90 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



291a. Sporophila minuta centralis, subsp. nov. 



Type. — M. C. Z. 40,784. Adult cf . Panama, near Panama City, 

 19 May, 1904. W. W. Brown, Jr. 



Characters. — In adult male plumage similar to S. m. minuta (Linne), 

 but averaging slightly smaller; the upper parts browner gray, not so 

 pure and clear gray; the underparts and rump much lighter rufous 

 cinnamon to cinnamon rufous. (In all the Surinam birds the under 

 parts and rump are very deep cinnamon rufous, the difference being 

 apparent even in some very old Cayenne trade skins). 



Measurements. — Type, adult d^ ; wing, 49; tail 35.5; tarsus, 13.5; 

 exposed culmen, 7.5. 



Remarks. — We would refer the Colombian bird to this northern 

 form. For further measurements see Ridgway, (Birds of North and 

 Middle America, 1901, 1, p. 567). 



292. Sporophila americana (Gmelin). 



Twelve specimens, both sexes, adult and immature. Vicinity of 

 Paramaribo, January, March, April, May, June, July, August, and 

 September. 



293. Sporophila lineola (Linne). 



Nine specimens, both sexes, adult and immature, Vicinity of 

 Paramaribo, May, June, August, and September. 



294. VOLATINIA JACARINI SPLENDENS (VieiUot). 



Six specimens, both sexes, adult and immature, Vicinity of Para- 

 maribo, Lelydorp, and Rijsdijkweg, April, May, August, and De- 

 cember. 



295. PiTYLUS GROSsus (Linne). 

 One adult 9 , Altonaweg, May. 



