292 FIELD MUSEUM or NATURAL HISTORY ORNITHOLOGY, VOL. I. 



Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by N. Dearborn, Feb- 

 ruary n, 1908. 



Similar to C. luteola luteola, but the general plumage is darker, the 

 upper parts being almost black; the gray throat is decidedly darker and 

 the rump and under parts deeper yellow and slightly more orange. 



Length (skin), 105 mm.; wing, 56; tail, 42; tarsus, 17; culmen, 13. 



Diglossa sittoides intermedia subsp, nov. 



Type from Cajamarca, Peru (altitude about 9,000 feet). Adult 

 male, No. 44472, Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by 

 W. H. Osgood and M. P. Anderson, April 19, 1912. 



Similar to Diglossa sittoides sittoides but differs in haying the crown 

 and forehead bluish plumbeous like the back, the lores and about the 

 eye slightly darker (but not so dark as in sittoides}, and the under parts 

 much paler shading to buffy white on the middle of the belly. 



Total length (skin), 115 mm.; wing, 59; tail, 50; bill, 10; tarsus, 18. 



Synallaxis candei venezuelensis subsp. nov. 



Type from Rio Aurare, Venezuela (about 15 miles east of Maracai- 

 bo). Adult male, No. 44473, Field Museum of Natural History. 

 Collected by W. H. Osgood and S. G. Jewett, January 19, 1911. 



Similar to Synallaxis candei candei but having a narrow line of white 

 feathers extending from the nostril to the eye. The line of demarkation 

 between the blackish ends of the tail feathers and their rufous bases 

 is much more abrupt than in candei and not gradually shading from one 

 to the other. 



Total length (skin), 155 mm.; wing, 157; tail, 70; bill, 12; tarsus, 20. 



Atlaptes castaneifrons tamae subsp. nov. 



Type from Paramo de Tama, Venezuela (near the Colombian line, 

 headwaters of Tachira River, altitude between 6,000 and 7,000 feet). 

 Adult male, No. 44188, Field Museum of Natural History. Collected 

 by W. H. Osgood and S. G. Jewett, March i, 1911. 



Similar to Atlaptes castaneifrons, but crown much darker chestnut 

 and narrow frontal band black; general color of upper parts blacker and 

 of under parts darker and more uniformly gray. 



Length (skin), 170 mm.; wing, 75; tail, 78; tarsus, 26; culmen, 13. 



Seven specimens taken, five males and two females. The females 

 are similar to the males, but slightly smaller. 



