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



Wing, 175; tail, 80; tarsus, 48; culmen, 17 mm. 



This new race may be distinguished at a glance from 5. c. cunicularia 

 by its more rufous brown coloration and less whitish marking, but it 

 approaches nearer to it than it does to the northern Brazilian form, which 

 I assume to be 5. c. grallaria Temm. (as according to Spix the type local- 

 ity may have been Para). Brazilian specimens from the Rio Branco 

 region and lower Amazon agree fairly well with Temminck's description 

 and plate, certainly much more so than do Bahia specimens. Birds from 

 the Rio Branco, however, are very similar to those from Margarita 

 Island (5. c. brachyptera Richmond), although they average slightly 

 darker and four out of five of the Rio Branco specimens show a few 

 inconspicuous spots and irregular bars on the rump and upper tail 

 coverts, which are apparently wanting in Margarita birds. 



Speotyto cunicularia intermedia subsp. nov. 



Type from Pacasmayo, Peru. Female, No. 44132, Field Museum 

 of Natural History. Collected by W. H. Osgood and M. P. Anderson, 

 April 2, 1912. 



Intermediate between 5. c. nanodes and S. c. puensis; approaching 

 puensis in the coloration and markings of the upper parts and nearest 

 nanodes in the markings of the under parts. From nanodes it differs in 

 having the upper parts paler brown and a much more whitish streaked 

 appearance (approaching puensis}, the whitish marking being much 

 purer and less buffy and the secondaries being broadly tipped with 

 white. The under parts more nearly resemble nanodes, being strongly 

 marked with brown, but in intermedia the irregular brown markings 

 are somewhat heavier and extend lower down on the flanks. From 5. c. 

 puensis it differs in the heavy and more extensive brown markings on 

 the under parts (which in puensis are very much paler and narrower and 

 become almost obsolete on the lower abdomen). The upper parts are 

 similar in coloration and general marking with the noticeably large 

 amount of white on the feathers, except on the crown, which is darker 

 brown and the white markings much less numerous. 



Wing, 165; tail, 89; tarsus, 39 mm. 



Podager nacunda minor subsp. nov. 



Type from Boa Vista, Rio Branco, Brazil. Adult male, No. 45060, 

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

 R. H. Becker, February 2, 1913. 



Similar to Podager nacunda but smaller, and the black markings on 

 crown and scapulars much smaller. 



