496 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



V. Int. Orn.-Kong., 191 1, 1046 (Santa Marta localities; ref. orig. descr.). — 

 Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 413 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 



Additional records: Paramo de Macotama (Brown). 



Twenty-eight specimens : El Libano, San Lorenzo, Heights erf 

 Chirua, San Miguel, and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (6,000 and 

 8,000 feet). 



Some females of this series have the black area on the sides of the 

 head a little duller, but many are quite indistinguishable from males. 



This beautiful tanager is peculiar to the Santa Marta region, where 

 it is a characteristic species of the Subtropical Zone. On the San 

 Lorenzo it ranges from 6,ooo feet to the highest point, but in the Sierra 

 Nevada it is found from 5,000 to about 9,000 feet, or perhaps even 

 10,000 feet, although the writer cannot now recall having seen it above 

 9,000. Mr. Brown reported it up to 12,000 feet, which is certainly 

 a mistake, as it is a woodland bird entirely, and no forest is found in 

 the Sierra Nevada at that altitude. It travels about in the tops of 

 the trees in pairs or small bands, and never comes down near the 

 ground. It has a weak chirping note, easily recognized when once 

 learned. 



It was described from a pair of birds taken by Simons near San 

 Sebastian, on the south slope of the Sierra Nevada, at an altitude of 

 8,000 feet. Later another male was secured at Templado, and the 

 species contined to be known from these three examples alone until 

 Mr. Brown's and Mr. Smith's series were obtained. 



478. Tanagra crassirostris (Sclater). 



Euphonia laniirostris (not of Lafresnaye and D'Orbigny) Salvin and Godman, 

 Ibis, 1879, 199 (Atanquez ; crit.) ; 1880, 119 (Santa Marta, Minca, and Atan- 

 quez). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1883. 262 (Sierra 

 Nevada de Santa Marta, in range). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 

 1886, 76 (Santa Marta, Minca, and Atanquez). 



Euphonia crassirostris Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 141 

 ("Santa Marta"). 179 (Palomina). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XIII, 1900, 170 (Bonda, Onaca, Minca, and Cacagualito ; crit.). — Ridgway, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, II, 1902, 28 ("Santa Marta"; meas. ; ref- 

 erences). 



Euphonia crassirostris brachyptera von Berlepsch, Verh. V. Int. Orn.-Kong., 

 191 1, 1019 (Santa Marta, in range), 1128 (Bonda; crit.; meas.). 



Tanagra crassirostris Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 401 (ref. 

 orig. descr.; range). 



Tanagra crassirostris crassirostris Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXVI, 1917, 591 ("Santa Marta"; meas.). 



