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forest species. The elevation where my specimens were taken is 

 lower than the 1,000-foot level indicated by Todd.®^ 



BASILEUTERUS FLAVEOLUS (Baird) 



Myiothlypis flaveolus Baird, Review of American birds, 1865, p. 252 (Rio Para- 

 guay, Paraguay), 



Near Ocumare de la Costa on October 30 I collected two of these 

 birds and saw several others in an area of dense brush, where the 

 ground beneath was open. They walked gracefully and alertly, some- 

 times half raising the wings for an instant. Near El Sombrero on 

 November 20 one sang as it walked along the ground, the song being 

 a repetition of a single note given rather forcefully, in tone suggestive 

 of warblers of the Oporornis group. 



The type specimen, in the U. S. National Museum, collected by the 

 expedition under Capt. T. J. Page in June 1859, marked "Paraguay," 

 was without question collected along the Rio Paraguay. 



DOUCHONYX ORYZIVORUS (Linnaeiu) : Bobolink 



Fringilla oryzivora Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 179 (South 

 Carolina). 



Shortly after sunrise on October 16 as our ship entered the harbor 

 at La Guaira a flock of about 75 small birds swept in along the shore 

 in close formation and rose to pass over the docks. At a casual glance 

 I took them for sandpipers, but as I obtained a better look I saw 

 that they were bobolinks. I supposed that they had just arrived in 

 migration and were making a landfall as there was no place here for 

 them to feed. At Ocumare de la Costa before seven on the morning 

 of October 28, one flew with a low call from a large sea-grape tree on 

 the beach and went uncertainly toward the marsh beyond. It seemed 

 to be newly arrived. The following day I flushed half a dozen from 

 rushes growing in the lagoon. 



STURNELLA MAGNA PARALIOS Bangs 4H 



SturneUa magna paralios Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 2, Feb. 15, 

 1901, p. 56 (San Sebastian, 6,600 feet elevation, Santa Marta region, 

 Colombia) . 



Near Cagua, Estado Aragua, I saw one of these birds on November 

 12 but did not have opi)ortunity to collect it. I noted a few others 

 offered for sale alive m the bird market in Caracas. An old specimen 

 in the U. S. National Museum collection from Valencia, Venezuela, 

 agrees in color and size with a skin from San Sebastian, the type 

 locality of paralios. 



« Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 74, art. 7, 1929, p. 72. 



