226 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
taken at San Mateo de Caicara, Altagracia, and Agua Salada de Ciudad 
Bolivar. It was found only in the open, sparsely wooded savanna 
regions. 
PlPROMORPHA OLEAGINEA OLEAGINEA^ (Lichtenstein ) . 
Muscicapa oleaginea Licht., Doubl. Verz. 1823. p. 55. 
Mionectes olcagiiicus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 41. 
Pipromorpha oleaginea Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. II, 1859, ji. 55. 
Rare on the Orinoco proper where only a single specimen has been 
collected by the writer. That was taken at Nericagua above the falls of 
Maipures in April, 1899. It is apparently not uncommon on the Caura 
River as it was there obtained by both Andre and Klages. In the 
American Museum are four specimens collected on the Caura River by 
Klages, two from La Union taken in October, and two from Suapure, 
taken in November. 
The Pipromorphae inhabit thick woods and frequent the low trees 
and bushes therein. 
Capsiempis flaveola (Lichtenstein). 
Muscicapa flaveola Licht., Doubl. \'erz. 1823. p. 56. 
Capsiempis flaveola Berlepsch & Hartert. p. 41. 
A not common species, but one found all along the river from 
Las Barrancas in the delta to above the falls of Maipures. 
Fresh birds have the eye seal brown ; bill above black, mandible 
pale at base; feet slate. 
Phaeomyias murina incomta (Cabanis & Heine). 
Elaenea incomta Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. II. 1859. p. 59 (Cartagena). 
Phaeomyias incomta Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 41 (Orinoco. \^enezuela; 
Altagracia, Caicara, Ciudad Bolivar). 
A common species frequenting sparsely wooded savanna regions 
along the middle Orinoco from Ciudad Bolivar to beyond the mouth of 
the Apure. Specimens have been collected at Ciudad Bolivar, Agua 
Salada de Ciudad Bolivar, Altagracia, and Caicara. 
Eye seal brown ; bill above blackish, below dusky with blackish tip : 
feet slate black. 
A nest with the male parent bird was collected at Caicara May 8, 
Uvenlns. the Trinidadian Pipromorpha will be found in tlie coast 
