﻿MAMMALS OF NORTHERN COLOMBIA — HERSHKOVITZ 353 



Remarks. — A dark form, most nearly resembling surdaster of north- 

 western Ecuador. 



SYLVILAGUS BRASILIENSIS CONSOBRINIIS Anthony 



Sylvilagus gabbi consobrinus Anthony, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 37, p. 

 335, 1917. 



Holotyjje.— Adult female, skin and skull, A.M.N.H. No. 36793; 

 collected February 21, 1914, by H. E. Anthony. 



T'ype locality. — Old Panama (near City of Panama), Panama. 

 Distribution. — Known only from type locality. 

 Remarks. — Described as an extremely pale form. 



SYLVILAGUS BRASILIENSIS SANCTAEMARTAE. new subspecies 



Holotype.— Adult female, skin and skull, U.S.N.M. No. 279993; 

 collected March 12, 1942, by Philip Hershkovitz; original number, 232. 



Type locality. — ^Colonia Agricola de Caracolicito, Rio AriguanI, 

 southern slope of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, department of 

 Magdalena, Colombia; altitude, 335 meters. 



Distribution. — Department of Magdalena, northern Colombia ; lower 

 southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta southeastward, 

 through remaining stands of woodland, into forests bordering the 

 middle Rio Cesar. 



Characters. — A pale race, almost ashy in appearance as contrasted 

 with the nearest geographic ally, messorius of Panama; less markedly 

 paler than Panamanian (Gatun) representatives of gabbi; pelage 

 shorter, thinner, with that of rostrum hispid, cheek and upper sm-face 

 of hind foot paler than in nicefori and apollinaris of the Colombian 

 Andes. Dorsal surface Cinnamon-Buff thinly lined with black or 

 dark brown; rostrum Ochraceous-Orange very lightly ticked with 

 black; circumorbital region, except for buffy supraorbital patch, dark 

 brown; upper surface of hind foot with approximately equal amounts 

 of white and ochraceous. 



Coloration of holotype. — Tip of nose brownish, outer border of nares 

 white, rostrum Ochraceous-Orange lightly mixed with black; cheek 

 Warm Buff mixed with black; supraorbital patch Light Buff, a dark 

 band beneath and behind orbit; outer surface of ear between Russet 

 and Mars Brown terminally; nuchal patch Tawny. Back Cinnamon- 

 BufF overlaid with black; cover hairs Pale Drab Gray basally, Cin- 

 namon-Buff subterminally, black terminally; wool hairs entirely Pale 

 Drab Gray on anterior half, gradually becoming darker on posterior 

 half of back; guard hairs entirely black terminally, like others basally. 

 Rump and inner side of thigh and leg mixed with Tawny; wool hairs 

 Tawny terminally, cover hairs like back but sparse, guard hairs absent. 

 Side of body paler than back, with less black, the subterminal bands 

 of cover hairs Light Buff; side of neck warmer. Side of forearm 



