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spicuous basally; tail dull black; beneath pale lemon yellow, the throat 

 still paler (martius yellow), the breast and sides shaded with pyrite yellow 

 or yellowish citrine. Wing (type), 68; tail, 59; exposed culmen, 13; tarsus, 

 17. 



Type, No. 58,638, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; El Tambor, 

 Santander, Colombia, November 23, 1916; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Pipra erythrocephala flammiceps, subsp. nov. 



Similar to Pipra erythrocephala erythrocephala (Linnaeus), but averaging 

 smaller, and pileum, hindneck, and sides of head and neck much brighter 

 and more reddish orange (orange chrome). Wing (type), 54; tail, 17; ex- 

 posed culmen, 8.5; tarsus, 13.5. 



Type, No. 58,777, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; El Tambor, 

 Santander, Colombia, November 29, 1916; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Pipra velutina minuscula, subsp. nov. 



Similar to Pipra velutina velutina von Berlepsch of Panama and Costa 

 Rica, but constantly smaller, and adult male decidedly blacker throughout. 

 Wing (type), 56; tail, 25; exposed culmen, 6.5; tarsus, 12.5. 



Type, No. 64,604, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Quibdo, 

 Rio Atrato, Colombia, March 19, 1918; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Hylopezus perspicillatus pallidior, subsp. nov. 



Similar to Hylopezus perspicillatus perspicillatus (Lawrence), but de- 

 cidedly paler in general coloration; the wing-markings, sides of head, etc., 

 paler buffy ; the pileum paler, duller gray; and the back lighter olive green. 



Type, No. 59,199, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; El Tambor, 

 Santander, Colombia, December 29, 1916; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Grallaria alticola, sp. nov. 



Above, including pileum, deep sepia brown, brightening into Dresden 

 brown on the upper tail coverts ; wings externally and tail like the back, the 

 primaries usually somewhat paler; lores and sides of head dull buffy, the 

 auriculars shaded with dusky; throat buffy white, deepening posteriorly 

 and laterally into antimony yellow ; rest of under surface buffy ochraceous, 

 indistinctly mottled with whitish tips to the feathers; under wing-coverts 

 bright ochraceous tawny. Wing (type), 93; tail, 50; exposed culmen, 21; 

 tarsus, 46. 



Type, No. 59,904, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Lagunillas, 

 Boyaca, Colombia, March 17, 1917; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Leptasthenura andicola exterior, subsp. nov. 



Similar to Leptasthenura andicola extima Todd of the Santa Marta 

 region of Colombia, which it moreover resembles in having the wings 

 externally extensively rufescent, but pileum more rufescent, being in fact 

 amber brown, streaked with black, and under parts in general paler and 



