Vol. XIII, pp. 91-108 November 11, 1899 



PROCEEDINGS 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



ON SOME NEW OR RARE BIRDS FROM THE SIERRA 

 NEVADA DE SANTA MARTA, COLOIMBIA. 



BY OUTRAM BANGS. 





From the latter part of January until early April, 1899, Mr. 

 Wilmot W. Brown, Jr., collected, nearl}^ continuously, in the 

 Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, visiting many different 

 stations at altitudes ranging from 3,000 to 15,000 feet. During 

 this period he obtained more than 1,300 birds. The collection 

 contains many species wliich he had not previously taken, some 

 of which are new, besides series of man}' of the rarer species pre- 

 viously known only from a few specimens. 



At a future date I intend, with Mr. Brown's help, to give a 

 complete list, with field-notes, of all the birds he has collected 

 in these mountains. In the present paper, the fourth on the 

 birds of this region.* I merely describe the new forms, record 

 additional specimens of a few of the rarer sjiecies, and give those 

 not previously taken by Mr. Brown. 



Three gentlemen who have been extremely kind to Mr. Brown 

 while in Colombia, and to whom I wish to express my thanks 

 for the aid they have rendered him, are Theodoro V. Henriquez, 

 U. S. consul at Rio Hacha ; Pedro Ciiristoffel, Indian inspector 

 of the Sierra Nevada, and M. Carr, H. M. consul at Santa Marta. 

 Again, I am under great obligations to Mr. Robert Ridgway and 

 Dr. Chas. W. Richmond for allowing the use of the collection of 

 birds in the National Museum, and in giving me valuable assist- 

 ance in determining many species. I am also greatly indebted 

 to my friend, Mr. Chas. F. Batchelder, for his kindness in allow- 

 ing me to examine the Lafresna3'-e types in the collection of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, of which he is curator. 



*See Proc. Biol. See. Wash., XII, pp. 131-144, 157-160, 171-182, 1898. 



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