488 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



none of the bluish gray suffusion on the sides and flanks in the male, 

 and the buffy tinge on the throat and breast much paler in the female. 

 The type measures as follows: wing, 69; tail, 45; bill, 12; tarsus, 17.5. 

 It is thus as small as N. p. nana von Berlepsch, described from north- 

 east Peru, and may possibly be the same, although it is fair to presume 

 that had nana been different in coloration von Berlepsch would not 

 have failed to mention it. Unfortunately no specimens from Peru 

 have been available for comparison in this connection. The characters 

 attributed to hypolcuca are remakably constant in a series of twenty- 

 eight specimens from the northern littoral of Colombia. 



This species was met with only at Tucurinca and Fundacion, where 

 it was not uncommon, occurring both in the alluvial plain and in the 

 lower reaches of the foothills. It is a bird of the woodlands, prefer- 

 ring the more or less open kind, and keeps rather high up in the 

 trees, reminding one of the vireos in its general habits and behavior. 

 Simons secured a pair at Valencia, May 20, 1879, this being the only 

 record for the species in this region hitherto. 



468. Piranga testacea faceta Bangs. 



Piranga faceta Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 141 ("Santa 

 Marta " ; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Mus. Comp. Zool. ; crit.) : X III, 

 1899, 104 (La Concepcion and San Miguel). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., XIII, 1900, 121 (Bangs' record). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1901, 658' 

 ("Santa Marta," in range; ref. orig. descr.). — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, V, 

 J 909, 385 (ref. orig. descr.; range). — Beabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., 

 I, 1912, 418 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 



Piranga hamalea (not of Salvin and Godman) Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., XIII, 1900, 168 (Bonda, Onaca, Minca, Cacagualito, and Masinga 

 Vieja). 



Pyranga testacea faceta von Berlepsch, Verh. V. Int. Orn.-Kong., 191 1, 1064 

 ("Santa Marta," in range; ref. orig. descr.). 



Thirty-five specimens : Minca, Cincinnati, and Las Vegas. 



This form is so close to P. t. testacea of Central America that, in 

 common with Messrs. Hellmayr, von Berlepsch, and others, the writer 

 considers it merely subspecifically distinct. Males differ from those 

 of testacea in being a very little brighter red, and in having rather 

 smaller, paler bills. Females differ more than males, being decidedly 

 more yellowish, less greenish, especially below. Some examples of 

 both sexes are very close to P. rubra rubra, but may of course always 

 be distinguished by having the maxilla prominently toothed. In first 



