AUGUST, 1916. NEW SOUTH AMERICAN BIRDS CORY. 341 



Xiphocolaptes promeropirhynchus iguatensis subsp. nov. 



Type from Jua, near Iguatu, Ceara, Brazil. Adult male, No. 49117, 

 Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by R. H. Becker, 

 September i, 1913. 



General marking approaching X. p. promeropirhynchus, but colora- 

 tion quite different and very much paler on the under parts. The 

 wings and tail are decidedly lighter rufous (less chestnut rufous) ; crown 

 and back grayish olive brown, the crown slightly darker and with narrow 

 whitish shaft streaks; rump and upper tail coverts bright rufous; under 

 parts pale grayish brown, streaked with white; middle of throat dull 

 whitish; no black spots or bars on belly, these being replaced by a few 

 obscure (almost obsolete) small spots and broken bars of pale grayish 

 brown; under wing coverts pale rufous, irregularly barred with black; 

 bill blackish at the base, the rest pale horn color. 



Wing, 126; tail, no; bill, 41 mm. 



Other examples of this very distinct form were taken near Jua by 

 Mr. Becker. I have not seen X. p. berlepschi Snethlage, but from the 

 description it is quite different. 



Picolaptes f uscus atlanticus subsp. nov. 



Type from Serra Baturite, Ceara, Brazil. Male, No. 49116, Field 

 Museum of Natural History. Collected by R. H. Becker, July 13, 1913. 



Similar to P. f. f uscus (VieilL), but differs in being larger; the rump 

 and tail more chestnut rufous; the throat tinged with pale buff, and the 

 under parts more tinged with ochraceous. The feathers of the throat 

 are very narrowly edged with dusky. 



Wing, 87; tail, 80; bill, 29 mm. 



Campylorhamphus trochilirostris major Ridgway* 



Several specimens of this well marked subspecies (which agree per- 

 fectly in size and coloration with the type specimen in the U. S. National 

 Museum) were secured at Jua and Serra Baturite, Ceara, Brazil. The 

 exact type locality being previously unknown, being given as "Brazil," 

 I now designate for it the Province of Ceara, Brazil. 



Taenioptera cinerea obscura subsp. nov. 



Type from Sao Marcello, Rio Preto, Bahia, Brazil. Adult male, 

 No. 49125, Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by R. H. 

 Becker, March 18, 1914. 



*Bds. N. and M. Am., V, p. 269, 1911. 



