Mie a Knicut, Zhe Horned Larks of Maine. 37 I 
onym of 7. cirrhatus, as one of his specimens agreed with skins from 
Guiana. Two specimens in my collection agree with the Demerara skins, 
but not with the examples from Trinidad, with the exception of the 
single one mentioned by Mr. Chapman. The degree of individual vari- 
ation in this species must be worked out before the synonymy can be 
established. 
Amazilia erythronota (Zess.). The most abundant Hummer. 
[ Comparing six specimens collected by Mr. Phelps with eight speci- 
mens in the American Museum, including two authentic Trinidad 
examples, I can find no grounds for the continued separation of the 
Venezuelan and Trinidad birds. 
The alleged character of difference in the color of the lower tail-coverts 
proves, as Mr. Salvin has remarked,! to be inconstant, this character in the 
Venezuelan specimens before me ranging from dusky to cinnamon- 
rufous. Nor is the color of the tail of value, the Trinidad examples 
being exactly matched by those from the mainland. 
I have seen no specimens of A. ¢obacz from Tobago and therefore adopt 
the name erythronota provisionally. — F. M. C.] 
Steatornis caripensis Humb. The famous cave, near the town -of 
Caripe, where this species was discovered by Humboldt, was visited on 
August 5 and 6. The birds were found in great numbers and a thorough 
exploration of the large cave was made. 
Picumnus obsoletus Ad/en. [Three males essentially resemble the 
type of P. obsoletus except in the color of the crown-spots, which are 
lemon-yellow instead of orange-red. Two young specimens of Prcumnus 
guttifer have both yellow and red feathers in the crown and it seems 
probable therefore that Mr. Phelps’s specimens are immature. In respect 
to the squamation of the under parts they agree with the type of obsoletus 
in being more lightly marked than P. sguamulatus of which I have 
examined seven specimens, including three kindly loaned me by Mr. 
Charles W. Richmond, Assistant Curator of the Department of Birds in 
the U. S. National Museum. — F. M. C. ] 
THE HORNED LARKS OF MAINE. 
BY O. W. KNIGHT. 
UnTIL the present year, 1897, Ofocoris alpestris had been the 
only variety of Horned Lark which had been recorded from Maine, 
but in view of the fact that O. a. praticola had been reported 
‘Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVI, p. 225. 
