152 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



Compsothlypis pitiayumi elegans Todd Ann. Carnegie Mus. VIII. 1912, 

 p. 204 (Type $ , Anzoategui, Lara. Venez., in Carnegie Museum). 



At Altagracia, midway between Ciudad Bolivar and Caicara, this 

 little warbler was not uncommon during January and February, 1897, 

 and on the 1907 expedition I found it common at Agua Salada de 

 Ciudad Bolivar during April and at Caicara during May. 



GRANATELLUS PELZELNI PELZELNI Sclater 1 



Granatellus pelzelni Sclater, P. Z. S. 1864. p. 607; Berlepsch & Hartert, 



p. 10. 

 G[ranatellus] p[elzelni] pelzelni Hellmayr, Novit. Zool. XIII. 1906. p. 



355- 



A single specimen of this handsome warbler, an adult female, 

 was captured in the thick forest at Munduapo (above the second 

 falls) in February, 1899. Klages collected it at La Pricion, Andre 

 at Nicare and La Union on the Caura, and the writer secured 

 a single specimen at La Cascabel, May 26, 1907. In the La Cascabel 

 specimen the eye was dark ; bill black above, slate grey below ; feet slate 

 grey. It is a male not yet in full plumage, having the entire 

 top of the head slate blue like the back but with the feathers black 

 basally ; the feathers on the forehead are tipped with ochraceous ; 

 lores, cheeks and streak above eye and ear coverts ochraceous buff 

 flecked with blackish on lores and sides of face ; auriculars slate blue 

 with some buffy shaft streaks. 



GEOTHLYPIS AEQUINOCTIALIS (Gmelin). 



Motacilla aequinoctialis Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1789. p. 972 ("Cayenna"). 

 Geothlypis aequinoctialis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. n. 



Many taken at Quiribana de Caicara and at Altagracia in i897-'98. 

 At the former place it was common in the tall grass and sedges, 

 growing along the low marshy banks of Quiribana Creek, some six 

 or seven miles back from the Orinoco, on the open savanna. When 

 flushed these birds would flutter just above the tops of the grasses for 

 twenty or thirty yards and then drop out of sight. The action was 

 what one would look for in a rail and very unwarbler-like. 



'In Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. X. 1885. p. 369, under the "key to species," Mr. Sharpe erroneously places 

 O. pelzelni m a section "having a black pectoral collar, " but there is no pectoral collar in specimens I have 

 seen and the white throat is followed immediately by the red breast. 



