422 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



385. Heleodytes nuchalis (Cabanis). 



Campylorhynchus pardus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XXXVIII, 1854, 61, foot- 

 note ("New Granada"; nomen nudum). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon- 

 don, "1857," 1858, 271 ("Santa Marta " ; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist.; crit.).- — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1861, 17, footnote 

 ("Santa Marta"; ref. orig. descr.). — Gray, Hand-List Birds, I, 1869, 192 

 ("New Granada"). — Giebel, Thes. Orn., I, 1872, 563 (ref. orig. descr. 

 [error]). — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Avium Neotrop., 1873. 5 (range). — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., VI, 1881, 204, pi. 12, fig. 1 ("New Granada" 

 [i.e., "Santa Marta"]; descr.; references). 

 Heleodytes pardus Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, IV, 1903. 76 (range; syn.). — 

 Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 332 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 

 Heleodytes nuchalis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 180 



(Cienaga). 

 Heleodytes nuchalis nuchalis Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 

 1 9 l 7, S 11 ("Santa Marta"; crit.). 

 Four specimens : Tierra Nueva and Fonseca. 



Bonaparte named (but failed to describe) a supposed new wren from 

 "New Granada" in 1854, calling it Campylorhynchus pardus. Sclater 

 formally described the species under the same name a few years later, 

 his type being a bird in the Lawrence collection said to have come 

 from Santa Marta, whence Bonaparte's specimen had come also, ac- 

 cording to Sclater. The type-specimen in question, kindly loaned by 

 Dr. Chapman, agrees well in size and other characters with the above, 

 differing only in having the upper parts more broadly streaked with 

 white, and the buffy ochraceous wash on the nape more pronounced — ■ 

 doubtless owing to its fresher plumage. The plate in the Catalogue 

 of the Birds in the British Museum, possibly based on Bonaparte's 

 original specimen, is a very good representation indeed. Sharpe ex- 

 presses a doubt as to whether pardus is really distinct from nuchalis, 

 described from Venezuela by Cabanis in 1847. The Carnegie Museum 

 is fortunate in having a large series from that country, as well as ad- 

 ditional specimens of pardus from other parts of Colombia, affording 

 an ample basis for comparison. At first sight it would seem as if 

 pardus had more white on the rectrices, but there is a great deal of 

 individual variation in this respect in both series, so much, indeed, 

 that no valid separation could be maintained on such a ground, nor, 

 indeed, on any other character, since the spotting below and above is 

 precisely the same in both, making due allowance, of course, for the 

 effects of wear, which is marked in birds of this group. H. pardus 



