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throat cinnamon-brown, the feathers grayish black basally; sides of 

 head cinnamon-brown ; foreneek and most of breast hazel, becoming 

 clay color on lower breast, flanks, abdomen and under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts ochraceous-tawny. Bill and tarsus dull black 

 ( from dried skin). 



Measurements.- — Type (male), wing 72.3, tail 60.4, culmen from 

 base 13.8, tarsus 12.6 mm. 



Males (7 specimens), wing 69.8-74.3 (72.2), tail 57.3-60.4 (59.1), 

 culmen from base 13. 3-14.7 (13. 9), tarsus 12.3-12.6 (12.5). 



Females (4 specimens), wing 66.9-70.0 (68.6), tail 52.8-56.2 

 (54.4), culmen from base 13. 2-14. 5 (13.9), tarsus 12. 5-13.4 (12.9) 

 mm. 



Range. — Mountains of Monagas (and probably Sucre), northeastern 

 Venezuela (Los Palmales near San Antonio, Santa Ana Valley, Los 

 Dos Rios). 



Remarks. — This new form follows a tendency to paler coloration 

 found in various species in the Cumana region. P. v. assimilis of the 

 Santa Marta region is decidedly brighter rufous above, with the light 

 rump band rufescent rather than buffy. I have had available skins of 

 P. v. vieillotoides, from the Silla de Caracas, Galipan in the Cerro de 

 Avila, Los Riitos near Rancho Grande in the Cordillera de la Costa, 

 and from the Cumbre de Valencia. It is interesting to note that two 

 skins in the American Museum of Natural History from the moun- 

 tains at Bucarito, near Tocuyo in Estado Lara, while to be placed 

 with the race vieillotoides, are distinctly paler and so superficially 

 resemble spadix, owing to their approach to the more rufescent assimi- 

 lis of the Santa Marta region. 



Measurements of typical vieillotoides are as follows : 



Males (4 specimens), wing 68.1-70.5 (69.2), tail 56.2-59.7 (57.7), 

 culmen from base 13.4-13.6 (13.5), tarsus 12. 8-13.4 (13.1) mm. 



Females (2 specimens), wing 65.8-66.8 (66.3), tail 52.9-53.2 (53.0), 

 culmen from base 13.4-13.7 (13.5), tarsus 12.8-13.1 ( 12.9) mm. 



CAPSIEMPIS FLAVEOLA CERULA, subsp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to Capsiempis flavcola flavcola (Lichtenstein) ' 

 but lores and feathers behind nostrils distinctly white or whitish (less 

 yellowish) ; throat white. 



Description. — Type, U.S.N.M. no. 352009, male, collected at Inde- 

 pendencia, Ocumare de la Costa, Estado Aragua, Venezuela, October 

 28, 1937, by A. Wetmore (original number 9714). Crown dark yel- 



7 Muscicapa flavcola Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 1823, p. 56 

 (Bahia, P.razil). 



