416 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



This interesting little wren is peculiar to the Santa Marta region, 

 where it ranges from the upper part of the Tropical well into the Sub- 

 tropical Zone, or from 2,000 to 7,000 feet, although most abundant 

 between 4,000 and 6,000 feet. It is found only in heavy woodland, 

 having a preference for dark ravines and thickets, where there are 

 heaps of half rotted branches of fallen trees. It always keeps near 

 the ground, and like many others of this family is very inquisitive and 

 noisy, having a call-note, an alarm-note, and a beautiful whistling 

 song of clear liquid notes. The nest is a domed-over structure, placed 

 either on the tip of a horizontal limb or in a tangle of roots under 

 an overhanging bank. Like certain other species of wrens it builds 

 many false nests, which are always placed in conspicuous positions, 

 while the real nest is most cunningly hidden away. The eggs are 

 white, and vary from two to four in number, but are usually three. 



380. Henicorhina leucophrys anachoreta Bangs. 



Henicorhina anachoreta Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, I, 1899, 84 

 (Paramo de Chiruqua; orig. descr. ; type now in Mus. Comp. Zool. ; meas.). 

 — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 121, 180 (Bangs' reference). 

 — Hellmayr, Journ. f. Orn., LI, 1903, 530, in text, 531 (Sierra Nevada de 

 Santa Marta; crit.). — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, IV, 1903. 95 (ref. orig. 

 descr. ; range). 



Henicorhina hilaris anachoreta Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, III, 

 1904, 609 (diag. ; range; ref. orig. descr.). 



Eight specimens : San Lorenzo, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 

 (6,000 and 8,000 feet), San Miguel, Macotama, and Paramo de Mama- 

 rongo. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Bangs these have been compared di- 

 rectly with two specimens from the type-series. The latter are paler 

 brown above and on the flanks than most of the above, and the tail is 

 also paler brown, but otherwise they agree well enough. The present 

 form differs conspicuously from H. hilaris bangsi of lower altitudes 

 in its shorter bill, grayer throat and breast (with the former more or 

 less streaked with black), paler, less rufescent, more russet shade of 

 the upper parts, tail, and flanks, and in particular in the greater ex- 

 tent of this brown color on the posterior under surface. It is clearly 

 an offshoot of the H. leucophrys group as defined by Mr. Ridgway, 

 being in fact most nearly related to H. leucophrys guttata (Hartlaub) 

 of central and western Colombia, as already indicated by Mr. Hell- 



