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Family Trochilidse. 



Doleromya pallida Richmond. 



4 specimens, 3 d\ i 9 , which apparently do not differ, from speci- 

 mens from Margarita. 



Chrysolampis mosquitus (Linn.). 

 2 specimens, i 9 , i ?. 



Family Friiigillidse. 



Tiaris tortugensis sp. nov. 



Type No. 36977, Field Museum of Natural History (Tortuga 

 Island). 



Adult male: Forehead and about half of crown blackish, grad- 

 ually shading into olive gray, the black extending more on the crown 

 than in T. sharpei ; sides of head and whole throat and breast black ; 

 abdomen gray, the black of the breast ending rather abruptly; back 

 olive gray, paler than sharpei; under wing coverts gray with no 

 tinge of olive; otherwise resembles T. sharpei. 



Wing, 2.14; tail, 1.75; bill, .40; tarsus, .62. 



Female: Above ash gray with hardly a trace of olive, paler than 

 sharpei; under parts shading from very pale brownish ashy on the 

 throat to ashy white on the belly. 



Nine specimens of this supposed new form, 8 males and i female, 

 were taken. Mr. Ferry states that it was common and nesting. 



Family Coerebidse. 



Mr. John F. Ferry procured a series of n specimens of a well 

 marked new species of Coereba on Tortuga, which I have given his 

 name. 

 Coereba ferryi sp. nov. 



Type No. 36997, Field Museum of Natural History (Tortuga 

 Island, February 2, 1909). 



Male: Similar in size and coloration to specimens of C. luteola 

 from Margarita and coast of Venezuela, but differs in having the 

 entire forehead and front of crown white and the secondaries and 

 tertials narrowly tipped with white. In the type the frontal white 

 patch extends upon the crown at least .30 in. from base of upper 



