482 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



cela. A few were noted at Fundacion also, as well as on the other 

 side of the mountains, at Loma Larga, Fonseca, and Valencia. As is 

 well known, the birds live and breed in colonies, building from a half- 

 dozen to fifty nests in one tree. They are noisy, making many curi- 

 ous sounds, and in their food-habits seem to be largely vegetarians. 



Family TANAGRID^. 42 Tanagers. 



462. Schistochlamys atra atra (Gmelin). 



Schistochlamys atra Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIII, 1899, 104 (La 



Concepcion and San Antonio). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 



1900, 166 (Bangs' reference). 



One specimen : Chirua. 



The single specimen sent in by Mr. Carriker agrees with a series 

 from northern Venezuela in having the capistrum deep black instead 

 of brownish black, as in most examples from Brazil, Bolivia, etc. 

 The subdivision of the species proposed by the present writer a few 

 years ago (Annals Carnegie Museum, VIII, 1912, 203), based on 

 this character, can probably be maintained, but a good series from 

 French Guiana shows that it is the southern bird which requires to 

 be separated. It will take the name olivina Sclater, based on a female 

 from Matto Grosso, Brazil. 



Mr. Brown got twelve specimens of this tanager at La Concepcion, 

 Chirua, and San Antonio, but it proved to be very rare or absent in 

 all the localities in the Sierra Nevada visited by the writer. The 

 single specimen secured was shot on the grass-covered mountainside 

 south of the Chirua Valley, at an altitude of about 3,500 feet. No 

 others were seen. It apparently is a species of the Upper Tropical 

 Zone, at least in this region. 



Habia fuscicauda erythrolaema Sclater. 



Phaenicothraupis rubicoides (not Salt at or rubicoides Lafresnaye) Sclater, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1856, 120 ("Santa Marta " ; crit.). 

 Phaenicothraupis erythrolama Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1861, 83 (" Santa 



Marta"; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.). 

 Phaenicothraupis fuscicauda erythrolcema Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. 



42 The shifting of the generic name upon which a family is based to another 

 group within the family limits should not, in our opinion, necessitate a change 

 in the family name. We therefore retain Tanagridce for the Tanagers and 

 Cacrebida for the Honey Creepers. 



