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their rise in the " tierra fria," are well adapted to the habits of 

 this little Dipper. We shot a pair of these birds by the stream 

 near Vetas, just under the paramo. Altitude 9500 feet. We 

 saw others by another stream near Matisgua. As we were 

 making our way from Bucaramanga to the paramo, W. caught 

 sight of what appeared to be another species of Dipper, a dai'ker 

 bird, in the stream near the road. 



7. DONACOBIUS ATRICAPILLUS. 



Common among the reeds by the side of Lake Paturia. 



" 8. Heliodytes griseus. 

 A common species in the Mimosa thicket at Santa Marta. 

 We found a pair building their nest high up in a gigantic Cac- 

 tus, December 29th. We did not meet with it elsewhere. Iris 

 white. 



9. Campylorhynchus parous*. 



We shot a pair of these birds in some scrub and underwood 

 at Catamucho. It is smaller than the following species ; but 

 the markings are larger, of a deeper brown, and more defined. 



10. Campylorhynchus zonatoides. 



Our single specimen of this species was obtained near Na- 

 ranjo, where the forest was being cleared, and there was a great 

 quantity ©f decayed timber, amongst which the bird was creep- 

 ing about. 



11. Thryothorus LEUCOTis, Lafr. T. albipectus, Cah. : Scl. 

 Cat. p. 20. 



This bird we shot at Catamucho. 



• 12. Troglodytes xEssELLATUsf. 

 Unfortunately we only brought home one specimen of this 

 little Wren, which we shot at an altitude of 9000 feet on the 

 Pamplona road. It was a cock bird ; and had it not been singing, 

 I should have taken it for a young one of the preceding species. 

 I was, in fact, not aware until I was in England that the two 



* [CAMPYLOEnYNCHUS PAEDUS, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 271. 



Mr. Wyatt's specimen agrees with Sclater's type. — P. L. S. & 0. S.] 



t [Teoglodytes tessellatus, Lafr. & D'Oib. 



See Salvin's remarks on this Wren, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 135.— P. L. S. & 0. S.] 



