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Five adults from Bogota . . . Wing 74-75; tail 62-65 ; bill 15-1 6 mm. 

 Three adults from Antioquia (Santa 



Elena) Wing 75-79 ; tail 63-67 ; bill 16-18 mm. 



One adult male from Baeza, East 



Ecuador Wing 79 ; tail 65 ; bill 17 mm. 



One adult female from Baeza, East 



Ecuador Wing 75 ; tail 62 ; bill 16 mm. 



Two adult males from Western 



Ecuador (Gualea, Milligalli) . Wing 76, 77 ; tail 63, 64 ; bill 17-18 mm. 



50. Hylophilus brunneus Allen = Myrmotherula schisticolor sanctae- 



martae Allen ? ! 



[Formicivora schisticolor Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. H. viii. p. 173 (1865 Turrialba, Costa Rica).] 

 Myrmotheiida sanctae-martae Allen, Bull. A/mr. Mus. N. H. xiii. p. 160 (1900. Valparaiso, Santa 



Marta, Colombia ; descr. ^ ad.) 

 Ilijlophilus brunneus Allen, I.e. p. 171 (1900. LasNubes, Santa Marta, Colombia ; de,scr. ?). 



No. 1. American Museum Nat. Hist. No. 70,572 " ? " ad. Las Nubes, 

 Colombia, December 14, 1898. Santa Marta Expedition 1898-99. Type of 

 Hylophilus brunneus Allen. 



Wing 57 ; tail 41 ; bill 14 mm. 



This specimen is, without doubt, a female of M. s. sanctae-martae , and agrees in 

 every particular with an example from Los Palmales, Andes of Cumana (Bermudez, 

 N.E. Venezuela) in the Tring Museum. In both, the lower surface of the body is 

 dull ochraceous, darkening to brownish on the sides, but the type has the throat of 

 a rather brighter tinge. The forehead, lores and sides of face are conspicuously 

 washed with ochreous, the back is greyish olive, the wing-coverts and remiges are 

 edged with olive-brown, exactly as in the Venezuelan bird. The maxilla is 

 blackish, the mandible dingy horny whitish. 



Venezuelan specimens measure as follows: wing 56-58| ; tail 39-42; bill 

 13-14 mm. Thus, it will be seen that there is no difference in size either. 



M. schisticolor sanctae-martae is as yet only known from the Caribbean Coast- 

 mountains of Venezuela and Colombia. Cfr. Hellmayr and Seilern, Archiv f. 

 Naturg. 78, Abt. A. Heft. 5, September 1912, pp. 124-5. 



51. Chlorospingus canipileus Chapm. = Basileuterus griseiceps Scl. & Salv. 



Basileutertts griseiceps Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. Loud. 1868, p. 170 (1868." Venezuela, in sylvis 

 Caripensibus," sc. Caripe, Andes of Cumand,, Bermudez, N.E. Venezuela). 



Chlorospingus (Hemispingus) canipileus Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. N.H. xii. p. 153 (Aug. 1899. 

 Los Palmales, Andes of Cumana). 



No. 1. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 70,349. Adult (not sexed). Orig. label : 

 " 3. Dec. 1898, Los Palmales, No. 36. Shot in low, dense scrub on border of forest, 

 generally met in pairs. Iris brown." Type of Chlorospingus canipileus Chapm. 



Wing 63; tail 61 ; bill 15 mm. 



This bird is practically identical with the type in the British Museum and two 

 others from the same district at Tring. The wing varies from 61 to 64, the tail 

 measures 60, the bill 15 mm. None of the specimens being sexed, I cannot say 

 whether there is any sexual difference in size, but as far as coloration is concerned 

 the four skins* agree very well together. 



B. griseiceps appears to be most nearly allied to B. leucoblepkarus, from 

 Southern Brazil and Paraguay. In both species, the crown and nape are dark 



* I am not aware of the existence of other specimens than the above. 



