3SO UROOKI.VN INSTITUTE Ml'SEU.M. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
noco. but only one specimen was collected, an adult male taken at 
Agiia Salada de Ciudad Bolivar, April lo, 1907. 
Eye Vandyke brown; bill black; feet dusky slate color, claws black. 
Bubo virginianus scotinus Oberholser. 
Bubo virginianus scotinus Oberholser, Sci. Bull. Mus. Bklyn. Inst. I. 
1908. p. 371 (.Type, ex Caicara, Orinoco River). 
Only one specimen.- The species was observed at Ciudad Bolivar, 
Caicara and at Perico. 
Glaucidium bkasilianum phalaenoides (Daudin). 
Strix phalaenoides Daud., Traite d'Orn. II. 1800. p. 206. 
Glaucidium brasdianuni phalaenoides Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 116. 
Native name Mochuelo. Rare. A single specimen of this species 
was taken at Perico, near the falls of Atures, September 21, 1898. 
Glaucidium .iardinei (Bonaparte). 
Phalaenopsis jardiuii Bonap.. Compt. Rend., XLI, 1855. p. 654 (Andes 
of Quito). 
Glaucidium jardinii Berlepsch. Ibis 1884. p. 436 (Angostura). 
Berlepsch (/. c.) has recorded a specimen "in the brown phase" 
from .\ngostura (^Ciudad Bolivar), Orinoco River. 
COLUMBIDAE— THE PIGEONS. 
Eleven species were observed on the Orinoco. The majority, at 
least, are resident wherever found, although the number of individuals 
of a given species may vary greatly with the season. This is especially 
true of those forms which feed largely on fruits. 
The larger species are much sought after as game birds and 
while they may be very abundant, they are so exceedingly wary that 
only the most skillful of hunters succeed in getting a good bag in a day's 
hunting. 
As far as my observations went, none of the species nest in 
colonies. 
Contrary to the rule that pigeons lay two eggs. C'oluniba nifina 
was ascertained to deposit a single egg as a normal clutch. 
Culumba spEciosa Gmelin. 
Columba spcciosa Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 78; Berlepsch & Hartert. 
p. 116. 
Observed at Maipures, only, during December and Januar\', 
