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



Specimens examined: Colombia Cundinamarca, 73% 49; 

 Villavicencio, i d 1 ; Honda, Magdalena River, 40% 19; Bogota, 2 d", 

 3 9 ; Rio Toche, Tolima, i 9 ; Andalucia, eastern Andes, id 1 , 2 9 . 



Remarks: All the males which I have seen have two white spots or 

 streaks on the outer web of the second (outer) primary, and, with one 

 exception, three well marked spots on the third. Twelve males have 

 the crown plain and only two show a trace of rufous. The coloration 

 of the inner web of the outer rectrix is very variable. Five males have 

 it rufous, with the usual subterminal black band and white tip; four 

 have it part rufous and part white, with two black bands; and three 

 have it alternately banded with black and white, without rufous. 



Cerchneis sparveria ochracea Cory. 



Cerchneis sparverius ochracea Cory, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Pub., 

 Ornith. Series, I, No. 8, 1915, p. 298. 



Type locality: Colon (alt. about 2300 ft.), Tachira, western Vene- 

 zuela. 



Range: Western Venezuela and northeastern Colombian region 

 north and east of Cundinamarca; probably intergrading with intermedia 

 in the south and isabellina or distincta in eastern Venezuela. 



Characters: Adult male. Greater portion of under parts ochraceous 

 rufous cinnamon or ochraceous cinnamon, becoming ochraceous buff 

 on the thighs and pale ochraceous buff on the under tail coverts; black 

 spots on under parts confined to sides of body and nearly or quite 

 concealed when the wing is closed; crown dark slaty gray, darker than 

 in brevipennis and about the same as cauca and peruviana; outer web 

 of second outer primary without white spots or occasionally with a slight 

 trace; outer web of third outer primary with from one to three small 

 spots or short narrow streaks; inner web of outer rectrix (in type) 

 rufous, with one subterminal black band of black, and grayish white 

 tip. 



Male: Wing (of type), 185 ;* tail, 133 ; tarsus, 34; tail band, 33 mm. 

 Average of nine males from Merida and Colon, Tachira, Venezuela, 

 and Paramo de Tama and Andalucia, Colombia: Wing, 180 to 185, 

 average 183; tail, 127 to 132, average 130; length of subterminal black 

 band on the tail, 27 to 33, average 29 mm. 



Female: Wing, 191 to 195, average 193; tail, 135 to 139, average 

 136 mm. 



Distinguishing characters: This race, on account of the deeply 

 colored and practically unspotted under parts (black spots when pres- 



* By mistake the measurement of the wing in the original description of the 

 type was given as 190 mm. 





