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cula, and Merula gigas cacosela. Critical remarks on various other 

 forms are also included. 



1899. Stone, Witmer. Octhaca frontalis (Lafr.) and Cardinalis granadensis 

 Lafr. — Auk, January, 1899, 78. 



The latter (originally described from the Santa Marta region) is 

 " probably a synonym of C. phcenicurus " (i.e., phccniceus) . 



1899. Bangs, Outram. On the Subspecies of Manacus manacus (Linn.). — ■ 



Proceedings New England Zoological Club, I, March 31. 1899, 33-37. 



A review of the various races of this species, the Santa Marta 



bird being described under the name Manacus manacus abditivus. 



1899. Hartert, Ernst J. O. Further Notes on Humming Birds. — Novitates 

 Zoologicce, VI, April 15, 1899, 72-75. 



Contains a critical note on a Santa Marta specimen of Metallura 

 smaragdinicollis in the British Museum, suggesting that it will 

 probably prove to belong to an undescribed form — thus anticipating 

 Mr. Bangs, who gave it a name a few months later. 



1899. Bangs, Outram. The Hummingbirds of the Santa Marta Region of 

 Colombia. — Auk, XVI, April, 1899, 135-139, pi. 2. 



A semi-popular article on the Trochilidae and certain other species 

 of this region, with some account of the region itself and the orni- 

 thological explorations therein of Mr. Brown and his predecessors. 

 A colored plate of Leucnria phalerata accompanies the paper. 



1899. Stone, Witmer. A Study of the Type Specimens in the Collection 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with a brief 

 History of the Collection. — Proceedings Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences of Philadelphia, (May), 1899, 5-62. 



Records the type-specimens of Cardinalis granadensis and Den- 

 droplex picirostris, described by Lafresnaye in 1847 from Rio Hacha 

 (page 51). 



1899. Sharpe, R. Bowdler. A Hand-List of the Genera and Species of Birds. 

 Volume I. London, (July?), 1899, pp. xxi + 303. 



Lists Neocrex colombianus Bangs (page 106), a species at that 

 time known only from the type-locality. 



1899. Bangs, Outram. On some new or rare birds from the Sierra Nevada 

 de Santa Marta, Colombia. — Proceedings Biological Society of 

 Washington, XIII, November n, 1899, 91—108. Review, Auk, XVII. 

 1900, 82 ; Ibis, 1900, 547. 



This, the fourth faunal paper by Mr. Bangs on the birds of this 

 region, is based, so he tells us, on a collection of more than thirteen 

 hundred specimens made by Mr. Wilmot W. Brown from the latter 

 part of January until early April, 1899, during which period he 

 visited many stations at altitudes ranging from 3,000 to 15,000 feet. 

 Not all the species secured are listed, but only those of special in- 

 terest, sixty-two in all. of which no less than thirteen are de- 

 scribed as new, namely, Pharomachrus festatus, Metallura districta, 



