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One male in the series examined has a strong rufescent wash on the 

 entire plumage, the reddish suffusion being especially marked on the 

 rump and posterior under parts. The others agree in being uniformly 

 of a grayish cast. 



67. CONOPODERAS ATYPHA AGASSIZI, subsp. nov.^ 



Characters. — Similar to Conopodcras atypha crypta but back slightly 

 grayer, crown distinctly darker than the back. 



Type.— U. S. N. M. 212,491. Male. Polynesia: Paumotu Islands; 

 Apataki, 7 October, 1899. C. H. Townsend. 



Description. — Crown slightly grayer than olive-brown; hind neck, 

 back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts between drab and hair 

 brown; rump between smoke-gray and light grayish olive; rectrices 

 and remiges olive-brown; lesser and middle wing coverts drab; 

 greater wing coverts olive-brown, each feather margined broadly with 

 drab; rectrices and remiges margined lightly with drab or light drab; 

 no light tips evident on rectrices; spot on lower eyelid, and super- 

 ciliary stripe above and behind eye olive-buff, the superciliary more 

 or less obscure anteriorly; loral feathers fuscous with obscure paler 

 tips; auricular region between drab and hair-brown, paler anteriorly; 

 under surface whitish; throat, middle of breast, and upper abdomen 

 washed lightly with pale olive-buff; lower abdomen and under tail 

 coverts whitish; sides of breast becoming strongly grayish; under 

 wing coverts whitish; bend of wing marguerite-yellow. 



Measurements. — Male (one specimen. Type) wing 89.0; tail 77.7; 

 exposed culmen 19.0; tarsus 28.0. 



Range. — Island of Apataki, Paumotu Islands. 



Remarks. — One specimen, the type, was secured on Apataki, 7 

 October. This bird is nearest the form inhabiting Makemo Island, 

 but differs from it in several particulars, none of which come within 

 the range of individual variation as shown in the entire series of 

 Conopoderas atypha examined. The crown is distinctly darker than 

 the back, and in addition the under wing coverts and under -tail coverts 

 are much paler. 



68. Conopoderas atypha nesiarcha, subsp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to Conopoderas atypha atypha but bill shorter; 

 coloration above averaging more brownish, below more hea\'ily 

 suffused with buff, 



1 Named in honor of Alexander Agassiz. 



