524 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



from 5,000 to 8,000 feet in the heavy Subtropical Zone forest, but in 

 the Sierra Nevada proper it is found as low as 2,000 feet, and as high 

 as 9,000 feet. It is not a common bird anywhere, however, and its 

 habits tend to make it inconspicuous. It keeps near the ground, spend- 

 ing most of its time scratching about among the leaves and rubbish, 

 like the Towhee of the eastern United States. It is invariably seen in 

 pairs. 



An example in juvenal dress (No. 63,230, Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia, March 19) is much browner above than the 

 adult, with the pileum like the back, the stripes scarcely indicated; be- 

 low it is sepia brown, obscurely streaked with dusky brown, especially 

 on the throat, breast, and middle of the abdomen; the bill also is duller 

 colored. Two other specimens, collected July 12 and 25, are similar, 

 but the postjuvenal moult is just beginning. 



503. Atlapetes melanocephalus (Salvin and Godman). 



Buarremon melanocephalus Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 121 (San Sebas- 

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

 Schalow, Journ. f. Orn., XXVIII, 1880, 322 (reprint orig. descr.). — Sclater, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 261 (San Sebastian and San Jose; descr.). — 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1887, 130, in text (range). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, XII, 1898, 178 (San Miguel, Palomina, and San Francisco; descr. 

 young). — Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, I, 1899, 79 (San Sebastian 

 and El Mamoiy). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 120, 167 

 (Las Nubes, Valparaiso, and El Libano). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1901, 

 648 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in range; ref. orig. descr.). — Sharpe, 

 Hand-List Birds, V, 1909, 337 (Santa Marta [region], in range). 



Atlapetes melanocephalus von Berlepsch, Verh. V. Int. Orn. -Kong., 1911, 

 1097 (Santa Marta localities; ref. orig. descr.). — Brabourne and Chubb, 

 Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 387 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 



Additional records : La Concepcion, Chirua, Paramo de Chiruqua 

 (?), Santa Cruz (Brown). 



Twenty-eight specimens : El Libano, Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Pueblo 

 Viejo, San Lorenzo, Las Taguas, and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 

 (6,000 and 8,000 feet). 



In juvenal plumage, illustrated by No. 37,695, the color-pattern 

 closely resembles that of the adult, but the colors are duller and paler. 

 The upper parts are more brownish, with less contrast between the 

 back and the pileum, while the under parts are dull buffy yellow, nar- 

 rowly streaked with dusky from the breast down. This bird was taken 



