•2yO Richmond, Three New Birds from Venezuela. I q^ 



$ adult, No. 151,070, U. S. N. M., Margarita Island, July, 1S95, same 

 collector (No. 409). — Does not differ from the male. Wing, 2.2S ; tail 

 (central feathers), 1.34; exposed culmen, .85 inches. 



Lieut. Robinson collected nineteen specimens of this species, 

 which I have compared with three specimens of D.fallax belong- 

 ing to the American Museum of Natural History and kindly for- 

 warded to me by Dr. J. A. Allen. They are uniformly paler than 

 the three examples of D./allax, and all, without exception, have 

 pale flesh colored lower mandibles, while those of fallax are 

 apparently yellow when fresh, at any rate the American Museum 

 specimens have the appearance of having had yellow lower man- 

 dibles in life. There does not appear to be any appreciable 

 variation in the amount of white on the outer tail-feathers in 

 D. pallida, and the area occupied by white on these feathers is 

 the same in both species. 



In both forms the feathers of the under parts are edged with 

 buff, the less exposed part of the feathers being different shades 

 of fulvous (light in pallida, and darker in fallax), consequently 

 the more worn the plumage, the darker the birds appear. The 

 majority of specimens of jD. pallida are in somewhat worn plu- 

 mage, while the three specimens of D. fallax are in quite fresh 

 condition, hence the differences between the two species pointed 

 out above will probably be greater when the two birds are com- 

 pared in the same condition of plumage. 



Cardinalis robinsoni, new species. 



Zy^e, No. 151,072, U. S. N. M., $ adult, Margarita Island, July, 1S95 ; 

 Wirt Robinson ; collector's No. 460. — Similar to C. pkcemceushut smaller, 

 with considerably shorter crest. Apparently no difference in color. 

 Wing, 3.26 ; tail, 3.29; tarsus, .96; culmen, .76; length of crest, 1.17 inches. 



The female, of which two specimens are in the collection, differs in the 

 same manner. 



All of the five specimens obtained on Margarita are in worn 

 plumage and somewhat bleached. The single female of C. pJuvui- 

 ceus at hand is in fresh plumage, and the under parts are deep 

 ochraceous buff, with the middle of the abdomen buff ; the two 

 specimens of C. robinsoni are pale creamy buff below, slightly 



