BIRD LIFE IN THE URUBAMBA VALLEY OF PERU. 9 



Griseom, Mr. W. DeW. Miller, Mrs. E. M. B. Reichenberger, and Mr. 

 Charles H. Rogers. To Mrs. Reichenberger I am especially indebted 

 for a preliminary examination of specimens which greatly facilitated 

 their final determination. I have also to thank Mr. Outram Bangs 

 for the loan of specimens from the collections under his charge, and 

 Mr. L. S. Blaisdell, of Arequipa, and Senor Carlos Duque, of Santa 

 Ana, for com'tesies and hospitalities extended to us in the field. 



PREVIOUS ORNITHOLOGICAL WORK IN THE URUBAMBA VALLEY. 



So far as published records go, om' knowledge of the bird life of the 

 Urubamba region is based upon the collections made by Whitely and 

 Kalinowski and reported upon respectively by Sclater and Salvin and 

 von Berlepsch and Stolzmann, references to whose works are included 

 beyond. 



Castelnau descended the Urubamba from near Cuzco to the Ucaj'ali 

 in the autumn of 1846, but beyond a reference^ to the cock-of-the- 

 rock, under the "Vallee de Santa Ana," I find no mention of the bird 

 life of the district here under consideration in his works. 



WHITELY'S COLLECTIONS.* 



The first bird collector to enter the Urubamba region was Mr. H. 

 Whitely, who, during the com'se of explorations in southern Peru, 

 extending over a number of years, visited Tinta and vicinity in the 

 upper valley in August, 1868, and the Santa Ana Valley subsequently. 



From the first-named region he secured a fairly representative 

 collection, but the collection from the Santa Ana district is far from 

 complete. A list of Whitely's localities in the Urubamba Valley 

 follows : 



Tinta (altitude, 11,329 feet). — A small towTi midway between La 

 Raya and Cuzco. It is in the Puna Zone, but the occurrence of 

 Diglossa hninneivenfris and Tlirawpis darwini laeta indicates that it 

 is not far above the upper limits of the arid Temperate Zone. Whitely 

 collected at and near Tinta from May to August, 1868, securing 131 

 specimens of 46 species, among them the tj^pes of Lessonia niger 

 oreas, Agriornis insolens, and Poospizopsis caesar.^ 



Pifumarca. — A village near and slightly higher than Tinta (alti- 

 tude, 11,329 feet) in the upper Urubamba Valley, visited by Whitely 

 in 1868. Type locality of Columba alhipennis. 



Tungasuca. — A village near and slightly higher than Tinta (alti- 

 tude, 11,329 feet) in the upper Urubamba Valley, visited by Whitely 

 in 1868. 



Huiro (altitude, 4,800 feet). — ^A settlemxcnt about 8 miles east of 

 the junction of the Vilcabamba with the Urubamba at Chauillay 



» Hist, du Voy., voL 4, p. 288. 



< See Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1869, pp. 151-158; 1876, pp. 15-19. 



' Idem. 



