88 BANGS — NEW SANTA MARTA BIRDS f" ^jj^fj 0- 



The new species differs from M. marginatas in having the flanks 

 and sides conspicuously banded with dusky, and in the whole back 

 and rump being concolor; from M. squamiilatus by the duller 

 brown color of upper parts, by the whole throat being indistinctly 

 barred with grayish, and by paler colors below ; from M. pectoralis 

 Robinson and Richmond, of La Guayra, Venezuela, by duller 

 color above and paler colors below. It is also smaller than either 

 of the last two. 



The type may be described as follows. Head, back and rump a shade 

 between Prout's brown and raw umber, the head with darker centres to the 

 feathers, giving a slightly scaly appearance ; upper tail coverts similar, but 

 with dusky cross bands ; wings and tail dark, dusky brown, the secondaries 

 and tertials edged with the color of back and indistinctly crossed by dusky 

 bands ; small pale spots at ends of greater and middle coverts ; sides of head 

 grayish brown ; throat grayish white, with small, dusky grayish speckles ; breast 

 and middle of belly grayish white, thickly and irregularly barred and marked 

 with grayish brown ; sides, flanks, lower belly and under tail coverts, dull raw 

 umber (the color is, perhaps, exactly speaking, raw umber slightly shaded with 

 Prout's brown), thickly banded with dusky brown. 



Measurements. — Wing, 55. ; tail, 19.5 ; tarsus, 22. ; exposed culmen, 17.5 mm. 



Chlorophonia frontalis psittacina 1 subsp. nov. 



Chlorophonia frontalis Scl., Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII, 

 p. 170. 



Type, from La Concepcion, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 3000 

 feet altitude, $ adult, no. 6042, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs, collected Feb. 

 18, 1899, by W. W. Brown, Jr. 



The descriptions and the fine plate in ' Exotic Ornithology ' of 

 C. frontalis of Venezuela show several striking points of difference 

 between the bird of that region and that of the Santa Marta 

 Mountains. Furthermore, from Sclater's significant remark in 

 the ' Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum,' Vol. XI, p. 

 55>— "Examples from the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta (Simons) 

 seem to be similar to the Venezuelan bird," — made on a study 

 of females alone from this region, I infer that that distinguished 



1 Psittacinm — oi a parrot; parrot-colored. 



