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Piranga testacea tschudii Berl. and Stolz. Eight specimens, one 

 immature male, three adult (red) males and four females, Tabaconas and 

 Huancabamba, August and September. 



On comparing these skins with the large series, including all the forms 

 of testacea (except Piranga hcemalea Salv. and Godman of Mt. Roraima 

 which Berlepsch considers specifically distinct) in the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology, it was at once apparent that the form occupying western 

 Colombia needs a name. Of this bird we have nine specimens — six fully 

 adult red males and three females, all collected by Mervyn G. Palmer, and 

 received some few years ago from W. F. H. Rosenberg of London. They 

 come from La Maria, Dagua Valley and San Antonio, Rio Cali. This 

 form is nearer to true P. testacea Scl. and Salv. Nicaragua to Veragua and 

 Chiriqui, than to any of the others, and has been referred to true testacea 

 by Chapman in his ' Distribution of Bird-Life in Colombia,' we however, 

 cannot agree to this and propose to call it 



Piranga testacea desidiosa subsp. nov. 



Type from La Maria, Dagua Valley, west Colombia, No. 23477 Bangs 

 Coll. in M. C. Z., adult d". Collected May 23, 1908, by M. G. Palmer. 



Characters. Adult o\ similar to same sex in P. testacea testacea Scl. & 

 Salv. but more intense and brilliant red, lacking the dull brownish-red chest 

 of true testacea; underparts scarlet red slightly paler and more scarlet on 

 belly and but little shaded on sides and not at all on chest with brownish 

 red; upper parts slightly richer brownish-red. Adult 9 similar to same 

 sex in P. t. testacea but yellower, less greenish below. 



Hemithraupis guira guira (Linn.). One adult female, Perico, Sep- 

 tember 11. 



Thlypopsis inornata (Tacz.). Six adults, both sexes, Tabaconas, 

 Bellavista and Perico, September. 



Ramphocelus carbo connectens Berl. and Stolz. Nine adults, both 

 sexes, Perico and Bellavista, September. 



Tachyphonus rufus (Bodd.). Five adults, both sexes, Perico and 

 Bellavista, September. 



Fringillidae. 



Spinus ictericus pexuanus Berl. Stolz. and Stolzm. 



Five specimens, one immature male and adults of both sexes, Bellavista 

 and Huancabamba, August and September. Our specimens are not quite 

 typical of true S. i. peruanus of Central Peru, though probably nearer 

 that form than any of the others. Compared with one or two specimens 

 of peruanus they are brighter yellow below with brighter yellow rumps, 

 thus closely approaching S. i. alleni Ridg. of Matto Grosso, but our birds 

 have grayish not olive-yellow edges of tertials. They differ at once from 



