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Habitat. Costa Rica. 
The type is in the British Museum—Salvin-Godman Col- 
lection—and was collected, at Bebedero, Costa Rica, by 
Mr. C. F. Underwood, on September 15, 1893 ; and the 
female described was collected, also by Mr. Underwoed, at 
Pozo Azul, February 1898. 
Empidonomus varius parvirostris, subsp. nov. 
Adult male. Differs from HE. varius varius (Vieill.), from 
Paraguay, in being smaller in general measurements and 
the coloration somewhat darker. 
Total length 160 mm., exposed culmen 12, wing 97, tail 
76, tarsus 15. 
Habitat. British Guiana. 
The type is in the McConnell collection, and was collected 
on the Kamakabra River in 1911. 
Mr. Grecory M. Maruews sent the following descrip- 
tions of new subspecies of Australian birds * :— 
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Demigretta matook carteri, subsp. nov. 
Differs from D. m. torment: (Mathews) in being bluer on 
the mantle and general plumage (not brownish blue). The 
bill is 12 mm. shorter and the tarsus 10 mm. shorter. Bill 
is purplish, not orange-yellow. 
Type. Cape Leeuwin, South-west Australia. Collected 
April 9th, 1919. 
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Aphelocephala castaneiventris minilya, subsp. nov. 
Differs from A. ¢. castaneiventris Milligan in being. darker 
above, with the flanks a much deeper brown. 
Type. Minilya River, Mid-west Australia. Collected 
September 15th, 1916. 
* The page-numbers refer to Mathews’s ‘List of the Birds of 
Australia,’ 1913. 
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