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to the lowlands and lower foothills, below 1,000 feet. It seems partial 

 to the dry region about Santa Marta, being very rare at Fundacion, 

 and not detected at all on the north coast, at Don Diego or Dibulla, 

 although present at Fonseca and Valencia, on the east side. It occurs 

 usually in pairs or small flocks, is very tame, and has a weak, musical 

 call-note. Like T. crassirostris, it is extremely fond of the fruit of 

 the mistletoe-like plant referred to under the head of that species. 

 The nest is described by Dr. Allen as a slight structure, suspended by 

 the rim from the fork of a small branch, and so thin that the eggs 

 would be partly visible from below. " The two eggs have a faintly 

 bluish white ground-color, almost uniformly speckled all over with dots 

 and small spots of chestnut, but with the larger spots chiefly at the 

 larger end of the egg." 45 



480. Chlorophonia frontalis psittacina Bangs. 



Chlorophonia frontalis (not Euphonia frontalis Sclater) Salvin and Godman, 

 Ibis, 1879, 198, 199 (Valley of Chinchicua and San Jose). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves,. I, 1883, 253, in text (Sierra Nevada de Santa 

 Marta, in range). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 55 (Sierra 

 Nevada de Santa Marta and Valley of Chinchicua). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Washington, XIII, 1899, 104 (Chirua, La Concepcion, and San Miguel). 

 — Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, I, 1899, 80 (San Sebastian). — 

 Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 170 (Onaca, Las Nubes, Val- 

 paraiso, and El Libano). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1901, 671 (Sierra Nevada 

 [de Santa Marta], in range). 



Chlorophonia frontalis psittacina Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, III, 

 1902, 88 (La Concepcion [type-locality] and San Sebastian; orig. descr. ; 

 type now in coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.; crit.). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., XXI, 1905, 278 (ref. orig. descr.; syn.). — von Berlepsch, Verh. V. 

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

 Hellmayr and von Seilern, Arch. f. Naturg., LXXVIII, 1912, 54, in text 

 Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in range; ref. orig. descr.). 



45 I have never taken the nest of this species, but it seems to me that the 

 nest described by Dr. Allen as belonging to this bird must certainly have been 

 wrongly identified in the field by the collector. Two species of the same 

 genus, as closely related as T. crassirostris and T. trinitatis, could hardly 

 build nests so entirely dissimilar. Even Chlorophonia builds a nest closely 

 similar to that of Tanagra crassirostris. — M. A. C, Jr. 



The two nests attributed to this species in the collection of the Carnegie 

 Museum are different from that described by Dr. Allen, both being placed in 

 a small upright branch. Compare also, in this connection, the nest described 

 by Mr. Cherrie (Museum Brooklyn Institute Science Bulletin, II, 1916. 170). 

 — W. E. C. T. 



