Todd- Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 389 



Simons secured two specimens of this species in the Sierra Nevada, 

 as recorded by Sclater in the Catalogue of the Birds in the British 

 Museum. Mr. Brown took a series of eighteen specimens in the same 

 region, which were duly described by Mr. Bangs as a new species of 

 Myiopatis, its true position escaping notice up to 1912, when it was 

 indicated by Messrs. Hellmayr and von Seilern. 



On the San Lorenzo this flycatcher was seen only above 6,000 feet, 

 and was rare below 7,000 feet, and not common even above that point. 

 It is partial to open situations, the edges of the forest, and ridges 

 dotted with shrubbery. In the Sierra Nevada a few were seen as 

 low as 5,000 feet at San Miguel, but on the Cerro de Caracas and up 

 the Macotama Valley between 9,000 and 11,000 feet the bird was abun- 

 dant, frequenting the scattered shrubbery and the edge of the forest. 

 Mr. Brown took it on the Paramo de Chiruqua at 12,000 feet, and it is 

 essentially a species of the Temperate Zone, extending down into the 

 Subtropical at certain places where local conditions favor. 



354. Octhoeca diadema jesupi Allen. 



Octluvca jesupi Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 121, 151 (San 

 Lorenzo [type-locality], Valparaiso, and El Libano ; orig. descr. ; type in 

 coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.). — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, III, 1901, 93 (ref. 

 orig. descr.; range). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, II, 1903, 1075 (Santa Marta 

 [region], in range; ref. orig. descr.). — von Beelepsch, Ornis, XIV, 1907, 

 470 (crit.). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I. 1912, 263 (ref. orig. 

 descr. ; range). 



Octhtrca diadema jesupi Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XX, 1913, 242 (San Lorenzo; 

 crit.). 



Octluvca gratiosa jesupi Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 19 17, 

 430, in text (crit.). 



Nine specimens : San Lorenzo, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 



over our series with care. Six males from Venezuela average as follows : 

 wing, 68 ; tail, 66. Ten males from the Santa Marta region average : wing, 

 68 ; tail, 70. They differ, therefore, from Venezuelan birds in having the tail 

 slightly longer than the wing, instead of the reverse. A series of nine males 

 from the Eastern Andes measure: wing, jz; tail, 72. This latter series were 

 mostly taken in September and October; they are appreciably yellower below 

 and darker above than the Santa Marta birds, which were collected in March, 

 April, and July, but the few specimens which are comparable in season are 

 practically indistinguishable, and the same is true of the Venezuelan series 

 in relation to the others. Under these circumstances we feel that a good 

 case for recognizing more than one form has not yet been made out. 



