FEBRUARY §8, 1901 VoL. II, pp. 51-52 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW HONEY CREEPER FROM SAN MIGUEL 
ISLAND, PANAMA. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
WHEN I wrote the list of birds collected by W. W. Brown, Jr., 
in San Miguel Island, Archipelago de las Perlas, in the Bay of 
Panama, one species— the yellow honey creeper— was not com- 
pared with sufficient care with related forms, and I discovered, 
much to my regret, too late to incorporate it in my paper, which 
appeared in the Auk for January, rgo1, that this bird is a strongly 
characterized island species. Dr. Robert Ridgway, when at work 
on the genus Cwreba for his great book on American birds, com- 
pared the San Miguel Island specimens carefully with C. Zuteola 
and C. mexicana, and at once detected the differences. He most 
kindly wrote me about the matter, and gave me a chance to 
correct my mistake. Strangely enough, the affinities of the 
species lie much more closely with C. /uteofa of Venezuela, 
Trinidad, and northeastern Colombia, than with C. mexicana of 
the neighboring coasts of Panama and western Colombia. 
The Cereba of San Miguel Island, which in my paper on the 
birds of that island (Auk, Jan., 1go1, p. 30) appears as Cwreba 
mexicana columbiana should instead be known as 
