402 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Robin, but is softer and sweeter in tone. It is shy and hard to ap- 

 proach, concealing itself in a tree-top when singing. 



A nest with one egg sent in by Mr. Smith is labelled Valparaiso, 

 May 29. The nest is composed almost wholly of moss, lined with 

 fine wiry rootlets, and the egg bears a striking resemblance to that of 

 the Olive-backed Thrush (Hylociclila ustulata szvainsoni). A second 

 nest with eggs was taken by the writer on his plantation " Vista 

 Nieve," near Cincinnati, on May 5, 1916, by the roadside in the forest. 

 It is of the usual thrush construction — a little mud in the bottom, and 

 then a few leaves and vegetable fibers, the main body, however, being 

 composed of green moss, lined with fine blackish rootlets and plant- 

 fibers, mixed with moss. The eggs resemble those of Turdus pliccopy- 

 gus phccopygus, but are larger and more heavily marked. 



366. Semimerula cacozela (Bangs). 



Tardus gigas (not of Fraser) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 198 (San 

 Sebastian ; crit.). 



Merula gigas cacozela Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 181 

 (Macotama; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Mus. Comp. Zool. ; meas. ; crit.) ; 

 XIII, 1899, 107 (San Miguel, Paramo de Chiruqua, and Paramo de Maco- 

 tama). — Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, I, 1899, 80 (San Sebastian 

 and El Mamon). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 121, 181 

 (Salvin and Godman's and Bangs' references). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 

 1901, 398 (Santa Marta, in range; ref. orig. descr.). 



Turdus cacozela von Beklepsch, Orn. Monatsber., X, 1902, 71, in text (crit.). 



Semimerula cacozela Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, IV, 1903, 130 (ref. orig. 

 descr.; range). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1^12, 347 (ref. 

 orig. descr.; range). 



Merula cacozela Seebohm and Sharpe, Mon. Turdidie, II, 1902, 61 (Santa 

 Marta references and localities; descr.; crit.). 



Turdus fuscater cacozela Hellmayr, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XVI, 1906., 92 

 (range). 



Planesticus fuscater cacozelus Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XXVIII, 1921, 234 

 (San Miguel and Paramo de Chiruqua; crit.). 



Twenty-three specimens: San Lorenzo, San Miguel, Cerro de Cara- 

 cas, and Paramo de Chiruqua. 



The first specimen of the Giant Thrush of the Santa Marta region 

 was taken at San Sebastian, at an altitude of 6,700 feet in the Sierra 

 Nevada, by Simons. Later on he secured two other specimens at 9,000 

 feet, as we are told by Sharpe. " Messrs. Salvin and Godman re- 

 marked on the paler colour of the Santa Marta specimens, but did not 



