414 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



examine it in this connection, it is scarcely likely that it will prove to 

 be anything more than a freak or off-colored example of the ordinary 

 race of rufalbits inhabiting Colombia. The evidence on this point is 

 made practically conclusive by reason of the circumstance that a series 

 of specimens is now available from the same general region whence 

 came von Berlepsch's type, and these are precisely like Santa Marts 

 and Venezuelan skins. Under these circumstances we accept the name 

 minlosi in place of cumanensis. 



Three young birds with more or less squamate under parts are dated 

 January 22, June 24, and August 8. 



This is strictly a bird of the Tropical Zone, being found from the 

 coast up to 2.500 feet, but more abundant between 500 and 1,500 feet, 

 although wherever the forest extends lower, as at Don Diego and 

 Fundacion, it is common lower down. It was noted at Valencia, in 

 the Rio Cesar Valley, but was rare. It is curious to note that while 

 T. albipcctus venezuelanus and T. Icucotis Icucotis are found almost 

 exclusively in the flats running back from sea-level, this species is 

 rarely found there, but instead occurs along the little valleys of the 

 foothills, being especially partial to the small tangled flats or " vegas " 

 in the bends of the creeks. It is not so shy as most wrens, is easily 

 " squeaked up," and oftener comes out into the open. The song is loud 

 and clear, and of very deep, pure, liquid notes, which have a bell-like 

 quality or timbre. The nest is domed over, and the eggs are white, 

 faintly speckled with reddish brown. 



379. Henicorhina hilaris bangsi Ridgway. 



Henicorhina leucophrys (not Troglodytes leucophrys Tschudi) Bangs, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 160 (Pueblo Viejo), 181 (San Francisco, 

 Palomina, and San Miguel). — Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, I, 

 1899, 83, 84 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, up to 8,000 ft.; descr. ; meas.). 

 — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 180 (Valparaiso and El 

 Libano). 



Henicorhina hilaris (not of von Berlepsch and Taczanowski) Hellmayr, 

 Journ. f. Orn., LI, 1903, 531 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; crit.). 



Henicorhina hilaris bangsi Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XVI, 1903, 

 168 (San Francisco; orig. descr.; type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Ridgway, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., .No. 50, III, 1904, 610 (diag. ; range; ref. ; crit.). — 

 Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXI, 1905, 278 (ref. orig. descr.; syn.), 

 293 (Valparaiso; descr. nest). 



Henicorhina bangsi Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 339 (ref. 

 orig. descr.; range). 



