294 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



PHOETHORNIS HISPIDUS (Gould). 

 Trochilus hispidus Gould, P. Z. S. 1846. p. 90. 

 Phaethomis hispidus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 81. 



Common in the same general region as P. affinis affinis. 



PHOETHORNIS AUGUSTI (Bourcier). 



Trochilus august i Bourc., Ann. Soc. Agric. Lyon, X. 1847. p. 623. 

 Phaethomis augusti Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 81. 



Seen only at Caicara where two specimens were taken. 



PHOETHORNIS RUPURUMII RUPURUMII Boucard. 

 Phaetornis Rupurumii Boucard, The Humming Bird, II. 1892. p. i. 



Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 81. 



Colors of fresh birds are : eye seal brown ; maxilla black, mandible 

 lemon yellow, black at tip; feet dusky. 



This species is found all along the middle "and upper Orinoco and 

 is not uncommon in the low, often almost impenetrable, thickets near 

 the borders of deep forest areas. They keep close to the ground, and 

 their color harmonizes so closely with stems of the vines and the 

 branches of the undergrowth about them that they are rarely seen. 

 I have sat for a half hour at a time hearing their oft-repeated squeaky 

 hissing notes all about me, frequently within a very few feet of me, 

 and have failed to see one of the performers. 



PHOETHORNIS RUBER EPISCOPUS Gould 1 . 

 Phaethomis episcopus Gould, P. Z. S. 1857. p. 14. 

 Phaethomis ruber Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 82. 

 Phaethomis caurensis Simon et Delmas, Ornis, XI. 1901. p. 208 (Caura 



River, Venez.). 



Common at Munduapo and at Nericagua. 



CAMPYLOPTERUS LARGIPENNIS (Boddaert). 

 Trochilus largipennis Bodd., Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783. p. 41. 

 Campylopterus largipennis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 82. 

 Abundant at Nericagua. Not seen elsewhere. 



1 See Hellmayr's notes on the races of P. ruber: Novit Zool. XIV. 1907. P- 375. 



