178 Bangs On Some Birds from Santa Maria, Colombia. 



Cassidix oryzivora (Gmel.). 



Four specimens, adult males, and female, and young male, from Palo- 

 mina. 



Spinus spinescens capitaneus subsp. nov. 



Three adult males from San Miguel. 



Type.Yrom San Miguel, Colombia. No. 5674, tf adult, coll. of E. A. 

 and O. Bangs. Collected June 14, 1898, by W. W. Brown, Jr. Altitude, 

 7500 ft. 



Subspecific characters. Like true S. spinescens but much larger ; bill very 

 much larger. 



Color. Adult tf : Forehead and crown black; occiput, cervix, back and 

 upper tail-coverts dark oil green, slightly touched with indistinct dusky 

 markings ; lower rump bright olive green ; wings black, crossed by a 

 broad yellow band, middle and greater coverts tipped with oil green ; 

 secondaries edged with green, tipped with whitish ; primaries narrowly 

 edged with green and just tipped with whitish ; under parts between oil 

 green and olive yellow, more green on throat, upper breast, sides and 

 flanks, more yellow on lower breast, upper abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts ; center of belly whke ; tail black, yellow at base. 



Size. Adult $ : Length, skin, 106; wing, 70.8 ; tail, 46.2 ; exposed cul- 

 men, 1 1 ; depth of bill at base, 7.6 ; tarsus, 14.2. 



Remarks. The three skins agree very closely among themselves and 

 differ from true & spinescens in being much larger, especially the bill. 



Brachyspiza capensis peruviana (Lesson). 

 Four adult males, from San Miguel. 



Buarremon melanocephalus Salv. and Godm. 



Twenty specimens, males, females, and young in first plumage, from 

 San Miguel, Palomina, and San Francisco. 



The young are similar to the adults but the colors are all duller, the 

 back is more olivaceous, and the under parts duller yellow, somewhat 

 marked on the sides and chest with dusky spots. 



Saltator magnus (Gmel.). 



Four adults, males and females, from San Miguel and Palomina. I 

 still doubt whether this bird is true S. magnus, but having no specimens 

 from Cayenne for comparison, must let it pass as such. 



Arremon schlegeli Bp. 

 Four adults, males and females, from Palomina and San Miguel. 



