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Family Coerebidae. 



Coereba lowii sp. nov. 



Type No. 36896, Field Museum of Natural History (Los Roques). 



Adult male: Whole of head and throat black; under parts dark 

 olive green, showing a tinge of gray on the lower abdomen; under 

 tail coverts dark gray; back sooty gray or dull grayish black, not 

 clear black like the crown; rump dark olive green; wings and tail 

 similar to C. wellsi. 



Length (skin), 4.10 in. (104 mm.); wing, 2.40 in. (60.8 mm.); 

 bill, .55 in. (14 mm.); .tarsus, .70 in. (17.80 mm.). 



This species is similar to Coereba wellsi, but differs in having the 

 back distinctly more gray than the crown, not uniform as in wellsi, 

 and the under parts more decidedly olive green. In the four speci- 

 mens taken the dried skins show every indication of a tumid rictus, 

 which does not show at all in specimens of C. laura from Los Testigos, 

 but the color has, of course, faded out, and unfortunately Mr. Ferry 

 made no notes as to the color of the rictus in life; he informs me, 

 however, that he thinks it was red. I have named it in honor of Mr. 

 Percy R. Lowe, the well known English ornithologist. 



Family Miiiotiltidse. 



Seiurus noveboracensis (Gmel.). 



i specimen, d\ taken January 27, 1909. 



Dendroica ruficapilla obscura subsp. nov. 



Type No. 37255, Field Museum of Natural History (Los Roques). 



Adult male: Crown dark chestnut, nearly as dark as in D. r. 

 capitalis from Barbados; back and upper parts dark olive green, 

 some of the feathers on the back with a dark shaft line; rump slightly 

 more yellow than the back, but not so bright as in D. r. rufopileata; 

 under parts deep yellow; throat and breast streaked with orange 

 brown; secondaries and tertials edged with greenish yellow; other- 

 wise similar to D. r. rufopileata except in size. 



Wing, 2.50; tail, 2.15; bill, .38; tarsus, .88. 



This form is similar to D. r. rufopileata, but is decidedly larger 

 and has the back and rump darker olive. The crown is slightly 

 darker chestnut and the under parts deeper yellow; the edgings of 

 the secondaries and tertials are more greenish yellow. The female 

 is larger and somewhat darker above. 



