Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 495 



Tangara desmaresti Hellmayr and von Seilern, Arch. f. Naturg., LXXVIII, 



1912, 58 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in range). 

 Tangara viridissima (not Aglaia viridissima Lafresnaye) Hellmayr, Verh. 



Orn. Ges. Bayern, XIV, 1920, 283, note (" Santa Marta," in range, crit.). 

 Tangara viridissima toddi Bangs and Penard, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



XXXIV, 1921, 92 (San Francisco; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Mus. Comp. 



Zool.). 



Additional records : La Concepcion, San Antonio, San Francisco, 

 San Miguel (Brown) ; Las Taguas (Carriker) ; Las Nubes (Smith). 



Nineteen specimens : Jordan, Onaca, Cincinnati, Don Diego, and 

 Las Vegas. 



Santa Martan specimens appear to differ from typical Trinidad birds 

 of this species in their generally brighter, less bluish green coloration, 

 while the cap and tibiae are paler maroon. A series from Venezuela 

 and another from Boyaca, Colombia, however, are different again. 

 Nos. 42,094 (May 31) and 42,167 (June 7) are immature birds, in 

 which the green color is much paler throughout, and the maroon of 

 the head is merely indicated, most of the crown being greenish, with a 

 saffron tinge. 



Tangara viridissima toddi is the most abundant and widespread of 

 the genus in this region, ranging on the north and west slopes of the 

 San Lorenzo from the lower edge of the foothills up to about 7,000 

 feet, or from the Tropical well into the Subtropical Zone. It is present 

 also on the coastal plain at Don Diego, but is rare. It is not so com- 

 mon at Pueblo Viejo as on the San Lorenzo, and ranges much lower 

 down there. Simons secured it at Guallabal, near San Antonio, while 

 Mr. Brown collected a series at several localities in this neighbor- 

 hood. The species is gregarious in its habits, and is abundant in the 

 shade-trees of the coffee-plantations. 



477. Poecilothraupis melanogenys Salvin and Godman. 



Poacilothraupis melanogenys Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 120, pi. 3 (San 

 Sebastian; orig. descr. type now in coll. Brit. Mus.; crit.). — Reichenow 

 and Schalow, Journ. f. Orn., XXVIII, 1880, 323 (reprint orig. descr.). — 

 Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 147 (Templado and San Sebastian; 

 descr.). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 179 (Macotama) ; 

 XIII, 1899, 104 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 7,500-12,000 ft. [?]). — 

 Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 120, 169 (El Libano and 

 San Lorenzo). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1901, 664 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 

 — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, V, 1909, 374 (range). — von Berlepsch, Verh. 

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