FIVE NEW RACES OF BIRDS FROM VENEZUELA 



By ALEXANDER WETMORE 

 Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution 



In the course of study of a collection of birds made in northern 

 Venezuela in 1937, several forms have been segregated that previously 

 have not been recognized by name. They are described in the follow- 

 ing paragraphs. During the progress of this work the author has had 

 the advantage of examination of specimens in the American Museum 

 of Natural History, and in the Field Museum of Natural History, for 

 which privilege he expresses his thanks and appreciation. The new 

 forms follow. 



BUCCONIDAE 

 HYPNELUS BICINCTUS STOICUS, subsp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to Hypnclus bicinctus bicinctus (Gould) 1 but 

 lighter colored above, both in the ground color of the feathers, and 

 in their lighter tips. 



Description. — Type, U.S.N.M. no. 15 1670, male, Margarita Island, 

 Venezuela, collected July 3, 1895, by Wirt Robinson (orig. no. 404). 

 Crown slightly darker than hair brown, some of the feathers indis- 

 tinctly drab at the tips ; a faintly indicated spotting of avellaneous in 

 center, just above base of bill ; a very narrow line of white across 

 forehead ; stiffened bristles above nostrils white at base and black at 

 tips ; rictal bristles black, some of them white at base ; lores, a line 

 beneath the eye, and postocular space dull white, connected indistinctly 

 with a narrow, partly concealed white band across hind-neck ;' sides of 

 head above white postocular mark hair brown, washed with dull 

 vinaceous buff ; side of head at base of mandible dull fuscous, tipped 

 posteriorly with dull vinaceous buff ; hindneck, below white baud, and 

 back slightly darker than hair brown, the feathers tipped with dull 

 white and avellaneous, producing indistinct spots ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts fuscous, tipped slightly with vinaceous buff ; wing-coverts 

 dull hair brown, spotted indistinctly with dull white, and tipped 



1 Tamatia bicincta Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1836 (January 16, 1837) 

 ("Cayenne"). Hellmayr and Seilern, Arch. Naturg., vol. 78, 1912, p. 156, have 

 designated the type locality as Venezuela. 



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