270 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



Xiphorhynchus trochilirostris Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 67. 



Rare. Observed only in the belt of heavy forest bordering the river. 



Specimens taken at Altagracia, Caicara and Quiribana de Caicara. 

 Eye dark sepia brown; bill hazel brown; feet olive green. 



DENDROCINCLA MERULA (Lichtenstein). 

 Dendrocolaptes merula Licht., Abh. Kon. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1820. p. 208. 



Dendrocincla merula Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 67; Oberholser, Proc. Ac. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. LVI; 1904; p. 456 (Suapure). 



Rare, observed and collected at Munduapo and Nericagua on the 

 upper river. In the American Museum collection are specimens taken 

 at Suapure on the Caura River by Klages. Berlepsch and Hartert 

 also record it from Suapure and as well as from Nicare on the Caura 

 River. 



DENDROCINCLA MERULOIDES PHAEOCHROA Berlepsch & Hartert. 

 Dendrocinda [sic] phaeochroa Berlepsch & Hartert, Novit. Zool. IX. 



1902. p. 67 (Type, $ Munduapo, Orinoco River). 

 Dendrocincla olivacea phaeochroa Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Phila. LVI. 1904. p. 458 (Suapure, La Union, Caura River, 



Venezuela). 

 D[endrocincla] meruloides phaochroa Hellm. P. Z. S. Pt. IV: 1911: 



p. 1156. 



This species is closely related to D. merula but while the other is 

 rare this is the common Dendrocincla of the region. Observed only on 

 the upper river. 



As there are probably many who do not have access to Berlepsch 

 and Hartert's paper, I have thought it might be worth while to re- 

 produce their original description and remarks on this species which 

 are given below 1 . 



"Dendrocinda phaeochroa 8p. DOT. 



J " D.D. meruloides (Lafr.) dictae affinis, sed paulo major et corpore supra subtusque obscure olivaceo- 

 brunneo, minus rufuscente tincto, necnon gula sordide albescente (nee gula collo concolore) distinguenda. 



"cfc? al. 108, 109; caud. 94; culm. 29; tars. 24Xmm. 



" 9?al. 106, 107, io8:caud. 86, 86K,87;culm. 28K ; tars 24K mm. 



"Typus: o", Munduapo 10. ii., '99 (no. 11895 Cherrie coll.) 



" Hab. Ad flumina Orinoco et Caura dicta. 



"This new species differs from D. meruloides from Venezuela (Cumana, San Esteban, etc.), in its less 

 reddish, darker and more olivaceous brown color, its distinctly whitish upper throat and slightly larger 

 dimensions. It differs from D. merula, which occurs in the same localities, by its larger bill with a brownish, 

 less blackish upper maxilla, more olivaceous, less rufous upper wing-coverts, lighter color above and below, 

 less contrasting, less chestnut-ruious under tail-coverts, and paler under wing-coverts and lining of the 

 quills. 



" It is most interesting to find D. merula and D. phaeochroa in the same localities. Hartert hesitated 

 for some time to recognize them as two species, but he is now, together with Berlepsch. fully convinced of 

 the correctness of their differentiation." 



