°,g' J Phelps, Birds observed in Venezuela. 3^0 



distinctness of these Venezuelan birds, however, is so apparent that I 

 have no hesitation in describing them as new. They closely agree inter se 

 in both size and color, and are readily distinguishable from any one of 

 a series containing nearly fifty specimens of Elainea p. albiceps. — 

 F. M. C] 



Found in Cumanacoa in large trees in the open country. Average 

 length, in meat, 5.9 inches. Iris brown. Upper mandible brown, lower 

 pinkish flesh, brown at tip. Legs brownish black. 



Leptopogon superciliaris Cab. [Two specimens, extending the range 

 of this species from Colombia to Venezuela. — F. M. C.]. 



Pachyrhamphus polychropterus cinereiventris (Sci.). [Two adult 

 males are intermediate between J-*, polychropterus iiiger and P. p. ciner- 

 eiventris, but are slightly nearer to the latter than to the former. — F. M. C] 



Siptornis subcristata Scl. Salv. [Mr. Phelps's collection contains a 

 single example of a Siptornis which very probably should be referred to 

 this rare species. The type of 6". subcristata was collected by Goering at 

 Caracas and is figured in the 'Proceedings' of the Zoological Society for 

 1874 (PI- IV, fig. i). Apparently the same bird is again figured in the 

 Catalogue of the British Museum (Vol. XX. PI. IV). The differences 

 between these figures are so great that they might well represent distinct 

 species, and while Mr. Phelps's specimen is about as far from the P. Z. S. 

 figure as the latter is from the figure in the British Museum Catalogue, 

 it seems more advisable to assume that neither figure is correct than to 

 describe this specimen under a new name. — F. M. C] 



Phacellodomus inornatus Ridgzu. [An adult female differs from 

 P. frontalis as described by Mr. Ridgway (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1887, 

 p. "i52).-F. M. C] 



[Sittasomus phelpsi, sp. nov.i 



Char. Sp. — Differing from previously described species in its clear 

 olive-green head and back, and in having the under parts but slightlv 

 paler than the upper parts. 



Description of type (No. 1496, Coll. W. H. P., Caripe, Venezuela, 

 August 7, 189^, W. H. Phelps). Head, back, wing-coverts and exposed 

 ' margins of the basal half of the primaries clear olive-green with no 

 admixture of rufous or grayish ; exposed part of inner secondaries, 

 outer margin of apical portion of primaries and remaining secondaries, 

 rump, upper and under tail-coverts, and rectrices bright chestnut-rufous- 

 under parts a tint lighter than the back; under wing-coverts and sub-basal 

 portion of the inner web of the secondaries and inner primaries yellow- 

 ish white. Wing, 3.10; tail, 3.06; tarsus, .70; bill from anterior maru-in of 

 nostril to end of lower mandible (upper mandible broken), .40. 



' Named in honor of its collector, Mr. W. H. Phelps. 



