NO. 4 NEW RACES OF BIRDS FROM VENEZUELA WETMORE 3 



greenish olive, more abundantly spotted, the spots lighter colored; 

 throat decidedly lighter, with the dark marginal lines on the feathers 

 reduced in width. 



Description. — Type, U.S.N.M. no. 351930, male, taken in the 

 Cordillera de la Costa at 4,500 feet elevation above Rancho Grande, 

 Estado Aragua, Venezuela, November 8, 1937, by A. Wetmore 

 (original no. 9881). Feathers of crown brownish olive, with a border 

 of dull black at the tip, and a central streak of cream-buff along 

 the shaft, this more extensive on forehead ; hind neck and back dull 

 medal bronze, the hind neck with faint shaft lines of cream-buff ; 

 upper tail-coverts dull hazel, this color extending across the rump to 

 merge with the medal bronze of the lower back; wing-coverts dull 

 dresden brown ; secondaries mars brown, with exposed margin dresden 

 brown, and an indistinct line of russet along the shaft ; inner webs of 

 primaries russet, becoming fuscous at the tips, with the outer web 

 mars brown ; tail chestnut-brown ; shafts of primaries, secondaries, 

 and rectrices blackish ; chin whitish, unmarked ; throat colonial buff, 

 the feathers with very narrow,, rather indistinct blackish margins ; sides 

 of head brownish olive, with abundant but indistinct streakings and 

 spottings of colonial buff ; under surface olive, becoming a little lighter 

 on center of breast and abdomen, darker on sides, marked abundantly 

 with elongated spots of marguerite yellow ; under tail-coverts streaked 

 with dull marguerite yellow ; under wing-coverts dull ochraceous- 

 orange ; under surface of tail somewhat paler than mars brown. 

 Maxilla dull blackish, with a dull ivory white line along the center of 

 the tomium ; mandible dull slate at base, light brownish white at tip ; 

 tarsus and toes dull brownish black (from dried skin). 



Measurements. — Type, male, wing 118.4, tail 91.6, culmen from 

 base 29.7, tarsus 22.0 mm. 



Male (an additional specimen), wing 117.5, tail 90.5, culmen from 

 base 30.3, tarsus 22.3 mm. 



Females (2 specimens), wing 104.7, io 9-3» tan 1 82.9, 89.5, culmen 

 from base 28.5, 29.4, tarsus 22.7, 22.7 mm. 



Range. — Mountains of northern Venezuela, known from the 

 Cumbre de Valencia, and near Rancho Grande. 



Remarks. — In addition to those listed, there is another specimen 

 in which the sex could not be determined when the bird was skinned. 

 The four secured near Rancho Grande were obtained in rain forest 

 at elevations of from 3,700 to 4.500 feet in the Cordillera de la Costa. 

 Hellmayr and Seilern 4 note of specimens from the Cumbre de 



4 Arch. Naturg., vol. 78, 1912, pp. 109-110. 



