424 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



tinged with brownish. In juvenal dress, illustrated by three examples 

 dated August 8, September 15, and September 21, the markings on the 

 back tend to streaks rather than bars, and the under parts are nearly 

 immaculate, the throat and breast being slightly squamate from dusky 

 tips to the feathers, and the bars on the flanks faintly indicated. 



The exact locality whence came the type-specimen of this species is 

 not known. It proved to be a common bird in the vicinity of Funda- 

 cion and Tucurinca, in the littoral Tropical Zone, and was taken also 

 at Valencia, in the Rio Cesar Valley. It is partial to open woodland, 

 where there are scattered large trees with much brush beneath, and is 

 always found in pairs or families, climbing about the trunks and 

 branches of the trees, chattering, scolding, and quarreling almost as 

 noisily as a flock of paroquets. The nest is similar to that of H. minor 

 albicilius, being domed over, with a tunnel-like approach six to eight 

 inches long, and is built of straws, weed-stalks, and rubbish, the whole 

 presenting a most untidy appearance, an effect perhaps sought by the 

 birds in order to divert attention from it. The nests examined had 

 no eggs as yet. 



387. Heleodytes minor albicilius (Bonaparte). 



Buglodytes albicilius Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XXXVIII, 1854, 57, footnote 



("Santa Marta " ; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Paris Mus. [?]). — Sclater, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1856, 97 ("Santa Marta"; crit.). — Giebel, Thes. 



Orn., I, 1872, 504 ("Santa Marta"; ref. orig. descr.). 

 Heleodytes griseus (not Furnarius griseus Swainson) Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 115, 



321 (Santa Marta; nesting). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 



1900, 180 (Santa Marta, Cacagualito, and Bonda ; plum.); XXI, 1905, 294 



(Bonda; descr. nest and eggs). 

 Campylorhynchus griseus Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 116 (Santa Marta; 



habits; crit.). 

 Heleodytes albicilius Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, IV, 1903, 72 (Santa Marta, 



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



descr.; range). 

 Heleodytes minor? (not of Cabanis) Cherrie, Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Sci. Bull., 



II, 191 6, 145 (Santa Marta region; crit.). 



Fifteen specimens: Bonda, Mamatoco, Fundacion, Dibulla, Rio 

 Hacha, and Tucurinca. 



The history of this bird goes back to 1854, when Bonaparte de- 

 scribed a specimen obtained from Verreaux, and purporting to come 

 from Santa Marta, under the name Buglodytes albicilius, both genus 

 and species being new. Two years later, after examining the type, 



