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of crown, sides of head, throat, and upper breast deep black, instead 

 of brown or brownish black, as in the southern form. 



Measurements of type. — Wing, 84 mm.; tail, 80; exposed culmen, 16; 

 tarsus, 25. 



Remarks. — This subspecies is based on a series of eighteen specimens 

 from northern Venzeuela (La Cumbre de Valencia, Guarico, and 

 Anzoategui), which differ as above pointed out from three skins from 

 Bolivia in the collection. At first I thought that this difference was 

 due to the Venezuelan skins being in fresher plumage, but an exami- 

 nation of the series in the American and United States National 

 Museums has convinced me that this is not the case. A large series 

 from Matto Grosso, Brazil, in the collection of the former institution, 

 varies considerably, but as a series is sufficiently distinct from speci- 

 mens from Trinidad and northern Venezuela. The browner color of 

 the capistrum and throat, however, is the only character that can 

 be relied on to separate the two races. Tanagra atra Gmelin (Systema 

 Natures, I, i, 1788, 898) was based on D'Aubenton (Planches Enlumi- 

 nees, 714, fig. 2), whose type came from Cayenne. A specimen from 

 this locality in the collection of the American Museum belongs 

 clearly to the southern form, while two in the Carnegie Museum from 

 the Orinoco region (San Felix and El Llagual) although obviously inter- 

 mediate, are also best referred thereto. I have not seen Colombian 

 examples, but presume that they will be found referable to aterrima. 

 All the synonyms of this species would seem to pertain exclusively to 

 true atra. 



Compsothlypis pitiayumi elegans subsp. now 



Type, No. 36,953, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male: 

 Anzoategui, Estado Lara, Venezuela, February 21, 191 1; M. A. 

 Carriker, Jr. 



Subspecific characters. — Resembling C. pitiayumi pitiayumi (Yie- 

 illot) of Paraguay, southern Brazil, and Bolivia, but averaging 

 decidedly more brightly colored below, the throat and breast in adult 

 males being orange-ochraceous (as in C. p. speciosa Ridgway), while 

 the abdomen also is deeper yellow. 



Measurements. — Average of ten adult males: wing, 54 mm.; tail, 40; 

 exposed culmen, 10. 



Remarks. — Professor Baird was apparently the first author to 

 note the peculiarities of this form as shown by a specimen from 



