370 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



329. Phaeomyias tenuirostris (Cory). 



Ornithion pusillum (not Myiopatis pusilla Cabanis and Heine) Allen, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 148, part (" Bonda " {.i.e., Cienaga]). 



Seventeen specimens : Gaira, Dibulla, and Rio Hacha. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Cory we have been able to compare 

 the above specimens, together with a small series from Venezuela, 

 with the type of his Camptostoma pusillum tenuirostris (sic), de- 

 scribed in the Field Museum Ornithological Series, I, 1913, 289, and 

 find them absolutely identical. But this bird cannot be a subspecies of 

 Camptostoma pusillum, the bill being so very different, and it seems 

 to be referable instead to the genus Phcromyias. Possibly it may have 

 been already described under some other name, but if so we fail to 

 find it. 



A Tropical Zone species, found sparingly in the semi-arid lowlands 

 contiguous to Santa Marta, but more abundantly in the humid forest 

 area of the northeast coast, and also, strange to say, around Rio 

 Hacha and Loma Larga. It was not met with on the west side of 

 the Sierra Nevada, nor is there any record for the foothills. Mr. 

 Smith sent in a single specimen (No. 73,571, Collection American 

 Museum of Natural History, Cienaga, September 10, 1898), which was 

 inadvertently recorded by Dr. Allen as " Ornithion " pusillum. Its 

 local habitat is open woodland, roadsides, and shrubbery in general. 



330. Microtriccus brunneicapillus dilutus Todd. 



Eleven specimens : La Tigrera, Don Diego, and Dibulla. 



The type of this supposed race, described by the writer a few years 

 ago (Proceedings Biological Society of Washington, XXVI, 1913, 

 171), came from the north coast of Venezuela. It differs from all 

 the Central American specimens so far examined in its paler, duller 

 coloration, especially below, with less greenish shading on the sides, 

 but there is nothing to show that a series from this locality would be 

 exactly the same. The Santa Marta series are nearer the Venezuelan 

 skin, although varying somewhat among themselves. The subspecies 

 is not strongly marked, but may be allowed to stand, at least pro- 

 visionally. 



No. 44,732 (Dibulla, February 24) is in juvenal dress — white be- 

 low, faintly tinged with buffy yellowish, the pileum grayish brown, 

 passing into olivaceous green on the back, and the remiges and rec- 

 trices edged externally with buffy- 



