Wess 
MARCH 24, 1903 VoL. IV, PP. 9-10 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW RACE OF V/REOSVLVA JOSEPH FROM 
CHIRIQUI. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
AFTER a study of all available material, Dr. Robert Ridgway 
has called my attention to the necessity of subdividing Vireosylva 
Josephe (Sclater),' and has suggested that I name the Chiriqui form 
from the seven specimens collected in the winter and spring of 
tgo1 by W. W. Brown, Jr.; accordingly I propose for this well- 
marked race the trinomial 
Vireosylva josephz chiriquensis subsp. nov. 
Type, from Boquete, Volcan de Chiriqui, 4000 feet altitude, g adult, no. 
8692, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs, collected April 8, 1901, by W. W. Brown, Jr. 
Characters. — Differing from true V. josefhe in much greater amount of 
yellow on the under parts and in the richer shade of that color; in the 
brighter, much less dusky, olive green of the back, which is more sharply con- 
trasted with the color of the head. 
Color. — Sexes alike. Pileum dull grayish hair-brown, darker, more dusky, 
on sides of crown, and tinged with reddish brown on frontal apex ; a conspic- 
' Originally described (P. Z. S., 1859, p. 137, pl. 154) from Pallatanga, Ecuador, and usually 
given as ranging from Peru to Costa Rica. 
