﻿DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVEN NEW SPECIES AND SUB- 

 SPECIES OF BIRDS FROM TROPICAL AMERICA 



By ROBERT RIDGWAY 



The following new forms are included in Part iv of Birds of North 

 and Middle America, now in course of preparation by the United 

 States National Museum, and are published in advance of that 

 volume, the appearance of which cannot be expected during the 

 present year. 



i. MYADESTES GENIBARBIS CHERRIEI new subspecies 

 Similar to M. g. sanctcc-lucice but under parts paler, white on lateral 



rectrices less extended, and eighth primary more attenuate and falcate 



at tip. 



Mountains of eastern portion of island of Haiti (Santo Domingo). 

 Type, No. 655, Field Columbian Museum, adult male, Catare, 



Santo Domingo, February 5, 1895 ; Geo. K. Cherrie, collector. 



2. CATHARUS FUSCATER SANCT.E - MARTiE, new subspecies 

 Similar to C. f. hellmayri Berlepsch, but gray of throat quite uni- 

 form with that of chest, and under tail-coverts clear slate-gray or 

 mouse-gray, like color of sides and flanks, instead of dull brownish 

 buff or wood-brown. 



Santa Marta district of Colombia. 



Type, No. 8,797, coll. Carnegie Museum ; Elheibano, Colombia, 

 April 22, 1899; Mrs. H. H. Smith; adult male. 



3. CICHLHERMINIA CORYI, new species 



Differing from all other forms of the genus in having very large, 

 broad, roundish ovate spots of white on chest, the brown margins of 

 these feathers darker. 



Locality unknown, but supposed to be island of Martinique, Lesser 

 Antilles. 



Type, No. 3,618 Lafresnaye collection, in coll. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. 



4. CINCLOCERTHIA RUFICAUDA TENEBROSA, new subspecies 

 Similar in size to C. r. ruficauda (of Dominica) but much darker 

 above, the pileum deep sooty gray, back sooty brown, remiges and 

 rectrices chestnut-brown ; chest more strongly and extensively 

 grayish. 



