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Sclater and Salvin had "several examples of both sexes." Other cotypes 

 are two adult males and one adult female in the British Museum (Natural 

 History), ex the Salvin-Godman collection, and probably also a male and 

 a female in the same institution, ex the Sclater collection. 



Since Hellmayr {loc. cit.) has listed this form as Chrysothlypis chry some- 

 las chrysomelas, it follows that he must have considered the generic name 

 Chrysothlypis masculine. All other names ending with -thlypis, however, 

 have been consistently treated, by himself and others, as feminine {of. 

 Geothlypis, Chamaethlypis, and Eulhlypis), and Chrysothlypis must there- 

 fore also be feminine. If this be granted, we must use a latinized form of 

 the feminine ending of the Greek adjective meaning "black." A com- 

 parable case is Turdus protomomelas Cabanis, 1867, which, placed by See- 

 bohm in the genus Merula, became Merula protomomelcena (see Catalogue 

 of the birds in the British Museum 5: 265, 1881). 

 Chrysothlypis chrysomelas ocularis Nelson 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (3) : 19, Sept. 27 (not 24) , 1912. 

 =Chrysothlypis chrysomelaena ocularis Nelson. See my remarks under 



Tachyphonus chrysomelas Sclater and Salvin, above. 

 238544. Adult male. Santa Cruz de Cana (at elev. 3,500 feet), Depart- 

 ment of Darien, Panama. June 6, 1912. Collected by Edward A. 

 Goldman. Original number 15848. Received from the U.S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service. 



Genus THLYPOPSIS Cabanis 



Thlypopsis sordida oriiiocensis Friedmann 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 55: 85, June 25, 1942. 

 316653. Adult male. Isla Orocopiche (in the Rio Orinoco, near Soledad) , 

 State of Anzoategui, Venezuela. Dec. 1, 1929. Collected by Ernest G. 

 Holt. Original number 3403. National Geographic Society Venezuela- 

 Brazil Expedition (1929-1930). 



Genus NESOSPINGUS Sclater 



Chlorospingus ? speculiferus Lawrence 

 Ibis (3) 5 (19) : 383, pi. 9, fig. 1, July 1875. 

 =Nesospingus speculiferus (Lawrence) . See Hellmayr, Catalogue of 



birds of the Americas 9: 397, 1936. 

 75331. Adult (sex not indicated) . Puerto Rico. Entered into the museum 

 register on Oct. 18, 1875. Collected by Johannes C. Gundlach. 



Genus CHLOROSPINGUS Cabanis 



Chlorospingus sumichrasti Ridgway 



Proc. Washington Acad. Sci. 3: 150, Apr. 15, 1901. 

 =Chlorospingus ophthalmicus ophthalmicus (Du Bus). See Hellmayr, 

 Catalogue of birds of the Americas 9: 397, 398, 1936. 



