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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 1953, Vol. 66 We thank Dr. John T. Zimmer, American Museum of Natural History, and Mr. James Greenway, J r., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam bridge, for access to the collections of those institutions. Specimens listed as examined are in the Phelps Collection, Caracas, unless otherwise specified. Names of colors are capitalized when direct comparison has been made with Ridgway's Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, 1912. Wing measurements are of the chord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.