Vol 'wi9 XVI ] Cory, Three new South American Birds. 541 



Description. — Adult male, ground color of crown dark brown, the 

 feathers with shaft stripes of pale tawny rufous; back olive brownish, the 

 feathers with fine shaft streaks of buffy white; wing coverts and exposed 

 portion of primaries and secondaries (outer edges only with closed wing) 

 olive brownish like the back; throat plain buffy white; lores, suborbital 

 region; and ear coverts buffy; breast olive brownish, the feathers with 

 broad, longitudinal buffy white stripes which are not bordered with dusky; 

 abdomen and under tail coverts pale olive brown, the middle abdomen 

 spotted as in promeropirhynchus, but dark spots paler and confined to the 

 middle abdomen; bill entirely black. 



Measurements. — Wing, 132; tail, 110; tarsus, 27; bill, 45 mm. 



Remarks. — Allied to A", p. promeropirhynchus (Lesson), but 

 coloration of crown, back, and under parts quite different. 



Dendrocolaptes picumnus cearensis subsp. nov. 



Type from Jua, near Iguatu, Ceara, Brazil. Adult male, No. 50727, 

 Field Museum of Natural History. Collected by R. H. Becker, August 25, 

 1913. 



Description. — Similar to D. p. intermedius Berlepsch from Bahia and 

 central Brazil, but differs in having the general plumage more tinged with 

 tawny, and the upper parts and under parts more tawny olive; upper tail 

 coverts brighter rufous; stripes on crown and breast more tawny (less 

 whitish) . 



Measurements. — Wing, 125; tail, 120; bill, 35 mm. 



