SOME NEW BIRDS FROM VENEZUELA. 
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3. Sip tornis certhia n, sp. 
Above, like S. virgata (Solt.), brown varied with black and covered 
with longitudinal white shaft-stripes, which are reddish on the head; 
superciliary stripe white; throat and breast white, with longitudinal black 
stripes, formed by the black margins of the feathers ; belly light grayish- 
brown, obsoletely striped with white ; wings and tail blackish-brown, for¬ 
mer margined with lighter brown; under wing-coverts ochraceous; bill 
and feet black. Whole length 17, wing 6*3-—6*5, tail &—9*5, culmen 
1, tarsus 1*9 cm. 
Young birds differ from the adults in being the longitudinal stripes 
above somewhat obscurior, the wing-coverts and remiges margined with 
reddish-brown, the belly suffused with fulvous, and obsoletely barred with 
blackish. 
Specimens : 
a. cf San Antonio.. ..... A .. 3000 mt. 
b. cf « « .... ;... .... .. 3000 mt. ... 
c. cf « « .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 3000 mt. . 
d. cf juv. « « .... .... .. 4000 mt. ... 
e. $ juv. Paramo de Santo Domingo .... 2500 mt. 
March 8-th, 1902. 
Apr. 8-th, 1902. 
Apr. 14-th, 1902. 
June 20-th, 1902. 
Apr. 24-th, 1902. 
4. Synallaxis occipitalis n. sp. 
Similar to S. albescens Temm., but larger; above somewhat grayer 
and darker; red on the head resricted to the occipital part; below dark 
brownish-gray ; throat and a small line in the middle of belly white. 
Whole length 17*5, wing 6, tail 9, culmen 1*2, tarsus 2 cm. 
Specimens : 
a. cf Valle .. .... .... .... 3000 mt. .... .... .... .... June 27-th, 1902. 
b. ad. Escorial ...._... .... .... .... 3000 mt. .... .... .... .... Sept. 4-th, 1902. 
5. Dendrexetastes berlepschi n. sp. 
The coloration of this new species almost the same as in Xypho- 
colaptes promeropirhynchus (Less.), but differing only by its somewhat 
smaller size, by its shorter, flatter and nearly strait bill (the end of upper 
mandible hooked), by its weaker feet, and by the short and rounded 
feathers on the throat (in X. promeropirhynchus they are long and rather 
lanceolate). 
