Bangs — New or Rare Birds from. Western Colombia. 75 



Characters. — Similar to H. leucosticta leucosticta (Cabanis) of Guiana, 

 but colors of upper parts and flanks paler, duller, nuich less chestnut or 

 reddish brown— in the adult <3^ of the new form the back and wings are 

 dull russet, the rump and upper tail coverts clear, pale russet, the flanks 

 and under tail coverts cinnanion-russet. The female is similar, but slightly 

 duller in color and with the pileum not solidly black, but dark brown 

 medianly. 



Measurements. — Type, adult d*, wing, 62; tail, ;>1.5; tarsus, 23.5; cul- 

 men, 16.5. Adult 9 , No. 2.S,445, from near Jimenez, western Colombia, 

 April 16, 1907; wing, 58; tail, 30; tarsus, 22; culmen, 15.5. 



Phoenicothraupis cristata Lawr. 



Three adult specimens, two males and a female, were secured at Nar- 

 anjito, Rio Dagua, in June and July, 1908. 



This species still remains so rare in collections that I have thought it 

 wortli while to make this record. 



