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Hellmayr and Seilern on the Birds of the Cumbre de Valencia, 

 Venezuela. 1 — This important contribution to neotropical ornithology is 

 based upon a collection of 1200 skins made by Mr. S. M. Klagesin 1909 and 

 1910, and comprises annotations upon 172 species or subspecies, while a 

 list of 39 species reported by other writers of this region but not obtained by 

 Mr. EOages is added. The following forms are described as new either 

 from the collection itself or from other material examined in connection with 

 its study: Tangara guttata bogotensis, Bogota; Xanthoma yncas andicola, 

 Merida, Venezuela; Myiodyuaslcs chrysocephalus vcnezuelanus, Cumbre 

 de Valencia; Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii striaticcps, Cumbre de Valencia; 

 Sittasomus griseus virescens, Cumbre de Valencia, Premnoplex brunnescens 

 rostratus, Cumbre de Valencia; Drymophila caudata Idagesi, Los Palmales, 

 Anden von Cumana; Chamccza brevicauda boliviana, Yungas, Bolivia. A 

 number of North American species were found wintering in the region 

 covered by Mr. Klages including Hylocichla alicioe alicia:, HelmirdhophUa 

 [= Vermivora] peregrina, Mniotilta varia, Dendroica striata, D. ccerulea, 

 Opotornis agilis, s, tophaga ruticilla and Piranga rubra rubra. — W. S. 



Hellmayr on Zonotrichia strigiceps Gould. 2 — Mr. Hellmayr 

 reviews the history of this little known finch and tabulates the specimens so 

 far obtained. He finds that they are separable into two races, Z. strigiceps 

 strigiceps ranging from Parana to Cordoba, in Brazil and Argentina, while 

 Z. s. dabbenei described as new is restricted to the mountains of north- 

 western Argentina. — W. S. 



Nelson on New Birds from Panama, Colombia and Ecuador.' — 



This paper comprises the new birds obtained by Mr. E. A. (ioldman on 

 Mount Pirri and vicinity in eastern Panama near the Colombian border, 

 from January to June, 1912, under the auspices of the Smithsonian Biologi- 

 cal Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. This mountain reaches an altitude 

 of 5,200 feet and as no zoological collector seems to have visited it previously, 

 new forms were naturally to be expected from its slopes. Besides the new 

 birds here described, many South American species were found which are 

 unknown farther north. The new forms named by Mr. Nelson are as 

 follows: Geotrygon goldmani, Chloronerpes chrysochlorus aurosus, Aulaco- 

 rhamphus cceruleigularis cognatus, Momotus conexus reconditus, Electron 

 platyrhynchns suboles, Eriocnemis floccus, Phwlhornis adolphei fraterculus, 



> Beitrage zur Oroithologie von Venezuela. Von ('. E. Hellmayr und .(. 

 Graf ven Seilern. I Die Vbgel der Cumbre de Valencia. Archiv fur Natur- 

 gescbichte. Vol. 7s. pp. 34 L66, September 20, 1912. 



i Bemerkungen Uber eine wenlg bekannte, neotropische Ammer (Zonotrichia 

 ttrigicept Gould). Verhandlungeii der Ornith. Gesellschaft in Bayern. XI, 

 pp. 187-190. July I, 1912. 



D( scrlptions of New Genera, species and Subspecies <>f" Hints from Panama. 

 Colombia and Ecuador. By E. W. Nelson. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collec- 

 tions, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp 1-25, Sept. 24 [ = 27], 1912. 



