Todd-Carriker: Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 173 

 74. Penelope colombiana Todd. (Plate II). 



Penelope argyrotis (not Pipile argyrotis Bonaparte) Sclater and Salvix. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, " 1870," 1S71, 528 ("Santa Marta")- — Bangs. Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Washington. XII, 1898, 132 ("Santa Marta"). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 126 (El Libano). 



Penelope colombiana Todd. Ann. Carnegie Mus., VIII, 1912, 213 (Las Taguas 

 [type-locality], Valparaiso, and Cincinnati ; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Car- 

 negie Mus.; meas. ; crit.). — Hellmayr and vox Seilern, Arch. f. Naturg., 

 LXXVIII, 1912, 162, footnote (Santa Marta [region]; ref. orig. descr.; 

 range). 



Additional records: Chirua (Brown). 



Twenty-five specimens: Valparaiso, Cincinnati, Las Taguas, Las 

 Vegas, San Lorenzo, and San Miguel. 



" This fine new species has heretofore been confused with Penelope 

 argyrotis (Bonaparte) of northern Venezuela, from which it is per- 

 fectly distinct, as shown by a comparison of specimens. In P. argy- 

 rotis 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. More- 

 over, the grayish white superciliary and malar stripes, so conspicuous 

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

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

 of the neck and mantle are more conspicuously edged (laterally) with 

 white, and the middle rectrices are decidedly more coppery, while all 

 are broadly tipped with chestnut, instead of narrowly tipped with 

 buffy rufous, as in argyrotis. The abdomen and tibia; are also de- 

 cidedly more rufescent than in the latter form. 



"Bonaparte's original description of Pipile argyrotis (Comptes 

 Rcndus dc V Academic des Sciences, XLII, 1856, 875) is very brief 

 and unsatisfactory, but the species was later identified by Messrs. 

 Sclater and Salvin (Proceedings Zoological Society of London, 1870, 

 528) from an examination of some of his authentic specimens. Mean- 

 while it had been given two other names, Penelope montana Reiche- 

 now (Taiibcn, 1862, 151, ex Lichtenstein, MS.), and Penelope licliten- 

 steinii Gray (Proceedings Zoological Society of London, i860, 269), 

 both based upon material from Venezuela." 



Contrary to the surmise advanced in the original account of this 

 species (quoted in part above), it proves to be peculiar to the Santa 



