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



44389, Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by H. F. Raven, 

 May 23, 1910. 



General color green, the under parts lighter and more yellowish 

 especially on the throat ; forehead and greater portion of crown, upper 

 edges of lores, and a streak under the eye dull nopal red ; the red of the 

 crown separated from the eye by a narrow streak of dull green; con- 

 cealed portions of the feathers of the crown yellow; cheeks bluish green; 

 feathers of the nape and base of crown slightly tinged with yellowish 

 olive; cubital edge of wing bluish black; bend of wing and outer primary 

 coverts scarlet; outer portion of under wing coverts scarlet; inner 

 portion bright canary yellow, but the greater feathers dull green like 

 the inner edge of the under surface of the quills ; quills black, all except 

 the outermost one edged with green on the outer webs; scapulars and 

 rump grass green; tail feathers yellow, edged with green on the outer 

 webs ; all the tail feathers with the exception of the two outer ones with 

 a band of black at or very near the tips, the black band increasing in 

 size towards the central feathers and not complete on the third, the two 

 outer feathers tipped with green; the black band at the end of the middle 

 tail feathers is separated from the yellow by a patch of green; shafts 

 of rectrices brownish black; bill yellowish at the tip, dark at the base; 

 feet dark (blackish in dried skin). 



Total length (skin), 145 mm. (probably longer in life); wing, 120;- 

 tail, 52; tarsus, 10; oilmen, 19. 



The female is similar to the male, but differs in having less extent 

 of red on the bend of wing and under wing coverts; the red of the fore- 

 head extends upon the lores, and the red spot below the eye is larger 

 and extends further downward and backward; the green on the outer 

 webs of outer primaries and on the shoulder is slightly tinged with 

 bluish. 



This very distinct species approaches nearest to Urochroma dilectis- 

 sima, but may be distinguished at once by its red crown and other 

 characters. Four specimens, 2 males and 2 females, were secured by 

 Mr. Raven. 



Piaya cayana venezuelensis subsp. nov. 



Type from Orope, Zulia, Venezuela. Adult female, No. 34589, 

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

 6, 1908. 



Similar to P. cayana cayana, but having the general plumage de- 

 cidedly darker; the upper parts deep rufous chestnut and the under 

 parts more uniformly dusky. 



