On Some Birds fro)it Santa 3Iarta, Colornhia. 101 



posed culmen, 13. Adult 9. No. 6179, topotype : Wing, 62 ; tail, 29.4; 

 tarsuH, 23.6; exposed culmen, 12.4. 



Jiemarks. — C. brovmi does not need comparison with any known form. 

 The one female recorded from Puehlo Viejo, 8,000 feet,* is like the present 

 series from Chirna. 



Scytalopus sylvestris Tacz. 



One male, not fully adult, from San Francisco Jan. 24, 1899. It is not 

 unlikely that fully adult specimens will show the Santa Marta bird to be 

 an undescribed species. The wing measures 46 mm., wdiicli is shorter 

 than usual in »S'. sylvestris. I have compared it with *S. argenlifrons Ridgw. , 

 and it is certainly not that species. For the present it may be well to 

 call it syh'estris. 



Scytalopus latebricolaf sp. nov. 



Seven specimens, six females and one male, fi'om Paramo de Chiruqua 

 and Paramo de Macotama, 11,000 to 12,000 feet. 



Type, from Paramo de Chiruqua, Colombia ; altitude, 12,000 feet. No. 

 6208, ? adult, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected INIarch 10, 1899, 

 by W. W. Brown, Jr. 



Specific characters. ^Scytalopus latebricola has the large feet, tarsus, and 

 bill of the S. analis group, but in size is smaller and has a much shorter 

 tail than S. analis. Colors different, much more reddish brown on rump, 

 flanks, and upjier tail-coverts. Sexes apparently alike. 



Color. — Adult, head and back dark brownish slate; lower rump and 

 upper tail-coverts chestnut, with indistinct blackish cross-bars ; wings 

 and tail dull brownish black ; throat and breast brownish slate gray (al- 

 most mouse gray of Ridgway), paler and more silvery on middle of lower 

 breast and upper part of belly ; flanks, lower sides, and under taii-coverts 

 chestnut, with slight irregular spots and cross-bars of dusky; l)ill horn 

 color ; feet and tarsus brown. 



Younger birds (Nos. 6212 and 6210) differ in having more chestnut on 

 the back and breast, in being more decidedly barred on flanks, etc., and 

 in having tertials and wing -coverts barred with chestnut and tipped with 

 yellowish brown, and primaries edged with chestnut. 



*Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. XII, p. 159, LS98. 



t Latebricola, one who dwells in coverts or lurking-places. 



