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



and three males and a female (?) from Tortuga Island in this Museum, 

 collected by John F. Ferry. 



Piaya cayana cearae subsp. nov. 



Type from Jua, near Iguatu, Ceara, Brazil. Adult female, No. 

 47457, Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by R. H. Becker, 

 August 20, 1913. 



Back approaching hazel brown, but coloration duller and less rufes- 

 cent than in P. c. colombiana from Colombia, and nearer P. c. pallescens 

 (from state of Bahia) ; throat nearly as in pallescens. 



Nearest to P. c. pallescens, but differs in having upper parts lighter; 

 upper surface of rectrices brighter and more rufescent (less tinged with 

 purplish); lower abdomen and thighs pale ashy (not neutral gray); 

 under tail coverts shading into pallid neutral gray, decidedly paler and 

 more whitish than in any other known form; under surface of rectrices 

 strongly rufescent, similar to P. c. colombiana, not dull blackish tinged 

 with rufous as in specimens examined of P. c. pallescens from various 

 localities in Bahia; middle of abdomen ashy white. 



Wing, 156; tail, 280; bill, 26; tarsus, 39 mm. 



Specimens examined from Jua, 2 d% 2 ? ; from Quixada, Ceara, i 9 . 

 A specimen from Pernambuco in the U. S. National Museum collection 

 (No. 39704) appears to be intermediate between this form and P. c. 

 pallescens, but approaches nearer to pallescens than to cearce. The 

 Pernambuco bird approaches cearce in the coloration of the lower 

 abdomen, under tail coverts and flanks, but is much nearer pallescens 

 in the coloration of the upper parts and the darker and more purplish 

 upper surface of rectrices and the less rufous under surface of those 

 feathers. 



Piaya melanogaster ochracea subsp. nov. 



Type from Yurimaguas, Yane Yaca, Peru. Female, No. 44096, 

 Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by M. P. Anderson, 

 September 8, 1912. 



Similar to P. m. melanogaster, but differs in having the bill smaller 

 and general coloration somewhat paler; crown paler and more ashy 

 gray; upper parts, throat and breast more tinged with ochraceous 

 rufous. 



Wing, 131; tail, 216; tarsus, 37; bill (oilmen), 24; depth of bill, 

 12 mm. 



Compared with specimens from British Guiana these differences 

 appear to be constant. 



