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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



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from the Anegada channel southward. Specimens from Porto Rico 

 and probably eastward to the Anegada channel belong to a different 

 form that is apparently without a name. It may be known as : 



CERCHNEIS SPARVERIA LOQUACULA new subsp. 



Type No. 169,029, U. S. N. M., <$ ad., Isabel 11, Vieques island, 

 Porto Rico, Feb. 8, 1899. Collected by A. B. Baker. 



Similar to C. s. caribcearum but with the breast deep vinaceous- 

 cinnamon, the back darker, the tail and back less heavily barred, 

 and the under wing-coverts always spotted with black. Wing, 172; 

 tail, 124.5; culmen, 13. 



Females similar to females of C. s. caribcearum but darker above 

 with the rufous spot on head much more pronounced ; below with 

 the spots and streaks more numerous and heavier, and with a strong 

 suffusion of vinaceous-cinnamon. 



Measurements of C. s. caribcearum 



Culmen 



Two males, Barbuda 



Four females, Barbuda 



Three males, Antigua 



Three females, Antigua 



One male, St. Bartholomew... 

 Two females, St. Bartholomew 



One male, St. Eustatius 



One male, Nevis 



One male, Saba 



One male, St. Kitts 



One female, St. Kitts 



Two males, Guadeloupe 



Two females, Guadeloupe 



One male, Dominica 



Measurements of C. s. loquacula 



1 Two specimens. 2 One specimen. 3 Eight specimens. 



