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Remarks.— Of six males and four females only one male (from British 
Guiana) may be considered as topotypical. Unfortunately it is in much 
too worn plumage to represent the characters of its race satisfactorily. 
The grayish terminal tail-band is practically worn off, the quills badly 
frayed, and the color both above and below evidently much faded. ‘The 
underparts are decidedly paler than in the five males from Eastern Vene-: 
zuela, but the crown is much darker. Possibly the Venezuela birds are 
separable but with only this one poor specimen from Guiana for comparison 
itis clearly not possible to determine their status conclusively. Itis evident, 
however, that they are much nearer to zsabellina than to ochracea. 
Specimens examined.— Venezuela: Caicara, Orinoco, 1o7, 19 ; Maripa, 
Rio Caura, 36'co’, 22 2; San Antonio, Bermudez, 16’, 19; British 
Guiana, lo’. , 
Cerchneis sparverius ochracea Cory. 
Cerchneis sparverius ochracea Cory, Field Mus. Pub. Nat. Hist. 182, 1915, p. 298. 
(Colon, Tachira, W. Venezuela). 
Char. subsp.— Similar to C. s. isabellina! but larger and deeper in color; the 
underparts, except throat, much more richly colored, pinkish cinnamon instead of 
light pinkish cinnamon; this color appearing more or less strongly on the abdomen, 
flanks, and thighs; male with the black bars on the wing-quills wider, the white 
areas correspondingly more restricted; female more heavily streaked below. Closely: 
resembling C. s. equatorialis in color, but much smaller. 
Range.— Eastern Colombia from the eastern slopes of the Central Andes, across: 
the upper Magdalena Valley over the Eastern Andes (ascending to the Temperate: 
Zone) to the llanos, north and northeast to Paramo de Tama, Lake Maracaibo, and. 
Merida, Venezuela. 
Remarks.— This form is represented by eighteen males and thirteen 
females in our collection, chiefly from the Bogoté region, and by two males,. 
including the type, and two females from the Field Museum loaned me by 
Mr. Cory. It appears not to vary in color or in size with altitude and 
ranges from the Tropical to the Temperate Zone. There is, however, con- 
siderable individual variation in both color and pattern. 
The type appears to be more richly colored than the average specimen 
but can be closely matched by five or six of our males. Several males are: 
much paler below and more nearly resemble males from the Lower Orinoco, 
which I have provisionally called isabellina. Of twenty males, nine are 
practically spotless below, in the remaining eleven there are from two or 
three, to half a dozen small spots on each flank. -. 
1 As this form is represented by the specimens mentioned above. 
