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b'. Back without pale markings. 



c. Under parts bright chestnut (ad. cF.chin. upper throat, lores, fore- 

 head and frontal crest white; immature with whole head and throat 

 black with faint brownish wash) Pilkys albifrons. 



c'. Middle of breast ochraceous buff, sides and flanks Dresden brown 



(chin, upper throat, and malar regionrufous) AnoplofsrufigtUapalidvs. 



CYMBILAIMUS LINEATUS LINEATUS (Leach). 

 Lanius lineatus Leach, Zool. Misc. I. 1815. p. 20. PI. 6. 

 Cymbilanius lineatus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 68 (La Pricion, Nicare, 



Suapure, Caura River, Venezuela). 



Not observed by the writer on the Orinoco proper, but collected at 

 various points on the Caura River by Klages and by Andre. 



The American Museum collection contains specimens from Sua- 

 pure and La Union on the Caura River. Collected by Klages. 



TARABA MAJOR ALBICRISSA (Ridgway). 



Thamnophilus albicrissus Ridgw., Proc. U. S. N. M. XIV. 1891. p. 481. 

 Thamnophilus major albicrissus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 68. 



Not common, but observed all along the river from Las Barran- 

 cas in the delta region, below Ciudad Bolivar to the upper river. 



Eye madder-brown; bill blackish, slate at base of mandible; feet 

 plumbeous. 



THAMNOPHILUS LUNULATUS (Lesson). 

 Lanius lunulatus Less., Traite d'Orn. p. 375. PI. 45. fig. 2. 

 Thamnophilus lunulatus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 68. 



Recorded by Berlepsch and Hartert from Suapure on the Caura 

 River. 



THAMNOPHILUS POLIONOTUS Pelzeln. 



Thamnophilus polionotus Pelz., Zur. Orn. Bras. II. 1868. p. 147. 

 Thamnophilus sp. inc. Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 69 (La Pricion and Nicare, 



Caura River, Venez.). 

 Thamnophilus polionotus Hellmayr. Novit. Zool. XIII. 1906. pp. 338-339 



(La Pricion and Nicare, Caura River, Venez.). 



Not observed on the Orinoco but recorded from its tributary, the 

 Caura, from La Pricion and from Nicare. 



Mr. Hellmayr (/. c.) gives a good account of this species 'com- 

 pared with allied forms. 



