468 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



447. Leistes militaris (Linnaeus). 

 Two specimens : Fundacion. 



While none of the examples from Venezuela and Colombia are quite 

 up to the measurements quoted by Mr. Bangs (Proceedings Biological 

 Society of Washington, XXIV, 191 1, 190) for specimens from the 

 Lower Amazon Valley, several approach the latter quite closely in this 

 respect, and a subdivision of the species on such a basis does not seem 

 to us advisable. Care must be used in comparing specimens, as the 

 species is one which is greatly affected by wear. 



During the writer's last day's shooting at Fundacion two males of 

 this handsome species were met with, both of which were secured. 

 They were together and apparently alone, no others being seen before 

 or after. The species is well known to have a wide distribution in 

 South America, but this is the first record for the Santa Marta region. 



448. Agelaius icterocephalus icterocephalus (Linnaeus). 

 Thirty-three specimens : Fundacion and Dibulla. 



These have nothing to do with the large form described by Dr. 

 Chapman from the Bogota region of Colombia, with which they have 

 been directly compared, but it is by no means certain that they belong 

 to the typical form from Cayenne. Unfortunately no adequate series 

 from the latter locality is yet available, but the few adult females from 

 British Guiana studied are somewhat different from the Fundacion 

 and Dibulla skins of that sex. The latter are more brightly colored, 

 and the yellow of the throat is extended over the breast and upper 

 abdomen, growing paler and less " solid " posteriorly ; the lower abdo- 

 men, under tail-coverts, and tibiae are much paler gray by comparison, 

 and are more or less tinged with yellowish olive. The auriculars are 

 mostly bright yellow like the throat, leaving only a narrow postorbital 

 streak of dusky greenish above them. There is also more yellowish 

 olive suffusion and feather-edging on the upper parts, remiges, and 

 rectrices. While all the specimens are in more worn plumage (Au- 

 gust) than the available examples from farther east, it seems scarcely 

 possible that season would account for all these characters. However, 

 February specimens from Lorica, Bolivar, Colombia, fail to show 

 these characters, while a bird in fresh plumage (February 13) from 

 La Pedrita, Rio Uracoa, Venezuela (No. 58,666, Collection Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia), a locality close to the Guiana 



