114 Messrs. O. Salvin and F. DuCane Godman on the 
been recorded. Therefore it is quite likely that a somewhat 
intermediate form should be found in that locality, as my 
specimen seems to show. 
6. CHLORONERPES RUBIGINOSUs (Swains.). 
Of this bird I have received a great number of specimens 
from Orinoco or Trinidad (of a peculiar preparation), and a 
true Trinidad skin also. They are all very small in size; and 
all have a brownish or reddish suffusion on the breast (which 
is never the case in true C. canipileus), and have the uropy- 
gium of the same colour as the upper back, and unbanded, 
only the upper tail-coverts being banded. 
This form, I think, must be the true rudbiginosus of Swain- 
son, described as coming from the “ Spanish Main.” ‘Two 
specimens in my collection (male and female) from Merida 
are clearly not of this species, and are very little different 
from C. canipileus from Antioquia, &c., the dimensions being 
only slightly inferior; but they have the bill remarkably 
shorter, and the uropygium clear yellow and distinctly banded, 
just as in C. canipileus. 
I do not know whether the specimens from Caracas, spoken 
of by Sundevall, belong to the latter species or to the true C. 
rubiginosus. 
7. MELANERPES PULCHER, Sclater. 
A male of this species in my collection from Antioquia has 
the neck distinctly broad and beautifully golden-yellow, which 
is not recorded in Mr. Sclater’s original description, based on 
a specimen from Bogota. 
1X.—On the Birds of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, 
Colombia. By Osserr Satvin and F. DuCanz Gopmay. 
(Plate III.) 
Since our last paper on this subject was published (Ibis, 
1879, p. 196 et seqq.), Mr. Simons has sent us three more col- 
lections of birdskins from the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta 
and its vicinity. As will be seen im the following notes, a 
considerable proportion of the birds now sent were obtained 
