CHERRIE: ORNITHOLOGY OF THE ORINOCO REGION. l8l 



TACHYPHONUS LUCTUOSUS Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny. 



Tachyphonus luctuosus Lafr. & D'Orb., Syn. Av. in Mag. Zool. VII. 



1837. p. 29; Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 21. 



This species was not seen on the Orinoco proper, but Beebe took 

 specimens at Guanoco in the delta region and I collected a single 

 example May 26, 1907, at La Cascabel on the river San Feliz near its 

 junction with the Cuchivero River. 



The Tring Museum received specimens from Suapure, La Pri- 

 cion, Nicare and La Union on the Caura River. 



In the American Museum collection are specimens collected on 

 the Caura River by Klages at El Llagual in March, Suapure in Janu- 

 ary and La Union in October. 



In the La Cascabel specimen, an adult male, the eye was seal 

 brown ; bill above black, sides of mandible slate grey, center of ridge of 

 gonys black ; feet slate grey. 



TACHYPHQNUS CRISTATUS CRISTATELLUS Sclater. 

 Tachyphonus cristatellns Sclater. Cat. Am. Birds. 1867. p. 86 (Type, 



Bogota). 



Tachyphonus cristatus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 22. 

 Tachyphonus cristatus cristatellus Hellmayr, Novit. Zool. XII. 1905. 



P- 2 75- 



The Tring Museum received specimens collected on the Caura 

 River from both Andre and Klages; and in the American Museum 

 collection is a series collected by Klages at Suapure, and at La 

 Union on the Caura River during the months of September, October 

 and February. This series includes both males and females in adult 

 plumage, and immature specimens in transitional plumage. A 

 "female" taken at Suapure, September loth, is brownish olive above, 

 washed with russet especially posteriorly, the rump being nearly pure 

 russet ; forehead and sides of crown greyish olive, centre of crown 

 russet; wings and tail blackish; quills edged with mummy brown; 

 sides of face olive but feathers of lores and auriculars with faint buffy. 

 shaft lines ; below, raw sienna with buffy throat and under tail coverts 

 ochraceous. An immature male taken at the same point is just 

 assuming the plumage of the adult. The general color both above 

 and below is black but interspersed with brownish olive feathers on 

 the back and a few ochraceous ones below. The rectrices are all 





