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Although Berlepsch and Hartert give the habitat of this species as 
covering the region from Angostura (Ciudad Bolivar) to Munduapo, 
inclusive, it was not observed below the falls of Atures by the writer, 
its place being taken on the middle stretches of the river — between the 
mouth of the 'Meta River and Ciudad Bolivar — by the following species. 
Eye Vandyke brown; bill above black, below slate grey; feet olive 
plumbeous. 
In the American Museum are two specimens from Boca de Sina, 
Cunucunuma River, Upper Orinoco. 
\'eniliornis passerinus (Linnaeus). 
Pictis passerinus L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12. I. 1766. p. 174. 
Veniliornis passerinus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 93 (in part). 
Common from Ciudad Bolivar to Caicara and beyond as far as 
the mouth of the Meta. 
Eye dark sepia brown: Ijill black; feet plumbeous olive. 
Celeus eleg.\ns hellm.wri Berlepsch. 
Ceh'us elegans hellmayri Berlepsch, Novit. Zool. XV: 1908: 272 (Brit. 
Guiana; Venezuela). 
Cclcus elegans reichenbachi Hellmayr, Novit. Zool. XIII : 1906 : p. 40 
(Guanoco, Orinoco Delta, Venezuela). 
There is a specimen, an adult female, in the American Museum col- 
lection, that was taken by Klages at La Union, Caura River, Oct. 7, 
1901. 
The absence of pale shaft-streaks or spots on the feathers of the 
back and upper wing-coverts (as pointed out by Hellmayr) serves to 
distinguish this race from elegans elegans and elegans leotandi. 
Celeus jumana (Spi-x). 
Picns jumana Spi.x, Av. Bras. I. 1824. p. 37. PI. 47, figs, i <J , 2 2 . 
Celeus jumana Berlepsch & Hartert. p. 94. 
Common on the upper river from Perico onwards, as far as I col- 
lected. 
Celeus grammicus (Malherbe). 
Picus grammieus Malh.. Mem. Soc. Roy. Liege, 1845. p. 69. 
Celeus grammicus Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 94. 
Not common. Taken only at ]\Iunduapo and Nericagua. 
