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Valencia that they have "etwas helleren und mehr griinlichbraunen 

 Riicken" but refer their birds to typical triangularis. They evidently 

 belong to the present form. There are three specimens in the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History from the Cumbre de Valencia, inland 

 from Puerto Cabello, collected by S. M. Klages that are like the 

 skins from Rancho Grande. 



DENDROPLEX PICIROSTRIS PHALARA, subsp. nov. 



Characters.- — Similar to Dcndroplcx picirostris longirostris Rich- 

 mond E but light spots on crown and hindneck larger, the light mark- 

 ings more abundant on the fore part of the crown, that area appearing 

 lighter ; markings on breast more huffy in tone ; averaging browner 

 and lighter on breast. 



Description. — Type, U.S.N.M. no. 351915, male, collected at El 

 Sombrero, Estado Guarico, Venezuela, November 14, 1937, by 

 A. Wetmore (original no. 9962). Forehead and lores between 

 cartridge buff and cream-buff ; entire crown with large, tear-shaped 

 markings of cartridge buff and cinnamon-buff covering the center of 

 each feather, bordered with chaetura drab ; feathers of hindneck and 

 extreme upper back with large, elliptical central markings of cinnamon- 

 buff bordered narrowly with dull black, and edged with snuff brown ; 

 entire side of head cartridge buff; upper back snuff brown, merging 

 into russet, this color extending over the rest of the upper surface, 

 including the wings and tail ; rump verging toward tawny ; throat and 

 foreneck white with a wash of cartridge buff ; extreme upper breast 

 the same, with a few scattered, newer feathers of cinnamon-buff ; a 

 little lower down the feathers broadly cinnamon-buff centrally, with 

 narrow borders of dull black, and an edging of saccardo's umber ; 

 central and lower breast and sides with the light central markings 

 narrowed and elongated, and the brown edgings broader ; abdomen 

 saccardo's umber with a few indistinct central markings of cinnamon- 

 buff and equally indistinct mottlings of chaetura drab ; under tail- 

 coverts sayal brown, slightly brighter, more cinnamon-buff along 

 shafts ; sides and flanks russet ; under wing-coverts light cinnamon ; 

 under surface of remiges cinnamon, becoming fuscous at tips ; under 

 surface of tail verona brown. Bill pale smoke gray, with a faint line 

 of fuscous along culmen, the base with a tinge of dull buff; tarsus 

 and toes blackish brown, nails fuscous (from dried skin). 



B Dendroplex longirostris Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 18, 1896, p. 

 674 (Margarita Island, Venezuela). 



