Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 167 



Measurements. 



No. Sex. Locality. Wing. Tail. Bill. Tarsus. 



71456 1 ((?) Bonda 168 50 28 47 



92062 ji Bonda 166 51 28.5 43 



37062 (5) Bonda 167 52 28 45 



5001 3 "jj" (=5) " Santa Marta' (1800 ft.) 165 46.5 31 46 



The difference in color of the sexes corresponds to that in C. soui 

 and other species, and it is pretty certain that No. 5,001 of the above 

 table was wrongly determined. This is the specimen which Mr. 

 Bangs says " agrees exactly with the description of the species " 

 [columbianus], but a careful comparison of the present series with 

 the description in question discloses too many discrepancies to permit 

 the acceptance of this statement. Count Salva^ori's descriptions of 

 the various forms of this difficult group are unusually full and ac- 

 curate; judging by this circumstance, it is scarcely possible that his 

 type of columbianus could have been the same as the Santa Marta 

 bird. He compares his bird with C. houcardi, whereas the Santa 

 Marta form is more closely related to C. cinnamomeus of' Central 

 America and C. dissimilis of British Guiana. From the former it dif- 

 fers in its very much paler under surface, with grayer throat and 

 breast, more rufescent and more uniform back, and more rufescent 

 pileum; from the latter it differs in its paler under surface and the 

 conspicuous buffy barring of the wings and back. Messrs. Brabourne 

 and Chubb {Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8), XIV, 

 1914, 322) have described a tinamou from Venezuela under the name 

 Crypturus cinnamomeus spencei, the diagnosis of which, however, 

 scarcely fits our bird, which we therefore have no alternative but to 

 describe as new. Nothing is on record concerning its haunts or habits. 

 All four of the known specimens came from the Tropical Zone in the 

 vicinity of Santa Marta. Unfortunately Mr. Carriker failed to meet 

 with the species. 



Crypturornis adspersus (Temminck). 



('{)Crypturus adspersus Bonaparte, Tabl. parall. ordre Gallinacees, 1856, 12, 

 16 ("Santa Marta"; crit.).— Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXVII, 

 1895, 529 ("Santa Marta"; crit.). 

 Without examination of the specimen upon which the above record is based 



1 Collection American Museum of Natural History. 



2 Collection Carnegie Museum. 



3 Collection E. A. and 0. Bangs. 



