294 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



sea-level up to 5,000 feet on the San Lorenzo, but apparently wanting 

 in the central Sierra Nevada, no collector having ever found it there. 

 It has recently been detected, however, at Loma Larga, on the eastern 

 slope. It was most abundant in the forest at Don Diego and Funda- 

 cion, as a rule keeping high up in the trees, and usually in company 

 with other species. 



247. Cinclodes oreobates Scott. 



Cinclodes fuscus (not Anthus fuscus Vieillot) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., XV, 1890, 23 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta). 

 Cinclodes fuscus albidiventris (not of Sclater) Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. 



Washington, XIII, 1899, 98 (Paramo de Chiruqua ; crit.). — Allen, Bull. 



Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 159 (Bangs' reference). 

 Cinclodes oreobates Scott, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, X, 1900, 62 (Sierra 



Nevada de Santa Marta; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Brit. Mus.). — Sharpe, 



Hand-List Birds, III, 1901, 50 (range). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, II, 1903, 



1073 (ref. orig. descr.; range). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 



1912, 225 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 



Twenty-four specimens : Paramo de Mamarongo and Paramo de 

 Chiruqua. 



Simons took at least three specimens of a Cinclodes at some point 

 or points in the Sierra Nevada, as duly recorded by Sclater, who, how- 

 ever, " lumped " several very distinct forms under the name C. fuscus. 

 When Mr. Bangs came to identify the two specimens received from 

 Mr. Brown he referred them to C. albidiventris, but apparently with- 

 out having seen authentic examples of this form, which he considered 

 to be only conspecific with C. fuscus. It remained for the late W. 

 E. D. Scott to differentiate and name the Colombian form, which he 

 did in 1900, his description being based on the Santa Marta specimens 

 in the British Museum received from Simons. The description of the 

 posterior under parts as rufescent is inaccurate, however, for while in 

 some individuals these parts are shaded with buffy, in others they are 

 merely soiled white. C. albidiventris, as represented by specimens 

 from Mt. Pichincha, Ecuador, in the collection of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, is by comparison more rufescent 

 above than C. oreobates; the bill is shorter ; the under parts are tinged 

 with buffy, and the spotting on the throat and breast is less decided; 

 the cinnamomeous areas on the wings and tail are darker; and the 

 superciliaries are more decidedly buffy. Although the status and re- 



