94 Bangs On Some Birds from Santa Marta, Colombia. 



Lafresnaya gayi Bourc. and Muls. 



Four specimens, three males and one female, from Macotama, San 

 Miguel, and Paramo de Chiruqua. 



Rhamphomicron dorsale Salv. and Godm. 



Four specimens. An adult female and two adult males were taken at Pa 

 ramo de Chiruqua, at the edge of the snow, on Mar. 25 and Feb. 25, 1399, 

 at an altitude of 15,000 feet. A young male taken at La Concepcion, 

 Feb. 16, 1899, at 3,000 feet, is much like the adult female, having a green 

 back and spotted underparts ; its tail, however, is like that of the adult 

 male, except that the ends of the feathers are decidedly tipped with 

 white. 



Anthocephala floriceps (Gould). 



Nine specimens, from Pueblo Viejo (8,000 feet), Santa Cruz, La Con 

 cepcion, San Francisco, and Chirua. Four are adult males, two adult 

 females, and three young males. The female has already been described 

 by Messrs. Salvin and Godman. It differs from the male in lacking the 

 crown patch, the top of the head being dull coppery green, much like the 

 color of the rump. The tail is colored alike in both sexes ; that of the 

 female, however, has the central rectrices narrower. The whole tail is a 

 little shorter and smaller than in the adult male. The young male is 

 similar to the adult female. 



Mr. Brown- was especially on the lookout for the local species of hum 

 mers, none of which, except Metallura districta (described below) and 

 Panychlora russata, seem to be easy to get. Before he started on his sec 

 ond trip he carefully studied the plates and descriptions of Oxypogon cy- 

 analxmus and Campylopterus phainopeplus, so as to know the birds at once, 

 but during nearly three months of active collecting he never saw a living 

 example of either species. 



Metallura districta* sp. nov. 



Sixteen specimens from Pueblo Viejo (8,000 feet), La Concepcion, San 

 Miguel, Paramo de Macotama, Macotama and Paramo de Chiruqua. 



Type, from San Miguel, Colombia; altitude, 7,500 feet. No. 6223, 9 

 adult, coll. of E. A. and 0. Bangs. Collected Feb. 6, 1899, by W. W. 

 Brown, Jr. 



Specific characters. Adult $ with much the general appearance of M. 

 smaragdinicollis, except that the rectrices are wider ; the color of the tail 

 is more auricular purple, less truly violet; under tail-coverts buffy ; adult 

 9 differing from 9 of M. smaragdinicollis in being paler on throat and 

 breast, and of a more uniform color, and in being very much less spotted 

 with green below. 



Color. Adult tf: Upper surface dark, shining grass green ; wings dark 

 purplish brown ; bend of wing rufous ; under surface shining grass green, 



*Districtus, busy, occupied. 



