Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 341 



from Venezuela and French Guiana, but in the absence of any other 

 characters we cannot see our way clear to recognizing a northern form 

 of the species, as recently proposed by Messrs. Bangs and Penard 

 (Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology, LXII, 1918, 78). 



A species of wide distribution in the Tropical Zone of South Amer- 

 ica. Mr. Smith sent in a single specimen, said to have come from 

 Cacagualito, but according to the writer's experience it is found only 

 near sea-level, and invariably along the shores of some stream or 

 marsh, often perching over the water. Those met with at Fundacion 

 were all out in the marsh, while at Trojas de Cataca they were out 

 over the river. The usual note is weak and rather melancholy, re- 

 sembling that of the species of Myiocetctes. 



293. Pitangus sulphuratus rufipennis (Lafresnaye). 



Pitangits derbianus (not Saurophagus derbianus Kaup) Salvin and Godman, 

 Ibis, 1879, 201 (Valle de Upar ; crit.). 



Pitangus derbianus rufipennis Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 175 

 (Santa Marta and Valle de Upar). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 VI, 1894, 41, in text ("Santa Marta"). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, XII, 1898, 137 ("Santa Marta"). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., XIII, 1900, 146 (Bonda and Santa Marta). 



Megarhynchus pitangus (not Lauius pitangua Linnaeus) Allen, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., XXI, 1905, 283 (Bonda; descr. nest and eggs). 



Pitangus sulphuratus rufipennis Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XIII, 1906, 24 (Santa 

 Marta, in range). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIII, 19 14, 

 179, in text (Santa Marta; crit.). 



Additional records: Fundacion (Univ. Mich. Exp.); Santa Marta 

 (Carriker). 



Nineteen specimens : Bonda, Mamatoco, Tucurinca, Gaira, Dibulla, 

 and Rio Hacha. 



These are not distinguishable in any way from specimens from near 

 the type-locality (Caracas, Venezuela). 



This large handsome flycatcher occurs throughout the whole of the 

 littoral section, excepting only the more humid part of the northeast 

 coast, and ranges through the valley east of the mountains also. It is 

 an abundant bird in the irrigated lands around Santa Marta and 

 Mamatoco, and very conspicuous too, with its bright colors and loud 

 pugnacious call-note, which resembles closely the French words 

 '' qu'est-ce qu'il dit," 



According to Mr. Cherrie (Museum of the Brooklyn Institute Set- 



