520 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [Julie 3, 



209. Pipreola aureipectus (Lafr.) ; Scl. Ibis, 1878, p. 171. 



(Mus. P. L. S.) 



Mr. Salmon's skins fully agree with others from Venezuela. We 

 are rather surprised to find this species so far west. We have 

 never seen it in Bogota collections. 



210. Ampelion cinctus (Tsch.); Scl. Cat. p. 253. 

 Frontino. (Mus. S.-G.) 



211. Helioch^ra rubrocristata (Lafr. etd'Oib.); Scl. Cat. 

 A. B. p. 255. 



Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) 



Iris dark ; stomach contained insects. 



212. Helioch.era rufaxilla (Tsch.) 



Ampelion rufaxilla, Cab. in Tsch. Faun. Per. Aves, p. 137, pi. vii. 

 fig. 2. 



Jieliochera rufaxilla, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 58. 



Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G. and P. L. S.) 



Iris dark ; stomach contained insects. 



There is a Bogota skin of this bird in the Paris Museum. 



213. Querula cruenta (Bodd.) ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 257. 



Pocune, Remedios. (Mus. S.-G.) 

 Stomach contained fruit. 



214. Pyroderus orenocensis (Lafr.) ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 259. 

 Concordia, Frontino, Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) 



Stomach contained fruit. 



Eggs (no. 140) pale buff, spotted with various shades from dark 

 red-brown to pale lilac : axis 1*9, diam. 1*3. (See Plate XLIII. 



" The nest, composed of sticks, is generally built rather high in the 

 fork of a slender branch, and is exceedingly slight and small, not 

 much larger than the nest of the Common Bing-Dove. By frightening 

 the bird from her nest, 1 have caused the eggs to fall to the ground. 

 The bird is exceedingly fierce in defending its nest from Hawks. I 

 found the first nest I ever saw entirely from seeing a Red-necked 

 Fruit-Crow fly out at a passing Hawk." — T. K. S. 



Family Dendrocolaptid^e. 



215. Sclerurus caudacutus, Vieill. ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 

 1867, p. 573. 



Frontino. (Mus. P. L. S.) 



Agrees with Bogota and Cayenne specimens. 



216. Synallaxis frontalis, Pelz. ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 8. 

 Concordia, Retiro, Medellin, Sta. Elena. (Mus. S.-G.) 



Iris dark ; stomach contained insects. 

 Eggs (no. 49) white : axis '85, diam -65. 



