220 Riley Descriptions of Three New Birds from Venezuela. 



color; under tail-coverts dusky with whitish edgings; wings blackish, the 

 coverts prominently edged with bistre, the inner primaries and secondaries 

 light rufous near the base, the rufous divided by a black line along the 

 shaft in the primaries; the under wing blackish, the inner primaries and 

 secondaries edged with vinaceous-cinnamon ; under wing-coverts vina- 

 ceous-cinnamon, whitish along the bend of the wing; tail blackish, the 

 three outer feathers margined on the outer web with white and rather 

 broadly-tipped diagonally with hair brown with some obscure black 

 mottlings, the two central feathers narrowly margined with hair brown. 

 Bill and feet (in skin) black. 



AVing, 65.5; tail, 95; culmen, 10.5 ; tarsus, 20 ; middle toe, 12.5 mm. A 

 female collected at the same locality is similar to the male and measures : 

 Wing, 64; tail, 89 ; culmen, 10; tarsus, 19; middle toe, 12.5 mm. Three 

 unsexed specimens of Leptasthenura andicola from Ecuador average : Wing, 

 68.8 ; tail, 81.3; culmen, 10 ; tarsus, 20.3; middle toe, 13.2 mm. 



Haplospiza montosa sp. nov. 



Type from San Antonio, Venezuela, 3,000 meters. No. 190,413, U. S. 

 National Museum, c? ad. August 15, 1903. 



Specific characters. Similar to Haplospiza nivaria Bangs, but with a longer 

 bill, darker both above and below, and with the feet and tarsi horn color 

 not black. 



Description. Above blackish slate, darker on the interscapular region and 

 lighter on the rump ; pileum showing indistinct striations ; the forehead 

 and lores washed with pale gray ; below slate color, whitish on the anal 

 region ; under tail-coverts whitish with dark centers ; tail blackish ; wings 

 blackish, all the feathers edged with the color of the back. Bill (in skin) 

 blackish, lighter along the center of lower mandible; tarsi and feet horn 

 color. Wing, 80.5 ; tail, 61 ; culmen, 12 ; tarsus, 23 ; middle toe, 15.5 mm. 



Female similar above to that of Haplospiza nivaria but much more heavily 

 streaked below with black, the streaks heavier on the chest. Wing, 73.5 ; 

 tail, 55.5 ; culmen, 11 ; tarsus, 21 ; middle toe, 14 mm. 



Remarks. While the male does not differ greatly from //. nivaria, the 

 female is quite another bird. It is heavily streaked below with broad 

 black streaks and though these are heavier on the chest it is not as lightly 

 streaked on the lower breast and belly as H. nivaria. Besides the type 

 there are two immature males in the plumage of the female, and one adult 

 female, all collected at the same locality and on the same day. 



Pheucticus uropygialis meridensis subsp. nov. 



Type from Pedregora, Venezuela, 2,500 meters. No. 190,410, U. S. Na 

 tional Museum, c? ad. April 29, 1903. 



Subspecific characters. Similar to Pheucticus uropygialis Sclaterand Salvin, 

 but rump more extensively yellow, the interscapular region mottled with 

 yellow, the breast deeper yellow, and the flanks without black spotting. 



Description. Head, chin, throat, and jugulum black; feathers of the 

 interscapular region gray at the base, then a small white spot followed by 

 a small lemon yellow spot on one or both webs and tipped with black ; 



