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discrepancies, affecting in some cases the same species as are referred 

 to by Dr. Allen, and suggests that the identifications must be received 

 with caution, and discarded entirely where they fail to agree with 

 facts already known. Nevertheless, with this understanding, we con- 

 sider that these descriptions are of sufficient value as a contribution 

 to the life-history of the species in question to quote them at greater 

 or less length, and we have added some new ones taken from material 

 in the Carnegie Museum. 



The University of Michigan Expedition. — This expedition, as we 

 learn from the Director's "Annual Report" for 1913-14, "had for 

 its object the exploration of the western end of the Sierra Nevada de 

 Santa Marta and the adjacent lowlands, in Colombia. The party con- 

 sisted of the Director [Prof. Alexander G. Ruthven], F. M. Gaige, 

 Scientific Assistant in Charge of Entomology, and Dr. A. S. Pearse 

 of the University of Wisconsin, Honorary Curator of Crustacea. The 

 expedition arrived at Santa Marta on July 1 [1913], and at once pro- 

 ceeded to the plantation of the Cincinnati Coffee Company, at an ele- 

 vation of 4,500 feet on the Mountain of San Lorenzo. From this 

 base a strip was carefully explored between 2,200 feet and the sum- 

 mit at 8,300 feet, 26 days being devoted to the work. On July 27 the 

 party moved to the foot of the range and continued the explored 

 strip from 2,200 feet to the plain, and on August 6 went to Fundacion 

 on the extreme western end of the range. Investigations were carried 

 on at this place for fourteen days, and then about Santa Marta, Gaira, 

 and on the Salamanca Coast near Cienaga until September 1, when 

 the party left the field." 



Birds were merely a secondary object of this expedition, which gave 

 more attention to other groups, and to ecological studies. Neverthe- 

 less one hundred and forty-nine specimens were secured, mostly by 

 Mr. Gaige. These were all deposited in the U. S. National Museum, 

 where they now are. New locality records based on this collection 

 are duly listed in the present paper. 



The Ujhclyi Collections. — Specimens collected by Mr. J. Ujhelyi, 

 bearing such locality labels as Aracataca and " Tagua " (Las Taguas), 

 have found their way to the National Hungarian Museum at Budapest, 

 and a few new forms have been described from this material by Dr. 

 von Madarasz. This material comprised about one hundred and fifty 

 skins (more or less), and was collected late in 191 1 and early in 1912. 



