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upper surface with a grayish wasli on the forehead, broader white 

 wing bars, more wliite on the throat, and slightly lighter yellow 

 under surface. A male measures as follows: Wing 51.8, tail 52.3, 

 culmen from base 11.5, tarsus 17.8 mm. The sex could not be de- 

 termined on one of the other specimens, and the third seems to be 

 unmature. 



ELAENIA CRIST ATA Pelzeln 



Elainea cristata Pelzeln, Zur Ornithologie Brasilicns, pt. 2, 1S69, p. 177 (City 

 of Goyaz, Brazil). 



Near La Trilla, toward the mountains to the south of Ocumare de 

 la Costa, at an elevation of 250 feet, I secured an adult female with a 

 grown young bird, in the tops of bushes in an open thicket. The 

 identification of these two birds has offered some difficult}'' and has 

 been made only after careful study of extensive material in the 

 National Museum and in the American Museum of Natural History. 

 There is no question that they represent cristata, which hereto- 

 fore has been recorded north only to the Orinoco, and also there is 

 little doubt that they belong to a race that has still to be recognized 

 systematically. E. cristata differs from related species in decidedly 

 larger bill and in larger, heavier feet and tarsi. In these characters 

 the two birds from La Trilla are well marked. The adult female, 

 however, is definiteh'' darker above than skins from farther south 

 and seems to have bill and feet even larger than the average. As 

 has just been stated these two represent an imdescribed form but 

 more material is required to properly delimit it. The specimens 

 represent a new record for northern Venezuela, 



ELAENIA VIRIDICATA FALLENS (Bangs) 



Myiopagis placens pollens Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 3, Mar. 31, 

 1902, p. 85 (Santa Marta, Colombia). 



At El Sombrero on November 15 1 shot an adult n^ale as it moved 

 about near the ground in a little grove at the edge of the prairie on 

 the Meseta. On November 18 I secured an immature bird in heavy 

 growth when it was working quietly tlirough the limbs. This indi- 

 vidual, which is decidedly smaller than the other, apparently because 

 of its immaturity, has the crown dull brown except for two or tliree 

 small feathers that mark the anterior section of the light crown streak. 

 The back has a mixture of dull brown, and the wing coverts are dull 

 brown centrally, with slightly paler, brighter edgings. 



ELAENIA FLAVOGASTER FLAVOGASTER (Thanberg) 



Pipra flavogaster Thunberg, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. P^tersbourg, vol. 8, 1822, 

 p. 286 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). 



This common species was taken first at Maracay on October 21, 

 when I found one hopping actively tlu'ough a treetop at La Provi- 



