288 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ORNITHOLOGY, VOL. I. 



Chelidoptera tenebrosa pallida subsp. nov. 



Type from Empalado Savannas, 30 miles east of Maracaibo, Vene- 

 zuela. Male, No. 43380, Field Museum of Natural History. Collected 

 by W. H. Osgood, April 7, 1911. 



Similar to C. tenebrosa tenebrosa, but the chestnut abdomen paler. 

 Black of the breast shading into slaty gray on lower part and separated 

 from the rufous chestnut of the abdomen by a well defined band of 

 white; cubital edge of wing tinged with rufous chestnut. 



Length (skin), 148 mm.; wing, 112; tail, 58; culmen, 16. 



Four specimens of this new subspecies are in the Field Museum 

 collection and have been compared with sixteen examples of C. tenebrosa 

 tenebrosa from British Guiana and Peru. Peruvian specimens apparently 

 are not separable from those from British Guiana. 



Picumnus venezuelensis sp. nov. 



Type from Encontrados, Zulia. Venezuela. Male, No. 34631, Field 

 Museum of Natural History. Collected by N. Dearborn, February 13, 

 1908. 



Special characters. Approaches P. cinnamomeus cinnamomeus, but 

 differs in being darker and having the under parts deeper chestnut; the 

 anterior part of the forehead rufous chestnut, and no white spots on the 

 posterior part of the crown. 



Description. Back, rump and scapulars rufous brown; under parts 

 darker, approaching rufous chestnut; nape and sides of the head dark 

 like the under parts; frontal band rufous chestnut on anterior part, 

 shading posteriorly into buff; crown black, the feathers broadly tipped 

 with golden yellow nearly as in cinnamomeus but without white spots 

 at the extreme hinder part as in that species ; wings and tail as in cinna- 

 momeus. 



Length (skin), 97 mm.; wing, 53; tail, 33; bill, 12; tarsus, 12. 



Phaethornis anthropilus fuscicapillus subsp. nov. 



Type from Orope, Zulia, Venezuela. Adult female, No. 43343, 

 Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by N. Dearborn, March 

 6, 1908. 



Similar to P. anthropilus anthropilus, but crown darker brown 

 (blackish brown); throat streaks darker and heavier; breast darker; 

 back darker green and tips of feathers on lower back and rump more 

 rufous buff. 



Length (skin), 145 mm.; wing, 55; tail, 66; bill, 31. 



