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Henicorhina leucophrys (Tsch.). 
Size smaller; bill long; tarsus and foot slender; back and rump rich burnt 
umber to chestnut; top of head usually slightly darker and duller than back, 
sides of crown blackish; a white superciliary stripe extending from nostril to 
side of nape; lores and feathers behind eye black; sub-orbital region black, 
conspicuously spotted with white; primaries and secondaries dusky, edged 
with burnt umber, and crossed by narrow dusky bars; tertials burnt umber, 
crossed by dusky bars; tail burnt umber inclining toward chestnut, narrowly 
barred and marked with dusky; throat white; breast dull gray; sides, flanks 
and under tail-coverts dull burnt umber— paler, less reddish, than the color 
of back. 
Henicorhina anachoreta' sp. nov. 
Type, from Paramo de Chiruqua, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 
12,000 feet altitude, 2 adult, no. 6494, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs, collected 
March 8, 1899, by W. W. Brown, Jr. Size larger; bill veryshort; tarsus and 
foot much stouter; back and rump russet, without reddish or chestnut shades; 
top of head and hind neck brownish olive; pattern of black and white mark- 
ings of sides of head coarser; tertials, and borders of primaries and sec- 
ondaries, russet crossed by dusky bars; tail dull russet (never reddish) barred 
and marked with dusky; throat grayish white, slightly streaked with dusky; 
rest of under parts similar to those of 7. leucophrys. Plumage, everywhere, 
much longer and denser, but especially noticeably so on head and neck, the 
bird evidently being fitted to withstand cold weather. 
MEASUREMENTS (in millimeters). 
Henicorhina leucophrys (Vsch.). 
Exposed 
No. Sex Wing Tail Tarsus culmen 
5602 & 52. 27- Deus 14.6 
6481 rf 52. 26. 23-4 15.07 
6485 2 50. 26. 23-4 14.4 
6486 g 5I. 26. 23-0 14.0? 
Henicorhina anachoreta Bangs. 
Exposed 
No. Sex Wing Tail Tarsus culmen 
6493 é 53-2 28.6 25.0 12.8 
6495 53-4 28.2 25.2 13.0 
6494, type, g 53-0 28.0 25-0 13.0 
6496 Q 52.0 28.2 24.0 12.4 
1dvaxwpntyns —a hermit, recluse. 
2 In a series of twenty adults of H. deucofhrys from the Santa Marta Mts. no. 6486 has the 
shortest bill, and no. 6481 the longest bill. 
