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Type No. 51,152, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Rio Yapa- 

 cani, Bolivia, February 18, 1915; Jose Steinbach. 



Microrhopias melanogastris Hiaca subsp. nov. 



Decidedly larger than either Microrhopias melanogastris melanogastris 

 (Pelzeln) or M. m. bahix (Hellmayr), and with the flanks in the male 

 more extensively white. Wing (type) 57; tail, 62; bill, 13.5. 



Type No. 51,582, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Villa 

 Montes, Rio Pilcomayo, Bolivia, October 7, 1915; Jose Steinbach. 



Xiphocolaptes obsoletus sp. nov. 



Somewhat resembling Xiphocolaptes emigrans costaricensis Ridgway, 

 but general coloration much darker, between Brussels brown and raw 

 umber; the pileum and sides of the head deep brown or blackish, with 

 bufly streaking; under parts more distinctly streaked, especially an- 

 teriorly; bill shorter, stouter, and paler. Wing (type), 144; tail, 117; 

 bill, 46; tarsus, 29. 



Type No. 50,881, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult female; Rio 

 Yapacani, Bolivia, September 21, 1914; Jose Steinbach. 



Xiphocolaptes procerus rostratus subsp. nov. 



Similar to Xiphocolaptes procerus procerus Cabanis and Heine, but 

 averaging larger, the bill especially being proportionately longer and 

 stouter; coloration decidedly more rufescent, less olivaceous ; and streak- 

 ing of under parts wider and more conspicuous. 



Type No. 52,771, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Jaraquiel, 

 Bolivar, Colombia, March 4, 1916; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Xiphocolaptes major obscurus nom. nov. 



The above name is proposed to replace the recently described Xipho- 

 colaptes major saturatus Cherrie (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXV, 

 1916, 187), which name is preoccupied by Xiphocolaptes saturatus Ridg- 

 way, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. , XII, 1890, 14, in text. 



Phseochroa cuvierii notia subsp. nov. 



Similar to Phseochroa cuvierii cuvierii (Delattre and Bourcier), but 

 outer rectrices with much more extended white tips, and without any 

 blue-black subterminal band. 



Type No. 52,769, Collection Carnegie Museum, subadult male; Turbaco, 

 Bolivar, Colombia, January 15, 1916; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Celeus innotatus sp. nov. 



Nearest apparently to Celeus loricatus (Reichenbach), from which it 

 differs in having the spotting of the upper and under parts, wings, etc., 

 very much reduced both in size and extent, leaving only a few small spots 

 on the breast and upper back in adult males. 



