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narrow black bars, and the flanks creamy-buff narrowly 
barred with brown, instead of blackish with buffy-white bars. 
Total length 295 mm.; exposed culmen 25; wing 172; 
tail 46 ; tarsus 50. 
Hab. Venezuela. 
The type, which is in the British Museum, was collected 
in the neighbourhood of Caraccas, Venezuela, by Mr. J. M. 
Spence. 
Crypturus obsoletus punensis, subsp. nov. 
Adult male. Differs from C. obsoletus obsoletus in its 
smaller size and the deeper and richer coloration of the 
entire plumage. 
Total length 240 mm.; exposed culmen 21; wing 151; 
tail 40; tarsus 46. 
Hab. South Peru and West Bolivia. 
The type, which is in the British Museum, was collected 
at Oroya, Puno, Peru, by P. O. Simons. 
I propose a new name—WMicrocrypturus—tor the genus 
Crypturellus Brabourne & Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
(ser. 8) xiv. Oct. 1914, p. 322, which is, unfortunately, 
preoccupied. 
Rhynchotus rufescens alleni, subsp. nov. 
Adult male. Allied to R. rufescens cotinge, but differs in 
having the black bars on the back much narrower, the 
sandy rufous on the neck and upper breast deeper in colour, 
the remainder of the under surface of the body darker and 
more rufescent, and the rufous on the under wing deeper in 
colour. 
Total length 280 mm.; exposed culmen 36; wing 195 ; 
tail 54; tarsus 58 ; middle toe and claw 48. 
Hab. Central Brazil. 
The type, which is in the British Museum, was collected 
by Herbert H. Smith at Chapada, Matto Grosso. 
Nothoprocta pentlandii simonsi, subsp. nov. 
Adult female. Similar to N. p. pentlandi, but differs in 
