Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 423 



(Sclater) will therefore fall as a synonym of H. nuchalis (Cabanis), 

 the range of which extends from the lower Orinoco along the northern 

 coast region of Venezuela into Colombia. 



This bird was not uncommon along the Aracataca River some six or 

 eight miles above its mouth. Three specimens were secured at this 

 point, and more could easily have been taken, had they not been thought 

 to be H. curvirostris at the time. It proved to be abundant also in the 

 flood-plain forest of the Rio Rancheria at Fonseca in July, 1920. In 

 habits it resembles that species. Mr. Smith's collector secured one at 

 Cienaga, and it doubtless ranges over the lower Magdalena basin in the 

 littoral Tropical Zone, not reaching as far east as the edge of the 

 foothills. 



386. Heleodytes curvirostris (Ridgway). 



Campylorhynchus curvirostris Ridgway, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XXIII, 



1888, 385 ("New Granada"; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Mus. Comp. 



Z06I. ; ex Lafresnaye, MS.). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1901, 420 (ref. orig. 



descr. ; range). 

 Heleodytes curvirostris Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, IV, 1903, 75 (ref. orig. 



descr.; range). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 331 (ref. 



orig. descr.; range). 



Twenty-eight specimens : Fundacion, Tucurinca, and Valencia. 



This species was described by Mr. Ridgway from a single mounted 

 specimen in the Lafresnaye collection ( now deposited in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Massachusetts), and in the 

 thirty years which have elapsed, to the best of the writer's knowl- 

 edge and belief, no other examples have come to hand except those of 

 the above series, here recorded for the first time. These have been 

 compared with the type in question, and found to agree well, due allow- 

 ance being made for the faded condition of the latter, the size being the 

 same, also the spotting beneath. The under surface in the type is 

 paler, and the wings and tail browner, although both these parts show 

 the same buffy tinge so characteristic of the present form. Compared 

 with skins of H. conatus brcvirostris in the collection of the American 

 Museum of Natural History from the Magdalena River, the present 

 form differs in its smaller size, and in having the throat and breast 

 more decidedly tinged with buffy, while the under tail-coverts are much 

 richer ochraceous, the tail, wings, and upper tail-coverts more de- 

 cidedly buffy or ochraceous (wanting in brcvirostris), and the pileum 



