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Saltator orenocensis rufescens subsp. nu\ . 



Type, No. 36,635, Collection Carnegie Museum, adull female (?); 

 Tocuyo, Estado Lara, Venezuela, January 25, 191 1; M. A. ( !arriker, Jr. 



Sub Specific characters. — Similar in general to Saltator orenocensis 

 orenocensis Lafresnaye, but averaging larger, with a decidedly stouter 

 bill; forehead and sides of crown, bordering the broad while super- 

 ciliaries, black; and entire under parts (except the throat) strongly 

 shaded with huffy clay-color. 



\l EASUREMENTS. 

 Solicitor orenocensis orenocensis: — 



Locality. Date. Wing. 



Ciuclad Bolivar. Sept. 19. 1909. . . .84 



San Felix Feb. 8, 19 10. .. .93 



San Felix Feb. 9, 1910. . . .90 



San Felix Feb. 9, 1910. . . .94 



San Felix Feb. 11, 1910. . . .92 



San Felix Feb. 15, 1910. . . .88 



San Felix June 2, 1910. . . .93 



91.6 



Exposed I lepl 1) 1 I 



Bill. 



Tail. Culmen 

 78 16 



85 16 



l6.« 



Average (of six adults). 



Saltator orenocensis rufescens: — 



36608 cT'ad. Tocuyo Jan. 23, 1911 . . . .94 



36635 9 ad. Tocuyo Jan. 25, 1911 . . . .96 



36636 cfad. Tocuyo Jan. 25, 1911 . . . .97 



81 



84 

 86 



79 

 82 



83 



90 

 90 



16.5 



17 



17-5 



12 



12.5 



12 



12.5 



13 



12.5 



12. S 



16.75 12.8 



19-5 13 



19-5 14 



19-5 14 



Remarks. — Saltator orenocensis was described by Lafresnaye {Revue 

 Zoologique, 1846, 274) from the Orinoco region, but until Mr. George 

 K. Cherrie sent in a series to the Tring Museum in the late nineties 

 it was almost unknown in collections. The Trinidad specimen 

 recorded by Dr. Sclater {Proceedings Zoological Society of London, 

 1856, 77), like many others of so-called "Trinidad" make, probably 

 came instead from the lower Orinoco, while Bonaparte's ascription 

 of the species to Colombia ( Conspectus Avium, I, 1850, 490) was almost 

 certainly a lapsus. Count von Berlepsch and Dr. Hartert, in their 

 extensive paper on the birds of the Orinoco region ( Novitates Zoo- 

 logical, IX, 1902, 23), however, record the species from San Felix, near 

 Cumana, on the north coast of Venezuela, this being the first unques- 

 tioned record of its occurrence outside the lower Orinoco basin. 

 The present record involves a great extension of the known range, 

 and it is not surprising to find that the individuals collected represent 

 a strongly marked subspecies. In S. v. orenocensis the breast and 



