DESCRIPTIONS OF TWENTY-EIGHT NEW SPECIES 

 AND SUBSPECIES OF NEOTROPICAL BIRDS 



BY CHARLES B. CORY 



Nothocercus Julius venezuelensis subsp. no-u. 



Type from Paramo de Tama (near source of the Tachira River), 

 western Venezuela (close to the Colombian line), altitude about 7500 

 feet. Adult male, No. 43208, Field Museum of Natural History. 

 Collected by W. H. Osgood, February 26, 1911. 



Similar to Nothocercus Julius, but general color brighter, forehead 

 and sides of the head more rufous and nape darker; primaries blackish; 

 lower part of throat or foreneck grayish and not vermiculated; breast 

 clear tawny ochraceous, without vermiculation, the color decidedly 

 more ochraceous than in Julius; feathers of the flanks and thighs tipped 

 with yellowish brown and narrowly barred with black, but the bars 

 are broken and much narrower than in Julius. 



Length (skin), 305 mm.; wing, 190; culmen, 26; tarsus, 160. 



Eupsychortyx cristatus continentis subsp. nov. 



Type from El Panorama, Rio Aurare (about fifteen miles east of 

 Maracaibo), northwestern Venezuela. Adult male. No. 44088, Field 

 Museum of Natural History. Collected by W. H. Osgood and S. G. 

 Jewett , January 22, 1911. 



Similar to Eupsychortyx cristatus of the islands of Curacoa and 

 Aruba, but larger and with black stripe on side of throat and black 

 superciliary stripe much wider; middle of belly distinctly darker chest- 

 nut-rufous and with less black marking. The white markings on the 

 feathers of the under parts largely replaced by pale buff; under tail 

 coverts tawny rufous, becoming whitish buff on the edges and with 

 conspicuous brownish black centers. 



Wing, 104 mm.; tail, 75; tarsus, 30; culmen, 14. 



Urochroma costaricensis sp. nov. 



Type from the vicinity of Limon, Costa Rica. Adult male. No. 



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