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Lake Maracaibo, and is probably restricted to the arid coast region of 

 the Goajira Peninsula, where it is one of the characteristic birds. 



Type, No. 45,649, Collection Carnegie Museum, adult female ; Rio 

 Hacha, Colombia, May 6, 1914; M. A. Carriker, Jr. 



170. Notharchus hyperrhynchus subsp. 

 Five specimens: Mamatoco and Fundacion. 



Dr. Chapman (Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, 

 XXXVI, 1917, 340) has recently called attention to the differences be- 

 tween Nicaragua specimens of this species on the one hand and those 

 from Panama southward on the other. He adopts for the latter the 

 name leucocrissus, and the writer has verified his conclusions after an 

 examination of the same material. Quite unexpectedly, Nicaraguan 

 skins, assumed to represent dysoni, prove to be appreciably different 

 from those from Costa Rica, which latter agree in all essential respects 

 with specimens from Panama, western Colombia, Ecuador, and Bo- 

 livia. Curiously enough, the Santa Marta specimens are clearly not 

 leucocrissus: they are in fact practically indistinguishable from dy- 

 soni, having the same narrow pectoral band and less heavily marked 

 flanks. The only difference is that the outer primary has less white 

 in the present series, but this by itself seems to be too trifling a char- 

 acter upon which to base a formal separation. To refer these birds to 

 dysoni, on the other hand, would leave the distribution of that form 

 discontinuous, so that for the present it seems necessary to hold the 

 matter open for further data. 



This bird was first met with at Fundacion, where four in all were 

 taken, and later a single specimen was shot at Mamatoco. It is not 

 at all common at the former locality, being found in the open wood- 

 land among the tangled masses of vines and low trees. 



Family GALBULID/E. Jacamars. 



171. Galbula ruficauda pallens Bangs. 



Gal bill a ruficauda (not of Cuvier) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 205 (Valle 

 de Upar) ; 1880, 175 (Santa Marta). — Sclater, Mon. Jacamars and Puff- 

 birds, 1879, 15 (Valle de Upar; meas.). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 XIX. 1891, 166 (Santa Marta and Valle de Upar). 



Galbula ruficauda pallens Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 

 133 ("Santa Marta"; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Mus. Comp. Zool. ; 

 crit.). — Dubois. Syn. Avium, II, 1903, 1056 (Santa Marta, in range; ref. 

 orig. descr.). 



