Todd: Seventeen Xi:\\ Neotropical Birds. 205 



Trinidad i '' American Birds. 1864, [70). Dr. Sharp* 



alogue Birds British Museum, X, 1885, 260) soughl to identify it with 

 Parula pitiayumi pacifica Berlepsch of western Ecuador, but this 

 reference was emphatically repudiated 1>\ Messrs. Berlepsch and 

 Hartert (Novitates Zoologicce, IX, 1902, 10), who, [however, forbore 

 to give the form a name. With a series of twenty-one verj satisfactory 

 specimens before me I find no difficulty in distinguishing it from 

 the southern rare, of which the figure (Plate II, fig. 1) in the British 

 Museum Catalogue is a very good representation. Paraguay {ex 

 Azara) is the type locality, and skins from that country agree with those 

 from Bolivia (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, etc.) and southern 

 Brazil in having the under parts paler, with the throat and breast 

 much less strongly tinged with orange-ochraceous than in examples 

 from Colombia (Santa Marta district), northern Venezuela, the 

 Orinoco region, and Chacachacare Island, off Trinidad. There is 

 no especial difference in size, however. The present form may readily 

 be distinguished from C. p. pacifica of western Ecuador and C. p. 

 speciosa of Central America, with which it agrees well in the color 

 of the under parts, by the amount of white on the middle wing-coverts, 

 these latter forms having very little or none of this color on these 

 parts. 



Pheugopedius macrurus annectens subsp. nov. 



Type, Xo. 37.137, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult male; Anzoa- 

 tegui, Estado Lara, Venezuela, March 4, 191 1; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Pheugopedius macrurus mac- 

 rurus (Allen) from "Bogota," Colombia, but size somewhat less, 

 crown purer gray, back and wings duller rufous brown, and rectrices 

 more distinctly barred. 



Measurements. — Adult male: wing, 69 mm.; tail, 68; exposed culmen, 

 18.5; tarsus, 27. Adult female (Xo. 37,13s): wing, 67 mm.; tail, 62 

 mm.; exposed culmen, iS; tarsus, 26. 



Remarks. — Although reluctant to add another to the list of names 

 in the Pheugopedius mystacatis group, and thereby possibly increase 

 the confusion, I find myself unable to satisfactorily identify the 

 two specimens above recorded with any of the described forms. They 

 certainly differ from typical P. mystacalis from western Ecuador, of 

 which I have examined four specimens, in somewhat larger size, the 

 tail in particular being proportionately longer, while the general 



