348 Hans Graf von Berlepscli : 



darker or more sombre coloration, the back being- of a darker 

 olive-green, with a more brownish cast, the snperciliaries 

 dark olive-green instead of bright yellowish-green, the under 

 parts yellowish olive-green, instead of being* greenish-yellow. 

 I got two skins through Mr. W. Schlüter, of Halle, which 

 are of the common Quito make, and resemble each other, 

 except that in one bird the middle of the crown is of a 

 brighter greenish-yellow, while in the other it is yellowish 

 olive-green, mixed with dull orange. 



3. CaLOSPIZA FORMOSA SPNCIPITALIS Subsp. 11. 



G. G. formosa (Vieill.) dictae ex Mattogrosso simillima ; 

 differt regione frontali solummodo nee pileo toto rufescenti- 

 brunneo lavato. 



Al. 71 \, caud. 48|, culm. 10f, tars. 17* mm. 



Habitat : Leopoldina, P. Araguay, Brazil centr. 



Typus : in Mus. H. v. B. : ( S ) ad., Leopoldina, R. Araguay, 

 15th August, 1888. [v. d. Steinen leg.] 



The single specimen in the Museum Berlepsch collected on 

 the river Araguay by Dr. v. d. Steinen differs from a large 

 series of the so-called G. margaritae Allen from Mattogrosso, 

 kindly forwarded to me by the authorities of the American 

 Museum of Natural History of New York, by having the 

 rufous of the head restricted to the frontal line, while in the 

 Mattogrosso birds it is extended over the greater part of 

 the pileum. In all other respects it agrees closely with the 

 Mattogrosso skins, differing from G. fava in the same way as 

 does G. margaritae. 



Having seen a bird from Paraguay, which agrees in all 

 essential points with my Mattogrosso skins, I have little 

 doubt that G. margaritae Allen must become a synonym of 

 G. formosa (Vieill.), which was based on Azara. 



4. Phoenicothraupis rubica amabilis subsp. 11. 



Syn. Saltator rubicus Lafr. et D'Orb. (nee Vieill.), Synops. 

 Av. in Mag. Zool. 1837 p. 3(3 (Yuracares et G-uarayos). 



Pyranga rubicus D'Orb., Voy. Am. mérid. Ois. p. 265. 



Ph. Ph. rubica (Vieill.) dictae affinis, sed mas a mari hujus 

 speciei differt regione gulari usepxe ad pectus carmineo-rosea, 

 corpore inferiore reliquo roseo griseo mixto, cauda ejusque 



