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Show 1875.] VENEZUELAN BIRDS. 237 40. QUERQUEDULA ANDIUM. Querquedula andium, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 129 et p. 162. This species was founded on Fraser's specimen, obtained in the Andes of Ecuador. Mr. Salvin has also two skins from another collection made in the same country. Mr. Goering's example from the Sierra Nevada of Merida, at an altitude of 10,000 feet, agrees in every respect. The most salient characters of this Duck are its black bill and generally darker plumage. After leaving Merida, on his last journey, Mr. Goering traversed the line of the Andes to San Cristoval, in the province of Tachira, on the frontiers of Columbia, where he obtained examples of the following thirty-three species :- 1. Microcerculus squamulatus, Scl. et Salv. 2. Dacnis cayana (Linn.). 3. Calliste nigriviridis (Lafr.). 4. cyaneicollis (Lafr. et d'Orb.). 5. guttata (Cab.). 6. Phoenicothraupis, sp. inc., 2 • 7. Saltator magnus (Gm.). 8. Cissopis minor (Tsch.). 9. Orchesticus ater (Gm.). 10. Phonipara pusilla (Sw.). 11. Emberizoides macrurus (Gm.). 12. Fluvicola pica (Bodd.). 13. 3Tyiodynastes chrysocephalus (Tsch.). 14. audax (Gm.). 15. Pipra leucocilla (Linn.). *16. Bupicola peruviana (Lath.). 17. Dendrocolaptes validus (Tsch.). 18. Hypocnemis leucophrys (Tsch.). 19. Chamaza olivacea (Tsch.). 20. Phaethornis guyi (Less.). 21. Sternoclyta cyaneipectus (Gould). 22. Thalurania columbica (Bourc. et Muls.). 23. Nyctibius grandis (Gm.). 24. Antrostomus rufus (Gm.). 25. Nyctidromus albicollis (Gm.). 26. Chloronerpes rubiginosus (Sw.). *27. xanthochlorus, sp. nov. 28. Melanerpes cruentatus (Bodd.). 29. Ceryle amazona (Lath.). 30. Malacoptila mystacalis (Lafr.). 31. Coccyzus americanus (Linn.). *32. Caicapyrilia (Bp.). 33. Milvago chimachima (Vieill.). W e have remarks to make on the following species:- |