Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 443 



Hellmayr's own handwriting — moreover, why should Sharpe want 

 Hellmayr's opinion, as he could compare both types himself whenever 

 he liked to do so? " 



This should suffice to settle the matter along the lines laid down by 

 Dr. Chapman in his recent work on Colombian birds. Dr. Allen's 

 mistake was due to the fact that he had no specimens from the interior 

 of Colombia for comparison. 



An abundant bird in the forest between 2,500 and 7,000 feet, but 

 most numerous between 3,500 and 5,500 feet. It is always met with in 

 pairs or families, flitting about among the shrubbery and low trees, 

 and is usually silent until disturbed, when it chirps noisily. The nest 

 is domed over, like that of the Ovenbird of the north, and is placed 

 in a crevice under an overhanging bank or among the roots of a tree. 

 The eggs are three or four in number, white, thickly speckled and 

 dotted with chestnut brown. 



410. Myioborus flavivertex (Salvin). 



Setopliaga flavivertex Salvin, Ibis, 1887, 129, pi. 4 (Sierra Nevada de Santa 

 Marta; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Brit. Mus. ; crit). — Bangs, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 180 (Macotama). — Bangs, Auk, XVI, 

 1899, 137, in text (range). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, XIII, 1900, 

 176 (El Libano). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1901, 441 (ref. orig. descr.; 

 range). 



Myioborus flavivertex Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, V, 1909, 121 (ref. orig. descr.; 

 range). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 357 (ref. orig. 

 descr.; range). 



Twenty-six specimens : El Libano, San Lorenzo, Sierra Nevada de 

 Santa Marta (6,000 feet), San Miguel, Cerro de Caracas, Macotama, 

 Paramo de Mamarongo, and Heights of Chirua. 



These all have the front and short superciliaries decidedly tinged 

 with tawny, especially above the eye, instead of pure white, as given 

 in the original description and represented in the plate. The under 

 tail-coverts vary from yellow to almost pure white. No. 37,914 (July 

 16) is completing the postjuvenal moult, the head being dull brown, 

 not black, and the yellow crest being duller and more restricted. 



The first specimens of this handsome little warbler were received 

 from one of Whitely's correspondents in this region, and described 

 and figured by Salvin. Mr. Brown obtained a pair at Macotama, and 

 Mr. Smith's collectors secured a few at El Libano, on the San Lorenzo. 



