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moult, and still retains traces of greenish feathers on the posterior 

 under parts, while the bill is wholly dark. No. 42,353, June 24, is in 

 juvenal dress, which resembles that of the adult above, but the gray of 

 the upper back is wanting, the whole back being suffused with olive, 

 much brighter posteriorly. The wings and tail are as in the adult. 

 Below, the general color is dull whitish, obscurely streaked with dusky, 

 the breast and flanks shaded with buffy olive, with the black areas on 

 either side of the throat indicated, and the abdomen tinged with pale 

 yellow. The bill is black, instead of yellow, as in the adult. 



This species was described by Bonaparte (ex Lafresnaye, MS.) in 

 1850, from "Am [erica] m[eridionalis]," and a specimen purporting to 

 come from Santa Marta was received by Sclater from Verreaux 

 shortly thereafter. Salvin and Godman recorded it from Minca, and 

 it is represented from various localities in all the collections made in 

 more recent years. It is essentially a bird of the foothills section 

 of the Tropical Zone, ranging from their lower edge up to 3,000 feet, 

 but may occasionally straggle beyond these bounds. Mr. Brown, in- 

 deed, claims to have secured it at La Concepcion, Chirua, Palomina, 

 and San Miguel, but by the writer it was found to be very rare in the 

 main Sierras. Only two specimens were taken at Pueblo Viejo, and 

 a few others seen. It was common, however, at Loma Larga, at the 

 eastern end of the range. It is very partial to the " dry forest " of the 

 semi-arid belt, but was not noted anywhere in the heavy forest between 

 Santa Marta and Dibulla, nor at Fundacion. It keeps near the ground 

 in the thickets, and has a weak chirp, but no song. It is always seen 

 in pairs, actively hopping about in the bushes or on the ground, very 

 much after the manner of Biiarremon basilicus. 



The known range of this species extends west along the coast as 

 far at least as Cartagena, and it occurs also near Caracas, Venezuela, 

 although there are no published records from the intermediate region. 

 Santa Marta has been proposed as the type-locality by von Berlepsch, 

 but whether on the basis of the original specimen it is at present im- 

 possible to say. 



505. Arremonops conirostris conirostris Bonaparte. 



Arremon conirostris Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1855, 154 (" Santa 



Marta "). 

 Embernagra conirostris Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1861, 117 ("Santa Marta"). 



— Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 123 ("Santa Marta"). — Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., XII, 1888, 763 ("Santa Marta"). 



