Vol. XIV 
1897 Puetps, Birds observed in Venezuela. 369 
distinctness of these Venezuelan birds, however, is so apparent that I 
have no hesitation in describing them asnew. They closely agree iler se 
in both size and color, and are readily distinguishable from any one of 
a series containing nearly fifty specimens of Llacnea p. albiceps. — 
FE. M. €.] 
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 Cad. [Two specimens, extending the range 
of this species from Colombia to Venezuela. — F. NICe 
Pachyrhamphus polychropterus cinereiventris (Sc/.). [Two adult 
males are intermediate between P. polychropterus niger and P. p. ctner- 
eiventris, but are slightly nearer to the latter than to the former.— F.M. C.] 
Siptornis subcristata Sci. Sa/v. [Mr. Phelps’s collection contains a 
single example of a S¢ptornis which very probably should be referred to 
this rare species. The type of S. subcristata was collected by Goering at 
Caracas and is figured in the ‘Proceedings’ of the Zoological Society for 
1874 (Pl. IV, fig. 1). Apparently the same bird is again figured in the 
Catalogue of the British Museum (Vol. XX. Pl. 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. 5S. 
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. Ca 
Phacellodomus inornatus Aédgw. [An adult female differs from 
P. frontalis as described by Mr. Ridgway (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1887, 
p- 152).—F. M. C.] 
[Sittasomus phelpsi, sp. nov.? 
Char. Sp.—Differing from previously described species in its clear 
olive-green head and back, and in having the under parts but slightly 
paler than the upper parts. 
Description of type (No. 1496, Coll. W. H. P., Caripe, Venezuela, 
August 7, 1897, 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 margin of 
nostril to end of lower mandible (upper mandible broken), .40. 
1 Named in honor of its collector, Mr. W. H. Phelps. 
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