( 96 ) 



(No8. 11212, 12232 Cherrie coll.) 



Snapnre, Caura U. : <S d 25. iv., 22. vi., 1.5. v. ''.lO (S. M. Klages). 



La Union : ? 18. xii. 1000 (Andr^). 



Nicare, Caiira R. : 6 ad., ? ad., ? juv. 18. i. I'.iiil (E. Andr^). 



La Pricion : ¥19. ii. lOUl (E. Andre). 



Most of these birds have the feathers of the back and the wing-coverts more 

 distinctly and sharply terminated with yellowish, and more distinctly marked with 

 l)lai'kish spots or bands before the yellowisli tips than the typie-al Roraima specimens, 

 and the wings are shorter. These differences, however, are apjiareutly not (piite 

 constant, and our present material is ])erhaps not sufficient to warrant the creation 

 of a new subspecies. 



(P. umlidatiis is so closely allied to /'. hiifoni tliat it is perhaps better treated 

 as a subspecies of the latter.) 



324. Picumnus stellae sp. n. 



P. fronte nigro, his jihimis in mari macnlis elongatis flavis in foemina rotundatis 

 nlbis ajiicatis, capite superiore relicpio pallide umbrino fusco, liis plumis apice 

 macula alba vel fulvo-alba signatis, dorso fulvescenti-olivaceo, maculis oljscure 

 fuscis, fasciisque indistinctis fulvesceutibus vario, remigibus secnndariis extus 

 stramineo-flavo marginatis perpaullnm virescentibns, corpore subtus flavescenti- 

 albo lineis angustis nigris regulariter transfasciato; rectricibus solito modo coloratis. 



Obs. P. P. imllacei Harg. dicto maxime aflSnis ut videtur, sed corpore subtus 

 omniuo lineis nigro-brunueis transfasciato, uec abdnmine macnlis rotundis signato. 



SS. Al. 54-52, caud. 26^—26, culm. 11— ln^, tars. 12*— lU mm. 



?. „ 51 „ 23i „ 10| „ 12 J 



Hub. C'ircum flumen Orinoco dictum medium. 



T>/pus in Mns. H. v. B. S Maipnres, 6. i. '99 (no. 11677 Gherrie coll.). 



Maipures : S 6 & (bis), 9. i. '99, 6, 8, 9, 28. xii. '98, S <? juv. 6, 9. i. '99; ? ? 28. 

 xii. '98, 19, 27. i. '99. 



"Iris seal (dark); feet plumbeous; bill black, basal half of mandible slate-grey." 



(Nos. 1136G, 11396, 11403, 11034, 11635, 11670, 11677, 11678, 11702, 11703, 

 11767 Cherrie coll.) 



This new Picumnus differs from P. wallacei Harg., which is perhaps its nearest 

 ally, by the abdomen being banded with narrow cross-lines of black like the chest, 

 instead of being marked witli spots of dusky. 



It resembles still more 1'. j/uncf/jro/is Tacz. of Peru, but the ground colour of 

 the hinder part of the pileum is of a pale umber-brown instead of being black, the 

 ear-coverts also pale umber-brown, not blackish ; the area of the yellow spots on the 

 forehead is much more extended, the back more fulvous olive-brown, less olive- 

 green, and the black cross-lines on the undcrparts are mnch narrower ; the abdomen 

 is more whitish, less yellowish, and the bill is shorter. 



We have much pleasure in naming this bird after Mrs. Stella M. Cherrie, who 

 accompanied her husband on his dangerous collecting tri[) to the Orinoco, and aided 

 him very much in collecting specimens of natural history. 



325. Coccyzus americanus (L.). 



Cuculus americanus Lin., Syst. Nat. Ed. X. (1758) p. ill (ex Catesby— Carolina). 



Altagracia : ? 3. xi. '97. 



Nericagna : cj 13. iv. '99. " Iris seal ; feet dusky slate-grey ; bill above black, 



