XO. 4 NEW RACES OF BIRDS FROM VENEZUELA WETMORE 5 



Measurements. — Type, male, wing 97.3, tail 83.3, culmen from base 

 30.0, tarsus 22.7 mm. 



Male (a second specimen), wing 99.7, tail 81.3, culmen from base 

 30.7, tarsus 24.5 mm. 



Females (2 specimens), wing 101.2-102.5, tail 82.0-84.1, culmen 

 from base 32.2-33.6, tarsus 23.6-25.1 mm. 



Range.- — Known from Parapara and El Sombrero, Estado Guarico, 

 Venezuela. Supposed to extend through the northern Llanos. 



Remarks. — This new form shares with the race longirostris a larger 

 bill and an extension of the light markings over the upper breast. It 

 differs from picirostris (in which this light area is more restricted) 

 in having the dark-bordered, light streakings extending farther down 

 across the breast, the auricular region lighter, the forehead paler, and 

 the dark-bordered, light markings on the hindneck greater in extent 

 and the bill heavier. 



TYRANNIDAE 



PYRRHOMYIAS VIEILLOTOIDES SPADIX, subsp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to Pyrrhomyias vieilloto'ides vieilloto'ides (La- 

 fresnaye) 6 but dorsal surface lighter ; dark feathers of pileum 

 browner, less blackish ; below lighter, especially on the abdomen, flanks 

 and under tail-coverts ; size slightly greater. 



Description. — Type, U.S.N.M. no. 171 139, male, collected at Los 

 Palmales, elevation 450 meters, Estado Monagas, Venezuela, De- 

 cember 7, 1898, by F. W. Urich (original no. 48). Pileum (except in 

 center) and hindneck mummy brown; a concealed crown patch 

 strontian yellow, the feathers white basally ; upper back between 

 russet and cinnamon-brown ; lower back sepia ; rump somewhat dull 

 yellow ocher, this color confluent with the flanks, forming a distinct 

 band ; upper tail-coverts auburn ; wing-coverts black basally, this color 

 entirely hidden by auburn tips on the lesser coverts ; middle and greater 

 wing-coverts edged broadly with hazel ; primaries dull black at tips 

 and on outer webs of sixth to tenth, with the inner webs and the basal 

 parts of the outer webs hazel, except on eighth and ninth where there 

 is a mere trace of this color ; outer web of tenth primary edged with 

 hazel for basal two-thirds; secondaries hazel with tips black, except 

 for a narrow tip and edging of the brighter color ; central rectrices dull 

 black, tipped and margined narrowly with hazel ; other rectrices dull 

 black distally with the bases, external edging, and narrow tips hazel ; 



8 Muscicapa (Tyrannula) vieilloto'ides Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., vol. 11, ii 

 p. 174 (Caracas, Venezuela). 



