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guarumos above the lower forest growth. They have heavy bodies 

 and short legs so that they rest with the feathers of the abdomen 

 touching the perch, where they sit quietly with the neck drawn in, 

 turning the head about. The extraordinarily slender, pointed bill 

 appears almost as long as the body. As insects pass they fly out 

 to seize them expertly in the air, and then return to the original 

 perch. A juvenile female, with the bill only 31 mm. long was taken 

 with an adult of the same sex at Pucro on February 7. Both had 

 eaten small black bees. The stomach of one from Cana held frag- 

 ments of small beetles, moths, and a wasp. 

 I have seen no record of the nest and eggs. 



Figure 55. — Salmon's jacamar, barranquero chico, Brachygalba salmoni. 



The species ranges in Colombia in northern Antioquia, Cordoba, 

 and Bolivar. The most recent specimen records for Colombia are 

 those of Dr. Jiirgen Haffer, who collected male and female on the Rio 

 Guasdalito, a short distance south of Turbo, Antioquia, during 

 geological studies in that area in 1958 and 1959 (Lozania, no. 12. 

 December 21, 1959, p. 28). Later, in 1960 and 1961, he and Donald 

 Beattie secured others on the slopes of the Serrania de San Jeronimo, 

 west of El Carmen, northern Bolivar. From 3 males, 4 females and 

 1 juvenile bird taken there Haffer (Journ. f. Orn., vol. 103, no. 1, 

 March 31, 1962, pp. 41, 43, fig. 4) named a new race Brachygalba 

 salmoni carmcnensis (type locality, upper Arroyo Camaroncito, 250 

 meters elevation, 20 kilometers west of El Carmen, Department of 

 Bolivar; type adult female collected September 15, 1960, no. 6111, 

 Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia;. 



