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Specimens exwinined. — Venezuela: Aroa, 1; Lagunita de Aroa, 1; 

 Anzoategui, 1; El Trompillo, 2; Sierra de Carabobo, 11; Loma Re- 

 donda, 3 ; Guamito, 3 ; Tabay, 5 ; Merida, 5 ; La Azulita, 2 ; San Este- 

 ban, 2; Valle, Merida, 2; Escorial (3,000 m.), 4; Culata (3,000 m.), 

 2; El Liman (1,000 feet). Valley of Puerto La Cruz, 1; Macuto, 

 Caracas, 1 ; Caracas, 7 ; Lake Valencia, 2 ; Colon, Tachira, 1 ; unspeci- 

 fied, 1. Colombia : El Cauca, 8 ; La Palmita, 6 ; Yumbo, 1 ; Bucara- 

 manga, 1; Miraflores (6,800 feet), 1; Peque (5,000 feet), Antioquia, 1. 

 Total, 75. 



BASILEUTERUS CABANISI INDIGNUS Todd 



Basileutertis cabanisi (not of von Berlepsch) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 

 1880, p. 117 (Minca, Colombia). — von Berlepsch, Journ. f. Orn., vol. 32, 

 1884, p. 283, part (Salvin and Godman's record). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mas., vol. 10, 1885, p. 384 (Minca, Colombia; descr. ; refs. [part]). — 

 Baj^gs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 12, 1898, p. 144 (" Santa Marta," 

 Colombia ) .—Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 13, 1900, p. 176 

 (Minca, Las Nubes, and Onaca, Colombia). — Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 36, 1917, p. 551, part (Onaca, Colombia). — Hellmayb, 

 Arch. f. Naturg., vol. 90, A, 1924, p. 157, part (Don Amo and Onaca, Co- 

 lombia ; crit.). 



Basileuterus caMrmi indignus Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, 

 1916, p. 95 (La Tigrera, Colombia; orig. descr.; type in coll. Carnegie 

 Mus.). — Todd and Carkiker, Ann. Carnegie Mus.. vol. 14, 1922, pp. 54, 65, 

 78, 440 (Santa Marta localities and refs.; rang,-; habits; crit). 



SubspecifiG characters. — Similar to Basileuterus cabanisi cahanisi, 

 but coronal spot usually plain lemon yellow, with little or no Mars 

 yellow. 



Measurevvents. — Male (nine specimens) : Wing, 56-61 (average, 

 58) ; tail, 49-54 (52) ; bill, 9.5-10.5 (10) ; tarsus, 17.5-20 (18.3). Fe- 

 male (five specimens) : Wing, 53-55 (54) ; tail, 4^-51 (50) ; bill, 9.5- 

 10.5 (10) ; tarsus, 17.5-18.5 (18). 



Range. — Upper Tropical Zone, Santa Marta region of Colombia. 



Remarks. — This race rests upon a single character, namely, the 

 different color of the coronal spot. Out of 25 specimens examined 

 in the present connection, only 2 have more than a trace of Mars 

 yellow on the middle of the crown (No. 42,102, collection Carnegie 

 Museum, and No. 70,500, collection American Museum of Natural 

 History), while this color is well developed in all but a few of the 

 large series examined from Venezuela and the Colombian Andes. 

 These exceptions are nearly all females, and need not impugn the 

 validity of the race, as the individual variation is not excessive, and 

 is no more than would be expected, judging by analogy. Although 

 tlie propriety of separating the Santa Marta birds has been ques- 

 tioned in some quarters, on again going over the matter with a larger 

 series I can only reiterate my opinion that such action was justifiable. 



