ciierkie: ornithology of the ORINOCO REciox. 293 
species. The specimen is a male and was taken September 26, 1901. 
The throat and anterior part of the malar region is-ochraceous buff, 
but with many of the feathers tipped with blackish. 
CONOPOPHAGIDAE— THE GNATEATERS. 
Only a single species of those pertaining to this family has been 
recorded from the Orinoco region. 
CoRVTHOPis ToRQUATA ANTHOiDEs (Pucheran). 
Muscicapa anthoidcs Pucheran (ex Cuvier), Arch, du Mus. Par. VII 
(1855), P- 334- 
Corythopis anthoidcs Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 80. 
Rare ; one specimen taken at Nericagua. There is a single speci- 
men in the American Museum (Klages collection) from La Union on 
the Caura River — a female collected September 26, 1901. 
TROCHILIDAE— THE HUMMINGBIRDS. 
I was disappointed in the number of species of hummingbirds 
met with on the Orinoco River. Only twenty-eight were included in 
Berlepsch and Hartert's paper, twenty-two of which number were 
collected on the Orinoco proper by the writer, the remaining six were 
from the Caura River collected by Klages or Andre. 
While the number of species secured was a disappointment, it is 
perhaps not remarkable when considered in connection with the fact 
that we devoted the greater part of our time to the more or less 
open savanna regions bordering the middle stretches of the Orinoco — 
a region of low altitude, characterized by great stretches of open or 
sparsely wooded savannas, and little variety in the vegetation. 
Glauci.s hirsuta hirsuta (Gmelin). 
Trochihis /lirsutiis Cm., Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 490. 
Glands hirsuta Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 80. 
One taken at Munduapo. 
Phoethornis aFEinis affixis Pelzeln'. 
Phactoniis affinis Pelz., Sitz. Akad. Wien, XX. 1856. p. 157. 
Phacthornis superciliosus Berlepsch & Hartert. p. 80. 
Common on the upper river at Munduapo and Nericagua. 
'See Hellmayr's remarks regarding the use of this name: Nuvit. Zool. XHI. iyo6. p. 374. 
