368 PuHetps, Birds observed in Venezuela. eee 
Basileuterus vermivorus olivascens Chagm. Common in San Antonio 
in the underbrush, especially near water. 
[ Four specimens agree with a series of eight examples, including the 
type, from Trinidad.— F. M. C.] 
Ammodramus manimbe (Zzcht.). Common in the savannas. 
[ Three adults agree exactly in color with specimens from Matto Grosso, 
Brazil, in corresponding plumage, but are considerably smaller. The 
average measurements, in inches, of the three Venezuelan birds and four 
from Matto Grosso are as follows: 
Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 
Venezuela 2.11 1.54 fi 
Matto Grosso 2.37 1.83 71 
The Venezuelan birds have, therefore, shorter wings and tail but equally 
long tarsi, facts which suggest that they may be more sedentary than the 
birds of southern Brazil.— F. M. C.] 
Icterus xanthornus (Gm.). [An immature female, apparently in its 
second year, has the wings fuscous, the tail brownish yellow, the back 
greenish, but otherwise resembles the adult. A bird of the year is simi- 
larly colored but has only four black feathers on the throat. Neither 
plumage appears to have been previously described.— F. M. C.] 
Elainea pagana (Licht.). [Five specimens in worn plumage are typical 
of this species.— F. M. C.] . 
[Elainea albiventris, sp. nov. 
Char. Sf.—Similar to Elatnea pagana albiceps but with the upper 
parts much greener and the under parts whiter. 
Description of type (No. 1180, Coll. W. H. P., Cumanacoa, Venezuela, 
July 3, 1897, W. H. Phelps). Upper parts uniform ol¢ve-green with a 
barely perceptible brownish tinge; wings fuscous, the greater and lesser 
coverts tipped with dingy yellowish white forming two conspicuous 
wing-bars; outer margin of the terminal part of the inner secondaries 
dingy yellowish white; tail fuscous, the feathers margined externally 
with brownish olive-green, the under surface of their shafts nearly pure 
white; a concealed white crown-patch; throat and breast grayesh white ; 
middle of the belly whzte; sides of the breast, sides, and flanks washed 
with greenish yellow; under wing-coverts lemon yellow; crissum pale 
yellow. Wing, 2.68; tail, 2.34; tarsus, .72; exposed culmen, .34; 
breadth of bill at anterior end of nostril, .16. 
This species is represented in Mr. Phelps’s collection by four adult 
specimens, one male and three females, which are just completing the 
(post-breeding) moult. It is only after careful comparison of these speci- 
mens with a large series of Elaznea p. albiceps from southern Brazil that 
I have decided to add a species to an already overburdened genus. The 
