4S4 BERhEPSCH, Descr////o//s of Xeiu IVeoiropicttl Birds. [October 



Long. tot. 150-175, al. 85^-94, caiid. 7^4-8^4, culm. 15^-16^. tars 

 2oi-22 mm. 



Of tliis form I have examined no less than eleven specimens, 

 all of them collected in the neighborhood of Pto. Cabello, 

 Venezuela. They agree pretty well among themselves in color- 

 ation and in all characters by which they are difl'erent from true 

 cristata of Bogota, viz. : the paler and purer yellow of the breast 

 and abdomen and the lighter throat, which is not so distinctly 

 flammulatcd with darker stripes as in the bird of Colombia. The 

 lores and the region round the eye are not so black as in the 

 latter, and the crest seems to be always shorter. It is also a bird 

 of somewhat inierior size. 



I got a specimen from Baranquilla on the coast of Colombia 

 which agrees best with a Bogota skin, viz. true cristata of 

 Dubus. Nevertheless it has the small dimensions of the Pto. 

 Cabello bird. 



7. Icterus gularis yucatanensis, subsp. nov. 



DiAGN. — I. gulari Wagl. ex Mexico merid. occ. affinis, sed minor, ro&tra 

 imprimis breviore. Colore corporis avis adultae aurantiaco intensiore 

 potiiis rubro-aurantio splendidissimo. 



Long. tot. 222-224, al. 107-119, caiid. ioi-ii2-i, cuhn. 2ih,-2-i^h, tars 

 28-29.4 mm. 



This I consider to be a strongly marked race of the common 

 Icterus gularis^ being apparently a representative form of it 

 and confined to tke peninsula of Yucatan. 



/. gularis has been described by Wagler as a bird of Mexico 

 from a specimen in the Berlin Musuem. Being aware of this 

 fact and liaving convinced myself that four specimens from 

 Yucatan in my collection agreed in several characters by wliich 

 again they were different from two skins of /. gularis from 

 Guatemala and Tehuantepec, Western Mexico, I forwarded my 

 skins to Prof. Cabanis of Berlin asking him to compare them with 

 Wagler's type of /. gularis. 



My respected friend, having accomplished my wishes with his 

 usual kindness, replied as follows : "Wagler's type of I. gularis 

 agrees perfectly with your skins (from Tehuantepec and Guate- 

 mala) both in coloration and size, and is of the same origin 

 (viz. Tehuantepec)." 



Some time later I asked Prof. Ridgway what was his opinion 



