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Pheugopedius fasciato=ventris cognatus subsp. nov. 



Similar to Pheugopedius fasciato-ventris albigularis (Sclater), but 

 upper parts brighter, more rufescent; tail also more rufescent, and more 

 regularly barred; and lower part of auricular region white. Differs from 

 P. f. fasciato-ventris (Lafresnaye) in having a band of black (unbarred) 

 adjoining the white area of the throat and upper breast. 



Type, No. 43,014, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Fundacion, 

 Santa Marta, Colombia, August 18, 1913; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Hypolophus pulchellus phainoleucus subsp. nov. 



Similar to Hypolophus pulchellus pulchellus Cabanis and Heine, but 

 adult male with more white on the pileum, sides of the head, remiges, 

 rectrices, and under parts generally. Female decidedly paler in general 

 coloration. 



Type, No. 45,478, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Rio Hacha, 

 Colombia, May 2, 1914; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Erionotus punctatus subcinereus subsp. nov. 



Similar to Erionotus punctatus punctatus (Shaw), but bill decidedly 

 larger ; adult male with under parts paler gray, more white freckling on 

 the sides of the head, and more black on the back; adult female much 

 more bufFy in general coloration than in either E. p. punctatus or 

 E. p. atrinucha. 



Type, No. 44,363, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Don Diego, 

 Santa Marta, Colombia, January 15, 1914; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Drymophila caudata hellmayri subsp. nov. 



Similar to Drymophila caudata caudata (Sclater), but with the center 

 of the crown and nape pure black, unstreaked. (In typical D. c. caudata 

 these parts are always prominenly streaked with white, except in worn 

 plumage— ^de C. E. Hellmayr in litt.) 



Type, No. 38,046, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Cincinnati, 

 Santa Marta, Colombia, August 9, 1911 ; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Herpsilochmus sticturus nigrescens subsp. nov. 



Similar to Herpsilochmus sticturus sticturus Salvin, but back with more 

 admixture of black, and under parts much darker, more grayish, the 

 throat and breast indistinctly striped with dusky grayish and white. 



Type, No. 33,052, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Maripa, 

 Rio Caura, Venezuela, December 20, 1909 ; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Formicarius moniliger virescens subsp. nov. 



Similar to Formicarius moniliger saturatus Ridgway, but upper parts 

 decidedly olivaceous (instead of brownish), sides of neck brighter cinna- 

 mon, and tail averaging longer, with the dark apical portion more 

 restricted. Wing (type), 95; tail, 55; bill, 20; tarsus, 32. 



