88 BANGS — NEW SANTA MARTA BIRDS eeepc 
The new species differs from JZ. marginatus in having the flanks 
and sides conspicuously banded with dusky, and in the whole back 
and rump being concolor; from JZ. sguamulatus by the duller 
brown color of upper parts, by the whole throat being indistinctly 
barred with grayish, and by paler colors below; from JZ. 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—W ing, 55.; tail, 19.5; tarsus, 22.; exposed culmen, 17.5 mm. 
Chlorophonia frontalis psittacina! subsp. nov. 
Chlorophonia frontalis Scl., Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIII, 
Dp: 170; 
Type, from La Concepcion, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 3000 
feet altitude, g 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 Psittactnus — of a parrot; parrot-colored. 
