Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 279 



Air. Brown failed to meet with this bird at all, and Mr. Smith se- 

 cured only a few specimens. The writer did not take it at any point 

 in the Sierra Nevada proper after leaving the coast. It was most 

 abundant at Don Diego, but was found sparingly in the woodland on 

 the west side of the Sierra Nevada, as well as in the foothills of the 

 San Lorenzo. It is confined to the Tropical Zone, running up oc- 

 casionally as high as 4,500 feet, but rarely above 2,500 feet. It is a 

 typical tree-oreeper, rather solitary in its habits, spending its time in 

 climbing in spirals up the trunk of a tree, and then flying to the foot 

 of another and repeating the performance. 



229. Xiphocolaptes procerus fortis Heine. 



Xiphocolaptes fortis Heine, Journ. f. Orn., VIII, i860, 185 (Cartagena or 

 Santa Marta [ ?] ; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Heine Mus.; crit.). — Ridg- 

 WAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XII, 1890, 19 (Santa Marta [?] ; reprint 

 orig. descr.). — -Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XV, 1S90, 142 (ref. orig. 

 descr.). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1900, 188 (ref. orig. descr.). — Sharpe, 

 Hand-List Birds, III, 1901, 82 (in list of species). — Brabourne and 

 Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 253 (ref. orig. descr.). 



Dcndrocolaptes fortis Gray, Hand-List Birds, I, 1869, 176 (in list of species). 

 — Giebel, Thes. Orn., II, 1875, 25 (ref. orig. descr.). 



Xiphocolaptes procerus (not of Cabanis and Heine) Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, XII, 1898, 177 (Macotama). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., XIII, 1900, 157 (Valparaiso, El Libano, San Lorenzo, and Las 

 Nubes). 



Xiphocolaptes promeropirhyiichus procerus Hellmayr and von Seilern. 

 Arch. f. Naturg., LXXVIII, 1912, m (Santa Marta [region], in range). 



Additional records: San Miguel, Chirua (Brown). 



Thirty-one specimens: Las Nubes, Valparaiso, Cincinnati, San Lor- 

 enzo, Cerro de Caracas, Las Taguas, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 

 (6,000 feet), Las Vegas, Paramo de Mamarongo, and Heights of 

 Chirua. 



The splendid series of Xiphocolaptes from Venezuela and Colombia 

 in the collection of the Carnegie Museum has made possible the eluci- 

 dation of the various forms inhabiting these regions with some degree 

 of finality. To begin with, we have twenty-six skins of X. promeropi- 

 rhyiichus, which, with its relatively short bill and more heavily streaked 

 under parts, may be regarded as specifically distinct. Of X. procerus 

 procerus, described from Caracas, Venezuela, we have twelve speci- 

 mens, including one from the type-locality. The Santa Marta speci- 



