NO. 4 NEW RACES OF BIRDS FROM VENEZUELA WETMORE 7 



lowish olive, the feathers edged with yellowish olive ; lores and space 

 behind nostril white with a faint yellowish tinge, forming a distinct 

 spot, somewhat obscured by blackish hairs ; back and rump yellowish 

 olive ; upper tail-coverts lighter, approaching light yellowish olive ; 

 lesser wing-coverts yellowish olive ; middle and greater coverts chae- 

 tura drab, tipped with reed yellow to primrose yellow, forming two 

 distinct wing-bands ; primary coverts and alula chaetura drab ; pri- 

 maries and secondaries chaetura drab, outer webs edged with yellowish 

 olive changing to reed yellow ; inner secondaries edged with mar- 

 guerite yellow ; rectrices dark hair brown, with a very narrow edging 

 of reed yellow basally ; superciliary line reed yellow, somewhat ob- 

 scured by yellowish olive tips to feathers ; auricular region, light 

 yellowish olive, with a spot of yellowish olive above and directly 

 behind eye ; chin and throat white, with a very slight yellowish tinge ; 

 upper breast strontian yellow, becoming yellowish citrine at sides ; 

 foreneck, lower breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts dark citron 

 yellow ; sides pale olive-yellow ; under wing-coverts barium yellow, 

 marked with chaetura drab along bend of wing. Maxilla dull black, 

 tip of mandible chaetura black, base deep olive-buff, tarsus and toes 

 chaetura black (from dried skin). 



Measurements. — Type, male, wing 51.3, tail 50.1, culmen from 

 base 1 1.4, tarsus 16.9 mm. 



Males (9 specimens), wing 50.5-52.8 (51.6), tail 48.6-52.4 (50.1), 

 culmen from base 10.7-11.6 (11.2), tarsus 16.8-17.4 (17.0) mm. 



Females (9 specimens), wing 47.0-52.2 (49.3), tail 46.3-49.5 (47.7), 

 culmen from base 10.7-11.9 (11. 4), tarsus 15.9-17.2 (16.5) mm. 



Range. — Venezuela, including the Orinoco and Caura Valleys, and 

 the northern portion west at least through Estado Aragua. 



Remarks. — From Capsicmpis Havcola leuCophrys the present form 

 is distinguished by less extensive white on throat, brighter yellow 

 underparts, brighter green dorsal surface, and slightly smaller size. In 

 five Bogota skins of leucoplirys with the sex not indicated the wing 

 ranges from 55.2 to 56.8 mm., which is distinctly larger than the 

 dimensions given above regardless of sex. 



In size the new form resembles typical flavcola from Bahia. The 

 more typical specimens come from the northern section of Venezuela, 

 skins from the Orinoco basin being slightly intermediate toward 

 flaveola but to be placed with the present form. Specimens assigned 

 to the new race have been seen from the following localities : Ocumare 

 de la Costa (Estado Aragua) ; Cumanacoa (Estado Sucre) ; Ciudad 

 Bolivar, Altagracia, Maipures, and Suapure along the Rio Orinoco, 

 and La Pricion in the Caura Valley. 



