Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 343 



This large flycatcher occurs sparingly in the lowlands contiguous 

 to Santa Marta and in the lower foothills, where it is confined to the 

 woodland along streams and irrigated land. Only a few were noted 

 at Tucurinca and Fundacion, and none at all on the north coast or in 

 the Sierra Nevada, although Mr. Brown got one from Palomina, and 

 Simons secured a specimen at Atanquez, on the south slope of that 

 range, while the writer found it at Valencia. Here, as elsewhere 

 throughout its extensive range, it is a characteristic hird of the Trop- 

 ical Zone. 



295. Myiodynastes chrysocephalus intermedius Chapman. 

 Myiodynastes chrysocephalus (not Scaphorhynchus chrysocephalus Tschudi) 



Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1S98, 15S (Pueblo Viejo), 176 



(San Francisco). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 146 (El 



Libano, Valparaiso, and Las Nubes). 

 Myiodynastes chrysocephalus chrysocephalus Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VIII, 



1912, 209, in text (Santa Marta region; crit.). 

 Myiodynastes chrysocephalus intermedius Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 



Hist., XXXI, 1912, 152 (Las Nubes; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Am. Mus. 



Nat. Hist.). — Apolinar Maria, Bol. Soc. Cien. Nat. Inst. La Salle, II, 1914, 



245 (ref. orig. descr.). — Hellmayr, Arch. f. Naturg., LXXXV, A, 1920, 57 



(ref. orig. descr.; crit.). 



Additional records: La Concepcion (Brown). 



Fourteen specimens: Las Nubes, El Libano, Cincinnati, Chirua, and 

 Heights of Chirua. 



The present writer was the first to call attention to the peculiarities 

 of Santa Marta specimens of Myiodynastes chrysocephalus, suggest- 

 ing that they would eventually prove to be separable from the typical 

 Peruvian birds, and this surmise was verified a few months later by 

 Dr. Chapman upon comparison of suitable material. A little later 

 still in the same year (1912) Messrs. Hellmayr and von Seilern in- 

 dependently came to the same conclusion as regards birds from north- 

 ern Venezuela (Archiv fur Naturgeschichtc, LXXVIII, 1912, 82). 

 Birds from the two regions, as shown by a good series in the Carn°g r e 

 Museum, are absolutely indistinguishable from each other, and the 

 latter authors' name icneznclanus will therefore fall as a pure synonym 

 of intermedins, which has a few months' priority, although it may be 

 well to remark that in case the unique type of M. chrysocephalus cine- 

 rascens should prove to be merely an abnormally colored spe:imen of 

 the present form that name would naturally have precedence. 



