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This new form may be compared with D. adelaidcc (the type of the 

 latter beiuc^ used for comparison), as follows: 



1. D. ADELAiDiE. Above plumbeous-gray, slightly tinged with pale 

 olive on the back, the crown narrowly but distinctly streaked with 

 black ; middle of forehead plumbeous-gray, this bounded on each side 

 by an interrupted black streak, continued back along sides of crown; 

 a very small or barely appreciable yellow suborbital spot 5 sides of fore- 

 head (or more properly, a broad supraloral stripe) with lower parts clear 

 lemon-yellow, the belly much paler posteriorly. Eemiges and rectrices 

 edged with olive-gray. Wing, 2.10; tail, 1.80; culmen, .39; tarsus, .70; 

 middle toe, .40. 



Hob. — Porto Eico. 



2. D. DELicATA. Above clear plumbeous, without trace of olive 

 tinge on back or of dusky streaks on crown; middle of forehead (nar- 

 rowly) black, this forming a broad V-shaped mark bordering the crown 

 anteriorly and laterally; rest of forehead intense yellow, almost orange; 

 a very conspicuous suborbital spot of pure yellow ; lower parts intense 

 gamboge yellow, scarcely paler on lower ])art of abdomen. Eemiges 

 and rectrices edged with pure plumbeous-gray. Wing, 2.30; tail, 2.30; 

 culmen, .42 ; tarsus, .80 ; middle toe, .40. 



Rah. — Sta. Lucia. 



DESCRIPTIOIV OF A SUPPOSED NEW PliOTER FBOai €1111.1. 

 BY ROBERT RIDGIVAY. 



^GIALITES ALBIDIPECTES, Sp. UOV. 



Sp. en.— Adult (N^o. 26997, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; "Chili, S. Am.;" collec- 

 tor and donor unknown) : Forehead (broadly) superciliary stripe (ex- 

 tending back to end of auriculars), cheeks (up to lower eyelid) and lower 

 parts generally, pure white, the whole breast strongly tinged with light 

 pinkish cinnamon, this growing gradually deeper cinnamon on the sides 

 of the neck and across the nape. A distinct stripe from the rictus to the 

 eye, across the lores, the whole crown, and auriculars, black. Occiput 

 and upper parts in general, deep brownish gra.^ , tinged, especially on 

 the back, with light yellowish fulvous. Primaries dusky, Avith white 

 shafts; greater wing-coverts distinctly tipped with white; inner second- 

 aries chiefly white. Lateral upper tail-coverts white. Two outer tail- 

 feathers wholly white, the others dusky. 



Wing, 4.10; tail, 1.90; culmen, .GO; tarsus, 1.05; middle toe, .55. 



Hab.— " Chili." 



This species resembles somewhat the ^. ri(ficapillus, Temm., of Aus- 

 tralia, but the latter has the whole crown and nape deep cinnamon-ru- 

 fous, bounded anteriorly by a line of black, widening somewhat on the 

 side of the breast, and the breast and jugulum snowy white, besides other 

 minor differences. 



