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under tail-coverts, as described by Sharpe and others. Mr. Bangs 

 even intimates that Santa Marta skins may be different from typical 

 Cayenne examples — a matter which the writer is unable to discuss. 

 Nos. 44,903-4, March 9, and 44,992, March 16, are evidently in juvenal 

 dress, being strongly tinged with amber yellow below and isabella- 

 color above, with the sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts more or less 

 distinctly streaked with dusky brown. 



In Costa Rica and Venezuela the writer found this bird in the 

 savannas below 1,000 feet, but in the Santa Marta region it seems not 

 to come lower than 2,000 feet (Pueblo Viejo), ranging thence up to 

 6,000 feet, or from the higher part of the Tropical well into the Sub- 

 tropical Zone. The locality " Santa Marta " quoted by Mr. Bangs is 

 of course an obvious error. It is found only in the tall thick grass of 

 the open savannas, and is very shy and hard to flush, except early in 

 the morning or just after a shower. 



509. Brachyspiza capensis peruviana (Lesson). 



Zonotrichia pileata (not Emberiza pileata Boddaert) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 

 1879, 200 (Atanquez) ; 1880, 122 (San Sebastian and Sierra Nevada de Santa 

 Marta; food). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XII, 1888, 610 (San Sebas- 

 tian, Atanquez, and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta). 



Brachyspiza capensis peruviana Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 

 178 (San Miguel). — Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, I, 1899, 79 (San 

 Sebastian and El Mamon). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 

 164 (Salvin and Godman's and Bangs' references). 



Additional records: La Concepcion, Paramo de Macotama (Brown). 



Fourteen specimens : San Lorenzo, Chirua, San Miguel, Cerro de 

 Caracas, and Macotama. 



The series collected agree well with birds from Costa Rica and 

 northern Venezuela, although the flanks are perhaps a trifle paler 

 brown than in the latter. No. 42,528, San Lorenzo, July 19, is un- 

 usually dark and rufescent above. 



An abundant species throughout the Temperate Zone in this region, 

 wherever the proper conditions obtain, and descending at intervals to 

 the Subtropical Zone. On the San Lorenzo it is not found below 8,000 

 feet, but in the Macotama Valley is common down to 5,000 feet. One 

 specimen was even taken in the Chirua Valley as low down as 3,500 

 feet, but this is very unusual. It is partial to the open country, where 

 there are scattered bushes and stunted shrubbery, avoiding the forest 



