302 PROCEEDINGS OF^THE ACADEMY OF [1899. 



ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM THE VICINITY OF BOGOTA, WITH A 



EEVIEW OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF SPEOTYTO 



AND TROGLODYTES. 



BY WITHER STONE. 



Through the generosity of Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, President of 

 the Academy, the institution has come into possession of a collec- 

 tion of birds made in 1888-89, by the late Dr. J. W. Detwiller 

 in the vicinity of Bogota, Colombia. So many specimens have been 

 obtained from this region that a list of the species adds but few to 

 those ali'eady recorded in Bogota collections. The fact, however, 

 that these specimens, with but few exceptions, are marked with 

 definite locahties renders them of greater importance as throwing 

 some hght upon the distribution of the species. 



The principal points at which specimens were obtained are 

 Honda, on the Magdalena river, seventy miles northwest of Bo- 

 gota; Ambalema, farther up the Magdalena, about forty miles 

 from Bogota; Ibague, ninety miles west, on the slopes of the 

 central Cordilleras, and on the Nevada del Tolima, about twenty 

 miles west of Ibague. A few were also collected at Villa Vicencia 

 east of the eastern Cordilleras in the Territory of San Martin, 

 sixty miles southeast of Bogota, and on the headwaters of the 

 Meta, a branch of the Orinoco. 



The hst follows. Unless otherwise stated only one specimen was 

 secured, and where no locality is mentioned the labels have been 

 lost, 

 Merganetta columbiana (DeMurs). 



No exact data. 

 Belonopterus cayennensis (Gmel.). 



Plain of Tolima. 

 Ortalis caracco (Wagl.). 



Magdalena river, February 5, 1888. 

 Zenaida ruficauda (Gray). 



Plain of Tolima. 



