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however, and I suspect the existence of two other subspecies in 

 addition to the ones described below. 



1. Claravis mondetoura mondetoura Bonaparte. 



Type locality. — Caracas, Venezuela. 



Range. — Mountains of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and 

 Peru, a scant dozen localities in all. 



Adult male. — Back, rump, and upper tail-coverts fuscous or 

 chaetura drab; basal third of outer tail feathers black; axillars 

 and under wing-coverts blackish brown, more or less strongly 

 tipped with cinnamon. 



Adult female. — Forehead and chin deeper cinnamon; upper- 

 parts browner, less olive or gray, becoming strongly tinged with 

 rusty on rump and tail coverts; relatively darker and more 

 olive brown below; axillars deep cinnamon rufous. 



Remarks. — The diagnosis of males is based on specimens from 

 Bogota and East Ecuador in default of a topotype. The 

 diagnosis of the female is based, however, on 3 topotypes from 

 Merida. I note that two females from Colombia differ markedly 

 from Venezuela specimens in being paler below, more grayish 

 brown, and white in the center of the abdomen. When males 

 can be compared, the Colombian bird may well prove separable. 

 The female at least is a connecting link toward the west Panama 

 form. 



Claravis mondetoura pulchra, subsp. nov. 



Type. — Mus. Comp. Zool. no. 109,178; adult male, collected at Boquete, 

 3000 ft., western Panama, March 27, 1901, by W. W. Brown. 



Adult male. — Radically different from Colombia and Ecuador males in 

 being deep neutral gray even on rump and upper tail-coverts; axillars uniform 

 very dark gray. (Three specimens). 



Adult female. — Forehead pale cinnamon, chin mostly white; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts dark sepia, less rufous; much paler below, even grayer, 

 with more white, than Colombian females; axillars blackish brown. (Two 

 specimens.) 



Claravis mondetoura umbrina, subsp. nov. 



Type. — Mus. Comp. Zool. no. 116,433; adult female, collected at La Estrella 

 de Cartago, Costa Rica, Dec. 28, 1900, by C. F. Underwood. 



Adult male. — Resembling the South American rather than the Chiriqui 

 form in being slightly fuscous above; axillars blackish as in all Central Ameri- 

 can forms. (One specimen). 

 ■ Adult female. — Quite different from any other form in that the underparts 



