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pileum, the lores dusk}', and the supraloral line white; some fine 

 white mottling or streaking under tlie eye ; upper parts, and wings 

 and tail externall}', bright citrine; under parts yellow (empire yel- 

 low to light cadmium), nearly white on the chin, and the sides shaded 

 with sulphine yellow; under wing-coverts dull yelloAv; "iris brown''; 

 bill black; feet light brown (in skin). 



Measurements. — Male (two specimens) : Wing, 65; tail, 60; bill. 11 : 

 tarsus. 22. Female (three specimens) : Wing, 58, 60, 60; tail, 55. 55. 

 57; bill, 11.5, 12, 12; tarsus, 22. (Two other specimens, one unsexed. 

 the other marked "9," measure respectively: wing, 63-64; tail, 58; 

 bill, 11-12; tarsus, 21-22.) 



Range. — Subtropical Zone, eastern coast mountains of Venezuela. 



Remuirhs. — This remarkable and perfectly distinct species was dis- 

 covei-ed by Goering in the forest region of Caripe, Venezuela, and 

 for many years was known from the type specimen alone. The sec- 

 ond specimen that came to hand was collected by Mr. F. W. Urich 

 at Los Palmales, in the same general region, and was promptly 

 described by Doctor Chapman as a Chlorospingus., belonging to the 

 group now segregated as Hemispingiis. In view of its close general 

 resemblance to certain members of that group the error was quite 

 excusable. More recently Mr. G. H. H. Tate has secured six speci- 

 mens, closely agreeing with each other and with Doctor Chapman's 

 type of canipi/eus. In its gray head and yellow under parts the 

 species agrees with B. coi^oiiatus, while otherwise it most nearly re- 

 sembles B. leucohlepliandes, and may stand between these two species 

 in a linear sequence. It is a Subtropical Zone form, with no known 

 representative in the Tropical Zone below. ^ 



/Specimens examined. — Venezuela: Los Palmales, 1 {iyp^oiChloro- 

 sjnngus canijnieits Chapman); Carapas (5,600 feet), 2; La Trini- 

 dad (5.500 feet), 3; Mount Turumiquire (7,900 feet), 1. Total, 7. 



BASILEUTERUS CASTANEICEPS CASTANEICEPS Sclatcr and Salvin 



BasUeuterus castaneiceps Sclaitcr ami Saia'in, Pioc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 

 1877, p. 521 (Jima. Ecuatlor ; orig. doscr. ; type in coll. Brit. Mus.). — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 10, 1885, p. 389, part (Sical and Jima, 

 Ecuador; descr.). — Chapman. Aiikt. Mus. Nov. No. 143, 1924, p. 9, in tt^xr, 

 part (localities in Ecuador and Peru; crit.) 



Description. — Above olivaceous brown (light medal bronze), some- 

 what lighter posteriorly, the wings and tail externally somewhat 

 brighter (nearer citrine) ; croAvn medially rich orange brown (be- 

 tween Mars yellow and Sudan brown), inclosed between two black 

 lateral lines running from the forehead to the nape; sides of head 

 (including superciliaries) neutral gray, with a dusky line through 

 the eye, and with a trace of whitish above the lores; under part^ 



