290 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



wherever forest is found between these limits, but does not seem to 

 be abundant in any section visited. Like many other of the smaller 

 species of this family, it is accustomed to hop about among the 

 branches a great deal, instead of merely climbing. It is also fond of 

 feeding among the bromelias which are so common at this elevation. 



242. Asthenes wyatti wyatti (Sclater and Salvin). 



Synallaxis wyatti Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 170 (Sierra Nevada de 



Santa Marta, 10,000—12,800 ft.). — Berlepsch and Taczanowski, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. London, 1884, 299 ("Santa Marta"; crit). 

 Siptornis zvyatti Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 71 (Sierra 



Nevada de Santa Marta). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIII, 



1899, 99 (Paramo de Chiruqua). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 



1900, 158 (Salvin and Godman's and Bangs' references). 



Cranioleuca wyatti Cory, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXXII, 1919, 151, iS7 



diag. ; range). 

 Siptornis wyatti wyatti Chapman, Am. Mus. Nov., No. iS, 1921, 4 (Paramo 



de Chiruqua ; crit.). 



Twenty-six specimens : Cerro de Caracas, Macotama, Paramo de 

 Mamarongo, and Paramo de Chiruqua. 



The type of this species came from the Paramo of Pamplona in the 

 Eastern Andes of Colombia, a region from which no other specimens 

 are yet available for comparison. Salvin and Godman ascribe the differ- 

 ence between their Santa Marta skins and the type to variation in age, 

 but Dr. Chapman reports that they are " essentially identical." Ac- 

 cording to von Berlepsch and Taczanowski, Ecuador specimens are 

 different, and they have recently been given a name. In anv case, it is 

 certainly a mistake to describe the lower parts as " pale ochraceous," 

 when they are really pale buffy brown. Considerable variation is shown 

 by this series in the color of the throat, which in some specimens is 

 nearly white, and in others rich orange rufous. No. 45,275, April 10, 

 is in juvenal dress, with short bill and tail ; it is like the adult above, but 

 a little more buffy below, the breast with indistinct narrow dusky bars. 



This is essentially a species peculiar to the Paramo Zone, being 

 found regularly on all the paramos from 10,000 to 15,500 feet, al- 

 though straggling down to 8,000 feet, as proven by one specimen taken 

 in the valley just above the village of Macotama. Simons secured a 

 few specimens at these altitudes, and Mr. Brown took a pair on the 

 Paramo de Chiruqua at 15,000 feet. It is in fact perhaps the com- 



