Vol. 32, pp. 113-118 June 27, 1919 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



DESCRIPTIONS OF APPARENTLY NEW COLOMBIAN 



BIRDS. 



BY W. E. CLYDE TODD. 



In this paper, the seventh of the series to appear in these 

 Proceedings, nineteen forms believed to be new are character- 

 ized, all from Colombia, and all (with one exception) based on 

 material received in the last few years from Mr. M. A. Carriker, 

 Jr., who has been collecting in the interests of the Carnegie 

 Museum. All measurements are in millimeters, and the names 

 of colors are from Mr. Robert Ridgway's "Color Standards 

 and Color Nomenclature." The author's acknowledgments 

 are due to Mr. Waldron DeWitt Miller and Mr. Harry C. 

 Oberholser for their advice and assistance in deciding the status 

 of certain of these forms. 



Atlapetes semirufus majusculus, subsp. nov. 



Similar to Atlapetes semirufus semirufus (Boissonneau) of the Bogota 

 region of Colombia, but averaging slightly larger and much paler through- 

 out; the throat tinged with yellowish; the back, wing- and tail-edgings, 

 and flanks lighter olive green; and the breast and sides paler, aniline yellow 

 instead of raw sienna. Wing (type), 78; tail, 81; exposed culmen, 13.5; 

 tarsus, 27. 



Type, No. 59,763, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult female; Pena 

 Blanca, Santander, Colombia, March 6, 1917; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Phcenicothraupis rubica coccinea, subsp. nov. 

 Nearest apparently to Phcenicothraupis rubica amabilis von Berlepsch, 

 but adult male brighter and more uniform red below, the sides and flanks 

 less grayish; adult female with the under parts deeper and more uniform 

 buffy brown. 



Type, No. 60,728, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; La Colorado, 

 Boyaca, Colombia, April 29, 1917; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



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