88 Cory, New Birds from South America. [j^ 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW BIRDS FROM SOUTH 

 AMERICA. 



CHARLES B. CORY. 



Taraba major approximans subsp. nov. 



Type from Serra Baturite, Ceara, Brazil. Adult male, No. 49017, 

 Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by R. H. Becker, July 19, 

 1913. 



Description. — Similar to T. major major from southern Brazil, Para- 

 guay, etc., but with more white on the tail, bands on tail more complete 

 and larger, and all the tail feathers with some white markings, the middle 

 feathers with borders marked with small white spots; white edgings of 

 the primaries and wing coverts broader and more conspicuous. 



Measurements.- — Wing, 91 ; tail, 102; bill, 25; tarsus, 33 mm. 



Remarks. — Seventeen specimens examined. The females have 

 the upper parts brighter and more rufous than in females of either 

 T. major major or T. major semifasdatus. Specimens from Macaco 

 Secco, near Andarahy, Bahia, appear to be intermediate. 



Erionotus cearensis sp. nov. 



Type from Serra Baturite, Ceara, Brazil. Adult male, No. 47674, 

 Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by R. H. Becker, July 15, 

 1913. 



Description.- — Similar to Erionotus cccrulescens (Vieill.) from Paraguay 

 (and agreeing with that species in having the tertials with grayish white 

 edges, the whitish belly, and elongated marginal spot, 12 mm., on outer 

 tail feather), but differs in having the white markings on the wing coverts 

 decidedly broader; terminal third of under tail coverts pure white and 

 bill heavier and slightly longer. 



Measurements. — Wing, 71; tail, 69; culmen, 16 mm. 



Drymophila richmondi nom. nov. 



Dr. Hellmayr (Abh. Ak. Wiss., Munchen, XXII, 1906, p. 663) proposed 

 Formicirora ochropyga as a new name for Formicirora striata (nee Thamno- 

 philus siriatus Spix) Sclater, Cat. Bds. Brit, Mus., XV, 1890, p. 252, but 

 Dr. C. W. Richmond has called my attention to the fact that ochropyga 

 is also preoccupied by Formicirora ochropyga Pelzeln. I, therefore, take 

 pleasure in proposing that it shall be called Drymophila richmondi. 



