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Bangs — Notes on Birds from Western Colombia. 



Henicorhina leucophrys guttata, if I am right in referring the three 

 specimens before me to that form, as I think I am, apparently needs 

 comparison with none other of the subspecies of //. leucophrys, being 

 much darker than H. 1. berlepschi Ridg. of western Ecuador or than any 

 of the Mexican and Guatemalan races. 



Basileuterus melanotis daedalus subsp. nov. 



Type from San Antonio, RioCali, western Colombia, 5, sou feet altitude, 

 adult d\ No. 20709, coll. of E. A. and <>. Bangs. Collected December 27, 

 1907, by M. G. Palmer. 



Characters. — Similar to Basileuterus melanotis melanotis Lawr. of Costa 

 Rica and Panama, but upper parts greener— olive green, less olive or 

 greenish-olive; under parts much more buffy yellow — about maize yellow 

 (in B. melanotis melanotis the under parts are between canary and sul- 

 phur yellow) ; auricular region with much more black, only a small spot 

 below the eye burly; black loral spot much larger, involving the whole 

 of the lores. 



MEASUREMENTS. 



Dacnis venusta fuliginata subsp. nov. 



Type from Jimenez, western Colombia, (altitude 1 ,600 feet) adult cT, No. 

 20229 coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected February 2:'., 1907, by 

 M. G. Palmer. 



Characters. — Similar in color pattern to true I>. venUsta Lawr. of Pan- 

 ama and Costa Pica, but with under parts much deeper black — throat, 

 breast and under tail coverts deep sooty black, a faint greenish tinge on 

 belly only. (In true D. venusta the entire under parts except, of course. 

 the thighs, are dark, greenish black — "invisible green" Ridgway.) 

 Smaller, with a much smaller bill. 



Measurements. — Type, adult d 1 : wing, ('>'.'>; tail, 39; tarsus, 14.5; ex- 

 posed culmen, in. 5. (Fifteen adult males of true 1>. venusta in my collec- 

 tion from Panama and Costa Pica afford average measurements of about : 

 wing, 67.5; tail, 41.5; tarsus, L5.5; exposed culmen, 12.5.) 



Calospiza gyroloides deleticia subsp. nov. 



Type from San Antonio, western Colombia, altitude 5,800 feet, adult 

 <?, No. 20508, coll. of F. A. & 0. Bangs. Collected Dec. c, 1907, by 

 M. 1 1. Palmer. 



Characters. — Like true C. gyroloides ( Lair.) of Central America, in all 

 respects except that the lesser wing coverts ("shoulders") Are green not 

 yellow — paler, more yellowish and more shining green that the rest of the 



