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be to unite these two groups or merge them both with Grallaria. We 

 prefer to take the latter course. 



The present series supports the characters assigned to the species, 

 and is fairly uniform, although there is a slight variation in the amount 

 of flammulation below. One specimen (May 25) shows slight rufes- 

 cent edgings and tipping to the wing-coverts — doubtless a sign of im- 

 maturity. 



This fine species was described from a single pair of birds forwarded 

 by Mr. Smith to the American Museum of Natural History, these, to- 

 gether with another pair received by the Carnegie Museum from the 

 same source (all taken on the slopes of the San Lorenzo), constituting 

 the only examples known to science for some years. The writer was 

 able to secure a series of twelve skins in July, 191 1, and March and 

 April, 1914. It is a bird of the Subtropical Zone, occurring on the 

 San Lorenzo in small numbers between 6,000 and 8,000 feet, and in 

 the Sierra Nevada between 4,000 and 6,000 feet. It is confined to the 

 heavy forest, where it prefers dense tangled undergrowth, and is en- 

 tirely terrestrial in its habits. Although very shy, the birds may be 

 "whistled up" like Formicarius analis virescens, but it takes greater 

 care and a quick finger on the trigger to get them. 



254. Grallaricula ferrugineipectus (Sclater). 



Conopophaga sp. Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 159 (Pueblo 



Viejo ; crit.). 

 Conopophaga brozvni Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIII, 1899, 100 



(Chirua ; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.). — Allen, Bull. 



Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 121, 161 (Bangs' reference). — Sharpe, 



Hand-List Birds, III, 1901, 9 (ref. orig. descr.; range). — Dubois. Syn. 



Avium, II, 1903, 1068 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 

 Grallaricula ferrugineipectus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 



159 (Las Nubes). — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, III, 1901, 45 ("Santa Marta," 



in range). — Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 191 1, 144 (diag. ; 



range; references). — Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XX, 1913, 248 (Chirua; syn.; 



crit.). 



Eleven specimens: Las Vegas, Cincinnati, and Pueblo Viejo. 



The first specimens of this bird received by Mr. Bangs were inad- 

 vertently described by him as a new species of Conopophaga, and it 

 was not until 191 1 that the mistake was discovered and corrected by 

 Mr. Ridgway, and a little later, independently, by Mr. Hellmayr. 

 There is absolutely no difference between the above specimens and a 



