24 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Remarks. — The new form is decidedly paler than H. c. cachvmians; 

 in this respect it is like the northern H. c. chapmani, from which it 

 differs in the almost immaculate hning of the wing. H. c. chapmani 

 has the axillars and under wing coverts much, often heavily, spotted 

 with rusty. 



There are now five forms of this species, which, though close, are 

 recognizable; they are:^ — 



Herpdoihcrcs cachintums cachinnans (Linne). Gviianas; Venezuela? 



Herpetothcrcs cachinnans queribimdus Bangs and Penard. Southern 

 Brazil; Paraguay; Bolivia. 



Hcrpetoiheres cachinnans maestus Bangs and Noble. Northwest 

 Peru; southwest Ecuador? 



Herpefoihcres cachinnans fulvcsccns Chapman. Tropical zone of 

 Pacific coast from eastern Panama to Ecuador. 



Hcrpetoiheres cachinnans chapmani Bangs and Penard. Mexico 

 to western Panama. 



EupsiTTULA astec vicinalis, subsp. nov. 



r?/^T.— M. C. Z. 48,482. Adult d^. Mexico: Tamaulipas. Alta- 

 mira. 24 December, 1908. E. B. Armstrong. 



Characters.- — Similar to E. astcc astec (Souancc), Vera Cruz to Costa 

 Rica, but paler and brighter green above and much paler and greener, 

 less brownish, below; upper parts between Parrot-green and Calliste- 

 green (of Ridgway); throat and chest light yellowish olive; middle 

 of breast and belly Javel -green. 



Measurements. — Type, adult cf ; wing, 141; tail, 119; culmen 

 from cere, 19. Topotype, M. C. Z. 48,480, adult 9 ; wing, 135; tail, 

 111; culmen from cere, 19. 



Remarks. — While collecting for Dr. John C. Phillips in Tamaulipas, 

 F. B. Armstrong took ten specimens of this new paroquet at Altamira 

 in December, 1908. There is no variation in the series, and when laid 

 out beside a series of true E. astcc the Tamaulipas birds look almost 

 as if they represented a distinct species, so much paler and brighter 

 are they in color. 



Pterophanes cyanopterus (Eraser). 



Trochilvs cyanopterus Eraser ex. Loddiges's Ms., Proc. Zool. soc, 

 1840, p. 17 (no type-locality given). 



Ornismya temminckii (not Ornismya temminckii Lesson, 1829 = 

 Heliomaster sqnamosns (Temminck)) Boissonneau, Rev. zool., 1839, 

 p. 354 (Bogota). 



