96 Bangs On ^n/r Birds from Santa Maria, Colombia. 



rufus of Bolivia and southern Peru. It differs much, however, from that 

 bird in its streaked throat and breast, as well as in other details of color 

 ing. Although smaller, in a general way O.pemix suggests Myiotheretes 

 striaticollii*, which occurs in the same region with it. The two are, of 

 course, very different in detail, but their superficial resemblance is quite 

 striking. 



Ochthoeca poliogastra Salv. and Godm. 



Fourteen specimens, taken at all stations between 9,000 and 12, 000 feet. 

 On Mr. Brown's first trip he took only a single specimen of this local 

 species. 



Platyrhynchus albogulaiis Scl. 

 One female from La Conception, 3,000 feet, Jan. 29, 1899. 



Euscarthmus granadensis Hartl. 

 One male from La Conception, Jan. 29, 1899. 



Hapalocercus paulus* sp. nov. 



Ten specimens from Chirua, La Conception and San Miguel. 



Type from Chirua, Colombia; altitude, 7,000 feet. No. 6115, $ adult, 

 coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected Mar. 17, 1899, by W. W. Brown, Jr. 



Specific cJiaracters. Nearest H.fulviceps (Scl.) of Ecuador and Peru, but 

 rufous crown patch narrower and shorter, not reaching eye nor bill ; sides 

 of head not distinctly rufus; also differing in details of coloration. 



Color. Above dull olive ; wings dark hair-brown, with paler and more 

 drab edges ; greater and middle coverts tipped with Isabella color (in some 

 specimens cinnamon) forming two wing bars; inner webs of tertials and 

 secondaries broadly edged with buff; tail hair brown witli slight Isabella 

 color -edges and tip ; head subcrested, vertical feathers orange-rufous 

 basally ; sides of crown and forehead like back ; lores, auriculars, and 

 orbital ring dull cinnamon, very different in color from crest; throat, 

 breast, and center of belly whitish, with an ill-defined and indistinct 

 darker pectoral band ; sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts straw-yellow, 

 darkest and slightly tinged with olive on lower sides; lining of wing 

 straw-yellow. Sexes similar. 



Measurements. Type, adult $ : Wing, 45.6; tail, 37; tarsus, 19.6; ex 

 posed culmen, 10. 



Adult cT, No. 6117, from La Conception : Wing, 46; tail, 39; tarsus, 

 19.2; exposed culmen, 10. 



Remarks. H. paulus needs no comparison with the other Colombian 

 species, H. acutipennis, which has acuminated primaries. Its relationship 

 lies with //. fuluiceps of western Ecuador and Peru. 



* Paulus, small, little. 



