500 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Chlorophonia psittacina Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, V, 1909, 354 (ref. orig. 

 descr. ; range). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 399 (ref. 

 orig. descr. ; range). 



Twenty-five specimens : Onaca, Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Pueblo 

 Viejo, and San Miguel. 



Only a few of these are adult males, the majority being females 

 and young, characterized by their much duller coloration. It is prob- 

 able that the species breeds in the immature dress; at any rate, this 

 plumage is found in examples taken in the months of March and July. 

 There are three individuals apparently completing the postjuvenal 

 moult (August 11), as shown by the green feathers coming in on the 

 throat. 



Simons secured a few specimens of this handsome tanager at San 

 Jose and the Valley of Chinchicua, on the south slope of the Sierra 

 Nevada. These were females, and were referred to the Venezuelan 

 C. frontalis both by Salvin and Godman and by Sclater. Mr. Brown 

 secured a series from sundry localities on the north and south slopes 

 of the range, enabling Mr. Bangs to discriminate the bird inhabiting 

 this region as a distinct race from frontalis. The form is a sufficiently 

 well characterized one, apparently confined to the Santa Marta region. 

 It occurs in the Sierra Nevada between about 2,000 and 6,000 feet, 

 but in the San Lorenzo, according to the observation of the writer, it 

 ranges from 4,000 to 7,000 feet, although it is more common below 

 6,000 feet. It is strictly a forest species, and is usually seen in pairs 

 or small parties, nearly always high up in the trees. Often it is found 

 as a member of the bands of roaming birds in the forest, and at times 

 coming out into the shade-trees of the coffee-haciendas. In its habits 

 while feeding it reminds me strongly of the vireos. 



Three nests of this beautiful bird were taken on the junior author's 

 plantation, "Vista Nieve " (between Cincinnati and Las Taguas) at 

 about 5,500 feet, on May 17, 1919. One of these was placed in a small 

 cavity near the top of a perpendicular bank beside a flume, while the 

 other two were in crevices of a low overhanging cliff. The sites were 

 all in the open, in newly felled land, about one hundred yards from 

 the edge of the forest. The nests were very similar to those of Tana- 

 gra crassirostris, and domed over in the same way, like that of the Oven- 

 bird of the north. The material used in their composition is different, 

 however, there being more dry grasses, rootlets, and leaves, and the 



