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Penelope colombiana sp. nov. 



Type, No. 37,840, Collection Carnegie Museum, adull male; Las 

 raguas (near Santa Marta), Colombia, June 27, 1911; M. A. Car- 

 riker, Jr. 



Description. — General color of upper parts dark glossy olive, 



inclining to bronzy on the scapulars, each feather laterally edged with 



white or huffy white; rump and upper tail-coverts chestnut, faintly 



mottled with darker color; primaries and their coverts dusky olive, 



externally margined with gray; secondaries and their coverts bronzy 



olive, the lesser and median coverts laterally edged with whitish like 



the feathers of the back, and the greater coverts edged externally 



witli wood-brown; elongated feathers of crown and nape dusky olive, 



margined with grayish white; no conspicuous superciliary or malar 



stripes, hut this latter region dusky gray; throat naked (scarlet in 



life); breast dark glossy olive, becoming bronzy posteriorly, each 



feather laterally margined with white; abdomen more rusty, deepening 



into chestnut on the tibiae and under tail-coverts, which are obscurely 



barred with dusky; under wing-coverts dusky olive; tail dark glossy 



olive above, dusky below, the middle rectrices coppery bronze, and 



all broadly tipped with chestnut, usually with faint dusky vermicu- 



lations; "bill blackish horn; iris brown; feet salmon-red" or "scarlet 



salmon." 



Measurements. 



Exp. 



X". Sex. Locality. Date. Wing. Tail. Cul. Tar. 



8766 o" 1 Valparaiso March 10, 1899. .. 257 285 29 60 



8767 9 Valparaiso March 13, 1899. . .253 254 29 56 



37698 9 Cincinnati June 8,1911... 244 234 28 52 



37840 C? Las Taguas June 27, 1911 . . .273 280 30 59 



Remarks. — This fine new species has heretofore been confused with 

 Penelope argyrosis (Bonaparte) of northern Venezuela, from which 

 it is perfectly distinct, as shown by a comparison of specimens. In 

 P. argyrotis the feathers of the crest are much broader, blunter, and 

 browner, and only those growing on the forehead are margined with 

 grayish white, while in the new species these feathers are linear and 

 acuminate, and all margined with grayish white for their entire length. 

 Moreover, the grayish white superciliary and malar stripes, so con- 

 spicuous in P. argyrotis, are entirely wanting in P. colombiana, these 

 parts being almost the same as the crown. In the latter, also, the 



