298 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



THALURANIA REEULGENS Gould. 

 Thalurania refulgens Gould, P. Z. S. 1852: p. 9; Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. 



Sci. Phil. 1913: p. 201. (Manimo Riv., Isla de Morocatico). 

 ; Recorded by Stone from the delta country. 



THALURANIA EURCATA EISSILIS Berlepsch & Hartert. 



Thalurania furcata fissilis Berlepsch & Hartert, Novit. Zool. IX. 1902. 



p. 87 (Type, Caura River, Suapure, Venezuela). 



This species was described from specimens collected on the Caura 

 River. It has not been observed on the Orinoco proper. 



Recorded by Berlepsch and Hartert from "Parima Mountains" 

 (Caura River region) collected by Klages. On my first expedition 

 this species was not observed, but in 1905 and in 1907, it was noted 

 as not uncommon about Caicara during the month of May. 



Eye dark ; bill black ; feet dusky. 



ANTHRACOTHORAX NIGRICOLLIS (Vieillot). 

 Trochilus nigricollis Vieill., Nouv. Diet. VII. p. 349. 

 Lampornis nigricollis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 87. 



Common from the mouth of the river Meta up as far as I ex- 

 tended my explorations. 



ANTHRACOTHORAX GRAMINEUS (Gmelin). 

 Trochilus gramineus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1 : 1788 : p. 488. 

 Anthracothorax gramineus Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1913 : p. 201 



(Pedernales). 



Recorded by Stone from the delta. 



CHRYSOLAMPIS ELATUS (Linnaeus). 



Trochilus mosquitus L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12. i 1766. p. 192. 

 Chrysolampis mosquitus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 87. 



Common along the middle stretches of the river from Ciudad 

 Bolivar up as far as the mouth of the Meta. Recorded by Berlepsch 

 and Hartert from Suapure, Temblador and La Pricion, on the Caura 

 River. 



