1875.] VENEZUELAN BIRDS. 237 
40. QUERQUEDULA ANDIUM. 
Querquedula andium, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 129 et p. 162. 
This species was founded on Fraser’s specimen, obtained in the 
Andes of Ecuador. Mr. Salvin has also two skins from another 
collection made in the same country. 
Mr. Goering’s example from the Sierra Nevada of Merida, at an 
altitude of 10,000 feet, agrees in every respect. The most salient 
characters of this Duck are its black bill and generally darker 
plumage. 
After leaving Merida, on his last journey, Mr. Goering traversed 
the line of the Andes to San Cristoval, in the province of Tachira, 
on the frontiers of Columbia, where he obtained examples of the 
following thirty-three species :— 
. Microcerculus squamulatus, Scl. et Salv. 
. Dacnis cayana (Linn.). 
. Calliste nigriviridis (Lafr.). 
cyaneicollis (Lafr. et d’Orb.). 
guttata (Cab.). 
. Phenicothraupis, sp. inc., 2. 
. Saltator magnus (Gm.). 
. Cissopis minor (Tsch.). 
. Orchesticus ater (Gm.). 
10. Phonipara pusilla (Sw.). 
11. Emberizoides macrurus (Gm.). 
12. Fluvicola pica (Bodd.). 
13. Myiodynastes chrysocephalus (Tsch.). 
audax (Gm.). 
15. Pipra leucocilla (Linn.). 
*16. Rupicola peruviana (Lath.). 
17. Dendrocolaptes validus (Tsch.). 
18. Hypoenemis leucophrys (Tsch.). 
19. Chameza olivacea (Tsch.). 
20. Phaethornis guyz (Less.). 
21. Sternoclyta cyaneipectus (Gould). 
22. Thalurania columbica (Boure. et Muls.). 
23. Nyctibius grandis (Gm.). 
24. Antrostomus rufus (Gm.). 
25. Nyctidromus albicollis (Gm.). 
26. Chloronerpes rubiginosus (Sw.). 
wanthochlorus, sp. nov. 
28. Melanerpes cruentatus (Bodd.). 
29. Ceryle amazona (Lath.). 
30. Malacoptila mystacalis (Lafr.). 
31. Coceyzus americanus (Linn.). 
*32. Caica pyrilia (Bp.). 
33. Milvago chimachima (Vieill.). 
Nee ORS Bari) Si 
We have remarks to make on the following species :— 
