NOTES ON GUAJTEMiALAN BIRDS^ — WETMOIRE 581 



white in the tail as they flush to their habit of flying up from the 

 ground into the woods to rest in trees when alarmed. They ranged 

 in little flocks along the borders of heavy woods and at the house 

 came familiarly into the garden to feed on strawberries or walk about 

 on the floor of the verandah where I could watch them from the win- 

 dows. Fallen treetops furnished a cover to which they were partial, 

 and from these they flew up to hide motionless in the dense cover of 

 cypress and pines. At Desconsuelo on November 24 they were com- 

 mon in fairly open woodland at 10,200 feet, and on open grassy slopes 

 300 feet higher I found them in pairs and little groups in low bushes 

 beneath scattered deciduous trees. Here they flew up into the tree- 

 tops to hide among the abundant parasitic plants that lined the 

 limbs. On this same day at Maria Tecum, on the slopes below the 

 great sacred rock of the Indians, juncos were present in the weeds 

 and low bushes in dozens, being far more abundant here than at any 

 other spot that I visited. They also came familiarly about the 

 ranchos of the Indians, entering deserted houses without fear. 



All were in excellent plumage at this season, and six skins were 

 prepared. Whether this bird is to be treated as a geographic race 

 of Junco phaeorvotus is a matter still for decision. 



The iris in Jmxco alticola is deep golden-yellow. 



ZONOTRICHIA CAPENSIS SEPTENTRIONALIS Griscom 



Zonotrichia capensis sepfentrionalis Gkiscom. Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 438, Dec. 15, 

 1930, p. 12 (Cliichicastenango, Guatemala). 



Specimens were taken near Chimaltenango on November 7, Pana- 

 jachel on November 14, and Chichivac above Tecpam on November 

 26. I saw several on Volcan de Agua above Santa Maria de Jesus 

 on October 31. 



On my first evening in Antigua, looking at the patio in front of my 

 room with its single towering cypress and its clumps of bushes, I 

 hoped for a ^^chmgolo^'' and in the morning I awakened to its famil- 

 iar, sweetly plaintive song, a pleasure that came almost daily during 

 my stay. Here in Guatemala the birds were known as coronadas or 

 coronalitas. 



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