57fi Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Colnmbigallina minnta Dubois, Syn. Avium, II, 1902, 764, part (South America). — ■ 

 BERLEPSCHand Hartert, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, 119 (Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela; 

 Cayenne fixed as type locality). — vox Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, VI, 1904, 

 341 (Paraguay), 371 (faunal distribution). — Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Ornis, 

 XIII, 1906, 100 (Santa Ana, Peru; Roraima, British Guiana; Bahia, Brazil; 

 meas. ; crit.). — von Ihering, Aves do Brazil, 1907, 22, excl. geog. distr. part 

 (Estado de Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Victoria, Botucatu, and Bahia, Brazil). 

 — Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, 295 (Cayenne, ex Holandre, fixed as type 

 locality). 



Cohimbina grisea Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 191 2, 18 (geog. distr., 

 excl. Colombia part). 



Description. — Adult male: above grayish brown, slightly glossy, 

 shading into cinereous on the hindneck, upper tail-coverts, and wing- 

 coverts, the latter tinged with purplish vinaceous, and the inner ones, 

 together with the tertiaries, marked on the outer webs with irregular 

 spots of glossy dark steel-blue; crown posteriorly grayish brown like 

 the back, anteriorly cinereous, palest on the forehead; lores, sides of 

 head, and under parts generally pale dull vinaceous, deepest on the 

 breast, and fading to nearly white on the chin and under tail-coverts ; 

 remiges mostly rufous chestnut, with the tips and more or less of the 

 outer webs dusky brown or black, this area increasing in extent on 

 the inner secondaries; primary-coverts also rufous chestnut, tipped 

 and edged with dusky; under wing-coverts and axillaries rufous chest- 

 nut; tail black, the middle rectrices ashy brown, the others cinereous 

 at the base, the outermost edged externally and tipped with white; 

 "bill brown; iris violet red; feet flesh-color" (Taczanowski). 



Female: above plain olive-brown, the forehead, sides of head, and 

 nape sometimes with a faint grayish wash; wing-coverts like the back, 

 but paler, the inner ones and tertiaries with irregular spots of glossy 

 dark steel-blue as in the male; wings and tail also as in the male, but 

 duller and more brownish; breast and sides pale wood-brown, some- 

 times with a faint vinaceous tinge, the throat paler, nearly white, and 

 the abdomen and under tail-coverts also much paler, white or nearly so* 



The juvenal dress (illustrated by Xo. 45,266, Collection American 

 Museum of Natural History, Bahia, Brazil) resembles that of the 

 adult female, but the feathers of the breast and upper parts generally 

 are edged and tipped with paler color, giving a faintly squamate 

 appearance; there is much fulvous suffusion on the breast, sides, 

 crown, and wings; and the wing-spots are merely indicated. 



Measurements. — Male: wing, 74-80 (average, 76); tail, 50-56 (52); 

 exposed culmen, 10-11.5 (10.5); tarsus, 15-16 (15.2). Female (six 



