286 liROOKLYN IXSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
In the American Musenni collection are sjieciniens from points 
on the Caura River, which agree exactly with Ciudad Bolivar and 
Caicara specimens. 
Hap.\locercus meloryphus (W'ied). 
Euscarthmus meloryphus Wied, Beitr. Naturg, Bras. III. 1831. p. 947. 
Hapalocercus meloryphus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 40. 
Rare. Only once met with by the writer, an adult female having 
been collected at Ciudad Bolivar April 8, 1905. 
Eye seal brown ; bill above black, below pale ; feet grey. 
The specimen secured was discovered perched low down on tlie 
limb of a tree at the edge of a small clump of trees and bushes on 
the savanna. In actions the bird was decidedly flycatcher-like : but 
the scutellation of the tarsus^ is very like that of Formiciz'ora and I 
am following Mr. Ridgway- in including it with the Formicariidae. 
Berlepsch and Hartert record a single specimen collected by 
Klages that was taken at Ciudad Bolivar. 
The outer and middle toes are united at the base for the length 
of the basal phalanx of the outer toe, and about one-half the length 
of the basal phalanx of the middle toe. Outer toe with claw slightly 
longer than the middle toe without claw; without claw reaching to about 
the middle of the subterniinal phalanx of the middle toe. 
Terenur.a spodioptil.x Sclater & Salvin. 
Tcrcnura spodioptila Scl. & Salv., Ibis, 1881. p. 270. PI. 9. f^g. i ; Berlepsch 
& Hartert, p. 75. 
Not observed on the Orinoco, but recorded from Suapure on the 
Caura River. 
Cercom.\cr-\ ciner.xscens (Sclater). 
Formicivora ciuerasccns Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857 p. 131 (Rio Napo). 
Ccrcomacra napensis Scl., P. Z. S., 1868. p. ^-2 (Rio Napo) ; Berlepsch 
& Hartert, p. 75. 
Ccrcomacra ciuerasccns. Hellmayr Novit. Zool. XII: 1905: 287 (habi- 
tat and crit.). 
'The following observations were made as a result of an e.xamination of a fresh t 
covers somewhat more than the anterior half of the tarsus. On the plantar tarsi is a double row of elongated 
irregularly quadrate scutella extending from the heel to the toes; but from the point of the heel for a short 
distance down the double series is separated by a median row of small scutella. There is also a narrow 
non scutellate area along the inside face between the edges of the acrotarsium and the scutella covering 
the planta and a similar area on the outside at the upper end. 
^Birds of North and Middle . 
