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wing-coverts whiter and broader, ear-coverts grayer, superciliary less ex- 

 tended posteriorly, abdominal region more yellow; size smaller. 



Type.— No. 273,007, U. S. Nat. Mus., o" ad., San Miguel Bridge, 5000 

 ft., subtropical zone, Urubamba Canon, Peru; June 22, 1915; E. Heller. 



Description of type. — Whole crown neutral gray, spreading on to the 

 nape and not sharply denned from the Kronberg green ("olive-green") 

 back; a white superciliary reaching to behind the eye; lores dusky; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts grayish white, the latter tipped with the color of the sides 

 of the nape; tail hair-brown, very narrowly margined externally with the 

 color of the back ; the outer web of the outer pair of feathers paler basally, 

 no trace of whitish on the inner web of any of the rectrices; wing-quills 

 fuscous, margined with whitish on the inner webs and pale greenish on the 

 outer webs. Median and greater coverts broadly margined with greenish 

 white; lesser wing-coverts the color of the back; bend and lining of the 

 wing citron-yellow; throat and upper breast grayish white, the rest of the 

 under parts whiter, washed, or faintly and obscurely streaked, with pale 

 citron-yellow, brighter on the sides and flanks; feet and bill black, the max- 

 illa pale basally. Wing 60; tail 56 ; tarsus 16.5; culmen 9 mm. 



Description of female. — The female resembles the male in color, but is 

 smaller in size. Wing 58; tail 51 ; tarsus 16.5; culmen 9. 



Specimens examined. — Mecocerculus subtropicalis. Peru: Type lo- 

 cality, 1 d\ 2 9,1?; Idma, 1 &, 2 9 • 



Mecocerculus stictopterus tceniopterus. Peru: Above Torontoy, 10,700 

 ft., 1 o", 1 9 ; Occobamba Valley, 9100 ft., 1 d\ 



Mecocerculus stictopterus stictopterus. Ecuador: Chimborazo, 1 tf ; 

 Colombia: Temperate Zone, 6 r? , 1 9 • 



Mecocerculus hellmayri. Bolivia: Incachaca, 3 o 71 , 2 9 • 



Remarks. — The apparent abundance of this proposed new species 

 prompts the belief that it has been before described but if this be true, it 

 was presumably not referred to the genus Mecocerculus. On the other 

 hand, it is so clearly a member of that genus that it could not well be placed 

 in any other. Possibly the lack of a clear conception of its zonal relation- 

 ships with M.s. tceniopterus may have led to the belief that it was not sepa- 

 rable from that species. Inaccurate labeling might readily lead to the 

 belief that both birds came from the same locality, whereas tceniopterus is 

 found in the Temperate Zone and subtropicalis in the Subtropical Zone. 



Both M . colopterus and M. poecilocercus have the inner web of certain 

 remiges white; while in M. hellmayri and M. minor the wing-bars are 

 ochraceous; in subtropicalis the inner webs of the rectrices are without 

 white and the wing-bars are greenish white. 



Anaeretes agraphia, new species. 



Specific characters. — Quite unlike any described species of the genus, but 

 most nearly resembling Anaretes agilis Scl., from which it differs in having 

 no streaks above or below, the crest wholly black, etc. 



Type.— 273,008, U. S. Nat. Mus., 9 ad., Idma, 9000 ft., near Sta. Ana, 

 Peru; October 10, 1915, E. Heller. 



Description of type. — Crown and elongated feathers of the crest shining 



