 34 (Altagracia, Rio Orinoco, Venezuela). 



At Ocumare de la Costa I secured a line adult male as it rested on a 

 shaded perch beneath a little tree on the open playa. This bird is not 

 quite in full plumage, being dark brown on the back. Others were 

 seen here on October 29 and 30. On November 12 and 211 observed 

 them frequently between Maracay and El Sombrero, and at the latter 

 point they were common from November 13 to 20. A male taken on 

 November 16 is in full plumage, with the upper surface and the under 

 wing coverts sooty black, as is characteristic of this dark race. 



MACHETORNIS RIXOSA FLAVIGULARIS Todd 



M achetornis rixosa flavigularu Todd, Ann. Carnegie Miis., vol. 8, May 20, 1912, 

 p. 210 (Tocuyo, Estado Lara, Venezuela). 



The southern race of this curious flycatcher has been so well known 

 to me that it was a delight to make the acquaintance of the somewhat 

 yellower northern form when on October 17 1 saw two perched on the 

 back of a horse near the little stream in the lower part of the city of 

 Caracas. At Ocumare de la Costa on October 25 and 28 I collected 

 two specimens on Xhe open playa at Independencia, where the birds 

 rested in the tops of small, solitary trees or ran about on the ground 

 among grazing goats and burros. They were seen alone or in groups 

 of two or three and were alert and tame, calling occasionally wdth 

 weak, squeaky notes. One was taken at La Providencia near Mara- 

 cay on November 11, and at El Sombrero I saw them on the open 

 prairies from November 15 to 21. On the latter date they w^ere 

 recorded at Hato Paya. 



MUSCIVORA TYRANNUS MONACHUS (Harllaub) 



Tyramius (Milvulus) monachus Hartlaub, Rev. Zool., vol. 7, 18-14, p. 214 (Guate- 

 mala) . 



The only one recorded was a male taken on November 15 on an 

 open prairie on the Meseta at El Sombrero. In early morning, follow- 

 ing a heax'y rain, the bird rested on a stick a foot from the ground. 



