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Gulea, Province of Pichincha, but it differs from both forms in its broad 

 tail band (which measures 26 mm.) and absence of the white markings 

 on the second (outer) primary which is strongly marked in C. s. andina 

 and usually present, but in a very much less degree, in cauca. If we 

 assume this puzzling specimen to be an intergrade, we are confronted 

 by a problem to determine to which race it should be referred on 

 account of the wide tail band and plain outer webs of the second 

 (outer) primaries, characters which are not found in either of the 

 other Ecuadorian races. Even should the spotting of the under 

 parts ultimately disappear with maturity (which so far as we know 

 in strongly spotted birds is questionable), it would be difficult to 

 identify it with any known form on account of the other differences. 

 I have therefore provisionally considered C. s. Gequatorialis to repre- 

 sent a distinct subspecies from an unknown locality, until a much 

 larger series of specimens from Ecuador is available for comparison and 

 the relationship of forms inhabiting that region can be more satisfac- 

 torily determined. 



Cerchneis sparveria andina subsp. nov. 



Type from Quito (alt. about 9300 ft.), Ecuador. Male, No. 123965, 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York. Collected by 

 Wm. B. Richardson, May 21, 1913. 



Range: Ecuador, probably largely or wholly confined to altitudes 

 ranging from 5000 to 13000 feet. 



Characters: Male. Similar to C. s. ochracea in the deeply colored 

 ochraceous cinnamon under parts, but differs in somewhat larger size; 

 much longer tail; much narrower tail band; and more pronounced and 

 more numerous white spots on the outer webs of the outer primaries. 

 Under parts deep ochraceous cinnamon, with a few, mostly small and 

 narrow, black spots on the sides of the abdomen (other specimens have 

 the black spots on the under parts practically absent or when present 

 they are small, linear in shape and usually confined to the sides of the 

 body) ; outer webs of the second, third, fourth, and fifth outer primaries 

 with large white spots (the second usually with three large exposed spots, 

 and a fourth concealed by the coverts; the third with four, the fourth 

 with two and three, and in typical specimens from high altitudes the fifth 

 and often the sixth with at least one); greatest breadth of the black 

 subterminal band on the tail, measured at the shaft of the feather, 

 1 8 mm. ; inner web of outer rectrix rufous, with a subterminal black band 

 and the tip white; under wing coverts white, spotted with black, and 

 the outer portion strongly tinged with buff. 



