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it is usually found in company. Two nests sent in from Bonda by Mr. 

 Smith are described by Dr. Allen as " deeply cup-shaped, compactly 

 woven of fine plant fibers and lined with finer material of the same 

 character." Both were placed in the fork of a small branch. " The 

 eggs [two in number] are pale bluish white, in one set nearly clear 

 white, sprinkled with small spots of reddish chestnut, massed chiefly 

 around the greater end." The dates represented are May 6 and June 2. 



499. Sicalis citrina browni Bangs. 



Sycalis browni Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 139 ("Santa 



Marta "; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Mus. Comp. Zool. ; crit.) ; XIII, 1899, 



102 (Palomina and La Concepcion ; crit,). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 



Hist., XIII, 1900, 121, 165 (Bangs' references). 

 Pseudochloris citrina (not Sycalis citrina von Pelzeln) Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 



Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 163 (Onaca). 

 Sycalis Columbiana var. browni Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1901, 601 ("Santa 



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

 Pseudochloris browni Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, V, 1909, 326 (ref. orig. descr.; 



range). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 381 (ref. orig. 



descr.; range). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, 572, 



in text (Onaca; crit.). 



Twenty-seven specimens : Onaca, Minca, and San Miguel. 



The writer is not prepared to recognize a genus Pseudochloris to 

 include this and related species, as is done by Sharpe. Mr. Bangs de- 

 scribed this form under the impression that it was a true Sicalis, but 

 discovered later that it was probably the same as Colombian specimens 

 of the bird called by Sharpe Pseudochloris citrina (von Pelzeln). 

 Brazil being the type-locality for the name in question, Mr. Bangs 

 suggested that it was possible that the northern birds might prove 

 separable, in which case the name he had given would hold. No topo- 

 typical material has been available in this connection, but a few years 

 ago a specimen of browni from La Cumbre, Venezuela, was sent to 

 Mr. Hellmayr with a request to make the indicated comparison. He 

 writes as follows : " This is an exceedingly poor subspecies of Pseu- 

 dochloris citrina from Brazil, and in reality may not be separable 

 at all. Some time ago I compared a good series from northern locali- 

 ties (Bogota and the mountains of British Guiana) with von Pelzeln's 

 types, borrowed from the Vienna Museum, and could not discover the 

 slightest differences in coloration. Your bird from La Cumbre is 

 practically identical with the one from Bogota in this Museum, which, 



