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Pionus menstruus (Linn.). Blue-headed Parrot. 



These birds were fairly common in small flocks along the 

 Rio Guarapiche. We did not see them elsewhere. 



Pionites melanocephala (Linn.). Black-headed Caique 



Parrot. 



These conspicuous green, yellow, black and cream-colored 

 parrots were abundant among the trees along the Caiio Guanoco 

 where they were feeding and flying about in loose, noisy flocks. 

 An Indian brought one to the sloop in adult plumage. Small 

 flocks roosted occasionally in a tall dead tree near our house. 

 The call note is loud but not unmusical. 



Order CORACIIFORMES. 



Ceryle torquata (Linn.). Great Rufous Kingfisher. 



Not uncommon throughout this region. The first flew past 

 our sloop as we were entering the mangroves on March 25th at 

 the mouth of the Caho San Juan, and the last was perched on a 

 stub at La Brea, sitting quietly through a heavy downpour of 

 rain. 



Ceryle americana (Gmel.). Red-bellied Kingfisher. 



Three were seen at Caho Guanoco, and a pair near the 

 railroad track at La Brea. They were also fairly common on 

 the upper Guarapiche near Caiio Colorado. 



Ceryle superciliosa (Linn.). Pygmy Kingfisher. 



This least of all kingfishers is no larger than many hum- 

 mingbirds. One mile up the San Juan we saw the first, and they 

 were almost always in sight after that, on the Guarapiche and 

 Guanoco Canos. A male which I secured shows six or eight 

 large white feathers on the center of the lower breast, distinctly 

 marked off from the under tail-coverts which are white as usual. 

 As these little birds fiew they flashed out brilliantly in the sun- 

 light, — chestnut and green alternately. 



Nyctibius jamaicensis (Gmel.). Poor-me-one. 



We saw this bird only once in Venezuela but we often heard 

 its unmistakable cry in the evenings in the high-land woods 

 about two miles up the railroad track between Guanoco and La 

 Brea. It was only after we returned to Trinidad that we had an 

 opportunity of studying the bird at flrst hand, on Mr. Carr's 

 cocoa estate at Caparo. 



