BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. ^27 



Adult f^nale.-l.^ngt\. (skins), 95-104 ^^-'>)\'^^^ ^'■''-^}^ 

 tail, 43-43.5 (42.8); exposed culmen, 11-12.5 (11.7); tarsus, 16.0-18 

 (IT); middle toe, 9-9.5 (9.2)." . ^ c . ai .fo 



Vevagua (Chitra) to Caribbean coast of Provnice of bantu Malta, 



Colombia (Bonda; Santa Marta). 



m SCuli^ivora] bilmeaia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 316 (Cartagena, Colom- 

 bia- coll. Berlin Mus.; ex Cabanis, manuscript). & _ ^^ _ ^ , 



^^mLptilaMineataSc^^n, Proc. Zool. Soc. ^ond. 18oo 12 Car^^^^^^^^^ 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 18.9, o2, part.^-SnARPE, 

 Cat Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 452, part.c 



(?) ^lioX] ^il'-eata Hkllmavk, Tierreich, 18 Lief., 1903, 27, part (n. coa.st 



rol^XtS^ata BAiRn, Review A,n. Binl., 186^ ^.^^, P-. Biol.^oc. 

 Wash xii, 1898, 144 (Santa Marta, Colombia). -Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 N. H., xiii, 1900, 181 (Bonda, Santa Marta). 

 (?) lPoUoptila-\ bilmeata Sclater and Salvin, ^om. Av. ^eot.., 18.3, 4, part. 

 The following citations pertain to South American localities, and 

 may or mav not represent the true P. Mineata: 



PoHoptna biHneaia Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc Lond. I860 ^73 (Babahoyo, w^ 

 Ecuador) -Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ^ 18 '9, 52, part 

 fclmbia- Ecuador).-SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 188o, 452, part 

 Babaho o, Imeraldas, Guayaquil, and Puna I w. ^-d- Jac-^^'^ 

 Peru) -Taczanowski and Beklepsch, Proc. Zool. Soc^ Lond 1885, .1 

 ( Ya.uachi. Ecuador). -Salvador: and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino 

 xv no 35^ 1899, 3 Babahoyo, Savana de Guayaquil, Vinces, and PuntiUa 

 dl'santa Elena, ;. Ecuador). -Goodeellow, Ibis, 1901, 312 (Santo Domingo, 



PCo.;>";.«;' hII^mavr, Tierreich, 18 Lief., 1903, 27, part (.. Ecuador; 



lc2^MUneata Heine and Eeichenow, Norn. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1882, 24 

 f Fsineraldas. w. Ecuador). , 



Pol^Zil,.: (not P. aM.il.ru, Sclater an.l Salvin, T.c.vM.w.,.,, IToc /,o.,l, 

 Soc Lond 1877, 319 (Tumbez, Peru). 



i^Z;^:;./::).;L.TACZANJwsKi, Proc. ZOOL so. Y'^^'l^^^^^^^Zk 

 n. Peru); Cm. de Perou, i, 1884, 452 (Guadalupe, Tumbez, Lechugal, and 



Pacasmayo, Peru). 



POLIOPTILA SUPERCILIARIS SUPERCILIARIS Lawrence. 

 LAWRENCE'S GNATCATCHER. 



Similar to P. hnineata but decidedly smaller, with tail relatively 

 shorter feet weaker, and coloration nuich darker; j>niy ot buck, etc 

 dark bluish slate-gray, almost slate colm- white of under parts 

 strongly shaded laterally and across chest with pale bluish gra>. 



l^X^SLte-s type really represents this form or P. s.p.ral^.r. can only 

 be determined bv exau.ination of the type. My assumption that it probabl> belongs 



^^^:^ntl:::f^nd:;a;;;:!'^ speciinens it is of in,.ossible to .a>- .hich of the 



localities designated, if any, relate to the present lonn. 



