396 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology, 



Turdus rnontanus (not of Voigt) Lafresnaye, Rev. zool., 1844, p. 167 (Guade- 

 loupe). Type.— M. C. Z. 

 Turdus apicalis Hartlaub, Syst. orn. West-Africas, 1857, p. 76. 



The name Muscicapa fusca used by Miiller, and later by Boddaert, 

 applies to the Scaly-breasted Thrasher generally known as Allenia 

 apicalis (Hartlaub), Both names are based upon Daubenton's 

 Gobe-Mouche brun de la Martinique, PI. enl. 568, fig. 2. Miiller's 

 description is very brief, but his allusion to the " Braune Fliegenf anger" 

 " aus Martinique" of Buff on leaves no doubt as to its identity. 



The figure in Daubenton's plate is rather poor, but shows distinctly 

 the scaly breast and white spots on the rectrices. The rictal bristles 

 are too prominent, and the back is shown much redder than it should 

 be, but in this latter respect agrees very well with Lafresnaye's type of 

 Turdus rnontanus, M. C. Z. 76,370, Laf. coll. 3,621, which in its present 

 faded condition from long exposure to light, is much redder above 

 than fresh specimens with which we have made comparison. It is 

 likely, too, that the pigment used in Daubenton's plate may have 

 undergone some change during its long existence, making it much 

 redder than it originally had been. 



A NEW SUBSPECIES OF SICALIS FLAVEOLA (LINNE). 



When the birds collected during the Harvard Peruvian expedition 

 of 1916 were reported upon by the senior author and Noble (Auk, 

 1918, 35, p. 462), specimens of Sicalis flaveola from South America 

 with which to compare the Peruvian examples were not available. 

 The M, C, Z. has since acquired a specimen collected in Brazil by the 

 Wilkes United States Exploring Expedition. This specimen agrees 

 with a series from Jamaica, but both differ from the Peruvian bird, 

 for which we propose » 



Sicalis flaveola valida, subsp. nov. 



Type,— M. C, Z, 79,766, Adult & . Peru: Sullana, 29 July, 1916. 

 G. K, Noble, 



SuBSPECiFic CHARACTERS. — Similar to Sicalis flaveola flaveola (Linn6) but 

 larger; upper parts more yellowish green, less olive-green. 



Measurements. — S, /, valida. Type, — adult cf — wing, 82,2; 

 tail, 58.5; tarsus, 21.5; exposed culmen, 11.3. 



