1900.] Allen, List of Birds from Santa Marta, Colombia. 15 J 



198. Machetornis rixosa (Vieill). 

 One specimen, Cacagualito, May 28. 



199. Fluvicola pica (Bodd.}. 

 Two specimens, Cienaga, Sept. 8 and 9. 



200. Sayornis cineracea (Lafr.}. 



Sayornis cineracea SALV. & GODM. Ibis, 1879, 201 (San Jose); BANGS, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Wash. XII, 1898, 135 and 174 (Santa Marta and San Miguel); ibid. 

 Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club, I, 1900, 78 (San Sebastian). 



Two specimens, Cacagualito, June i, and Onaca, Dec. 27. 

 201. [Ochthceca poliogastra Salv. & Godm. 



Ochthceca poliogastra SALV. & GODM. Ibis, 1880, 123 (Sierra Nevada de Santa 

 Marta, type locality); BANGS, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XII, 1898, 174 (Maco- 

 tama); ibid. XIII, 1899, 96 (Sierra Nevada, " at all stations between 9000 and 

 i2,xx)O feet. 



Probably not found much below 9000 feet, as it was not taken 

 by Mr. Smith's collectors.] 



202. Ochthceca jesupi, 1 sp. nov. 



Type, No. 72727, ? ad., San Lorenzo, altitude 7000 feet, May 12, 1899 ; 

 coll. H. H. Smith. 



Above olive, with a slight tinge of dusky on the head ; clear olive on nape and 

 anterior part of back, passing into brownish olive on the lower back, rump and 

 upper tail-coverts ; wings and tail dusky, the feathers narrowly edged with olive 

 on the tail and with brownish olive on the wings ; greater coverts narrowly 

 tipped with brownish, forming a barely recognizable wing-bar ; superciliaries 

 and a narrower frontal band yellow, the superciliaries broad in front of the eyes, 

 much narrower behind the eyes ; lores blackish ; ear-coverts dusky tinged with 

 olive ; below throat and breast greenish yellow, passing into clear strong yel- 

 low over the abdomen and crissum ; flanks olive tinged more or less with yellow. 

 Bill black, feet horn color. Wing, 55 mm. ; tail, 49 ; tarsus, 17 ; culmen, 9. 



While Ochthceca jesupi is very distinct from any other described 

 species of the genus it finds its nearest ally in O. gratiosa Sclater 

 from Ecuador, from which it differs in being olive instead of 

 brown above, with rather yellower under parts, narrower frontal 



1 Named in honor of Morris K. Jesup, Esq., President of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, to whom the Museum is endebted for the fine collection of Colombian birds 

 of which this species forms a part. 



