Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 251 



partial albino, the wings, most of the tail, and some of the feathers of 

 the back being white, the two former much worn. 



The most abundant and generally distributed hummingbird of the 

 higher altitudes of this region, to which it is strictly confined, rang- 

 ing through the Subtropical and Temperate Zones. It is abundant on 

 the open summit of the San Lorenzo as well as in the forest down to 

 5,500 feet, and occurs down as low as Cincinnati (4,500 feet). In 

 the Sierra Nevada Mr. Brown reported it from Pueblo Viejo, but the 

 writer did not meet with it so low as that. The lowest point was the 

 Heights of Chirua at about 4,000 feet elevation, from which it ranges 

 upward to the limit of the forest, probably about 11,000 feet. It is a 

 very tame, rather sluggish little bird, and often hangs on by the feet 

 to the flower from which it is feeding upon insects and nectar. It has 

 a curious little song, often heard when the bird is at rest on a twig in 

 the shrubbery. 



197. Ramphomicron dorsale Salvin and Godman. 



Rhamphomicron dorsale Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 172, pi. 5, figs. 1-2 

 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Brit. Mus. ; 

 crit. ; habits). — Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. f. Orn., XXVIII, 1880, 

 317 (reprint orig. descr.). — SHARr-E, in Gould's Mon. Trochilidas, Supple- 

 ment, 1883, pi. [43] and text (descr. and range, ex Salvin and Godman). — 

 von Berlepsch, Journ. f. Orn., XXXV, 1887, 336 (Santa Marta [region], 

 ex Salvin and Godman). — Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.. XVI, 1892, 343 

 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; descr.; references). — Simon, Cat. Fam. 

 Trochilides, 1897, 35 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in range). — Simon, 

 Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, (3), XXVIII, 1898, 44 (Sierra Nevada de 

 Santa Marta, in range). — Bangs. Auk, XVI, 1899, 138 (Salvin and God- 

 man's record). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIII, 1899, 94 (Par- 

 amo de Chiruqua and La Concepcion ; plum.). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., XIII, 1900, 120, 137 (Salvin and Godman's and Bangs' references). — 

 Dubois, Syn. Avium. I, 1900, 15S (ref. orig. descr.; range). — Cory, Field 

 Mus. Zool. Series, XIII, 1918, 275 (references; range). 



Ramphomicron dorsale Boucard, Humming Bird, II, 1892, 75 (Sierra Nevada 

 de Santa Marta, in range; ref. orig. descr.). — -Boucard, Gen. Humming 

 Birds, 1895, 86 (references; descr.; range). 



Rhamphoinicrum dorsale Hartert, Tierreich. Lief. 9, 1900, 171 (references; 

 descr.; range). — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, II, 1900, 134 (Sierra Nevada de 

 Santa Marta, in range). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912. 

 140 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 



Rhamphomicrus dorsalis Simon, Cat. Fam. Trochilidae. 1921, 199 (descr.), 380 

 (references; range). 



