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respect. Apparently they show slight variation toward the large- 

 billed S. 0. rufescens found farther west. The two taken, both females, 

 measure as follows: Wing 87.0, 91.9, taU 82,3, 85.5, culmen from base 

 18.2, 18.5, tarsus 22.6, 23.2 mm. In both there is a faint wash of buff 

 across the breast, but the center of the abdomen is white. 



SALTATOR COERULESCENS BREWSTERI Bangs and Penard 



Saliator olivascens brewsteri Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 62, 

 Apr. 1918, p. 91 (Caparo, Trinidad). 



An adult female in partial molt was taken on November 16 near 

 El Sombrero among fairly large trees in dense scrub. Others were 

 observed on November 18. 



SALTATOR STRIATIPICTUS STRIATIPICTUS Lafresnaye 



Saltator striatipictus Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., vol. 10, Mar. 1847, p. 73 (Cali, 

 Cauca Valley, Colombia) . 



One was taken in scrub growth near Ocumare de la Costa on Octo- 

 ber 26. 



COCCOPSIS NIGRO-GENIS (Lafresnaye) 



Nemosia nigro-genis Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., vol. 9, 1846, p. 273 (mouth of the 

 Orinoco River, Venezuela). 



On November 16 I shot an adult male as it flew out from dense 

 scrub and three days later noted several more in thickets along the 

 Kfo Guarico. This point seems to be the farthest north at which 

 these birds have yet been recorded, though it is probable that they 

 will be found to extend to the north to the vicinity of Ortiz. 



After a further review of the subject I still feel that this species and 

 its near relatives in more slender bill, less rounded culmen, less abrupt 

 deflexure at the gape, more exposed nostrils and more rounded tail 

 are generically distinct from the species typical of Paroaria, so that the 

 genus Coccopsis should be recognized. In my original statement ^° 

 through a slip of the pen I wrote "more strongly rounded culmen" 

 when the reverse is what was intended. Unless actual, direct inter- 

 gradation can be shown I see no reason for considering nigro-genis a 

 geographic race of the black- throated gularis. 



TIARIS BICOLOR OMISSA Jardine 



Tiaris omissa Jardine, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 20, 1847, p. 332 (Tobage). 



At Ocumare de la Costa the Carib grassquit, an old friend from 

 work in Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, was fairly common, two speci- 

 mens, including adult and immature males, being taken on October 

 27 and 28. The birds were found in small flocks that fed on the 



M U. S. Nat. Mus. BuU. 133, 1926, p. 400. 



