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Family Sylviidse. 



Polioptila plumbiceps Lawrence. 

 19 specimens, 7 d\ 8 9 , 4 ? . 



Family Turdidse. 



Planesticus gymnophthalmus (Caban.). 



i specimen, a female, which does not apparently differ from speci- 

 mens from the mainland. The species has not previously been 

 recorded from Margarita. 



Platycichla venezuelensis atra subsp. nov. 



Platycichla carbonaria Robinson and Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., Vol. XVIII, 1895, p. 681. 



Type No. 37714, Field Museum of Natural History (Margarita 

 Island, Venezuela.). 



Adult male: Whole of head, nape, and under parts (except sides 

 of body, flanks, and under tail coverts) black; sides of body, flanks, 

 and under tail coverts dark slaty gray; back and rump slaty gray, 

 many of the feathers tipped with black; scapulars slaty gray, edged 

 with black; wings and tail black; bill, legs, feet, and eye-ring yellow. 



Length (skin), 8.40; wing, 4.50; tail, 3.50; tarsus, i; bill, .72. 



This form is similar to P. melanopleura Sharp, but differs in hav- 

 ing the entire head black and the under tail coverts and axillaries 

 gray. From P. venezuelensis it differs in having the entire under 

 parts (except the sides, flanks, and under tail coverts) black, while 

 the mainland form as represented by specimens from Venezuela in 

 this Museum have only the throat and breast black and the rest of 

 the under parts gray. Females from Margarita do not appear to 

 differ from those of P. venezuelensis. 



Mr. John F. Ferry informs me he found these birds common in the 

 dense forests of the humid mountain regions, particularly at El Copey 

 above La Asuncion. 



