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of the subterminal black tail-tip and by other characters as has been shown 

 by Hellmayr (Archiv. fur Naturg., 1912, p. 133). 



Miraflores, 1; La Palma, 1; Andalucia, (7000 ft.) 1. 



(2171) Chamseza moUissima Scl. 

 ChamcEza molissima Scl., P. Z. S., 1855, p. 89, pi. 95 (Bogota). 



Found by us only in the Temperate Zone of the Central Andes. Speci- 

 mens from Laguneta are larger than the type (wing, cf, 90; 9 , 85 mm.) and 

 more narrowly barred below than Sclater's figure of it. An Almaguer speci- 

 men is decidedly more ruf escent above approaching in this respect a specimen 

 from " Ambato," Ecuador. I have seen no topotypical specimens. 



Almaguer, 1; Laguneta, 2. 



(2173) Pittasoma rosenbergi Hellm. 



Pittasoma rosenbergi Hellm., Rev. Franc. d'Orn., II, 1911, p. 51; P. Z. S., 1911, 

 p. 1175 (Rio Sipi, 150ft., w. Col.). 



Of this interesting bird, hitherto known only from the male type, we 

 have two adult males and one adult and one immature female, all from the 

 low Pacific coast region to which the species appears to be restricted. The 

 males agree with Hellmayr's {I. c.) description. 



The adult female differs from the male mainly in having the broad, 

 black superciliary striped with white. The belly is more fulvous but this 

 feature appears to be individual rather than sexual since it is not shown by 

 the immature female. In that specimen the superciliary is barely evident, 

 this part of the head being much like the crown which is dull chestnut 

 bordered with blackish. The tips to the coverts are ochraceous, of the 

 color of the throat; the belly has a slight ochraceous tinge but is by no 

 means so deeply colored as in the adult female. A few soft downy, black- 

 ish feathers of the juvenal plumage are on the flanks. The ingrowing 

 whitish feathers at the sides of the -abdomen exhibit a faint but unmis- 

 takable trace of cross-bars, and this character is present but in an even 

 fainter degree on the remaining three specimens. 



Baudo (3500 ft.), 1; Novita, 2; Noanama, 1. 



(2173a) Pittasoma harterti sp. nov. 



Char. sp. — Most nearly related to Pittasoma rufopileatum Hart, and P. rosenbergi 

 Hellm., but male with the entire underparts ochraceous-orange; the superciliary 

 stripe in the female ochraceous-ordnge and black. 



