170 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



mentioned in Dr. Allen's description. Females are smaller than males, 

 and much more rufescent, especially below. 



It is obviously the Santa Marta representative of the recently de- 

 scribed Odontophorus variegatus {Proceedings Biological Society of 

 Washington, XXXII, 1919, 116), from the Eastern Andes. 



This is a Subtropical Zone species, found only in the dense forest 

 between 4,000 and 9,000 feet, but is a very rare bird everywhere within 

 its range. Mr. Smith's collector secured a single specimen at Val- 

 paraiso (Cincinnati), where also most of those taken by the writer 

 were secured. Its call is almost identical with that of the Wood Rail 

 (Aramides cajanea chiricote), for which, indeed, it was always tais- 

 taken until on one occasion when collecting on the Cerro de Caracas, 

 where one of the birds was secured in the very act of uttering this call. 

 It is a loud rattling note, and can be heard for some distance through 

 the forest. The bird is more often met with in pairs than in small 

 flocks, and is at all times exceedingly shy. 



Family CRACID^. Curassows. 

 71. Chamaepetes sanctse-marthae Chapman. 



ChamiBpetes goudoti (not Ortalida goudotii Lesson) Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 126 (El Libano and Valparaiso). 



ChanuBpetes sanctcE-martha Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXI, 1912, 

 141 (El Libano; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.). — Apolinar 

 Maria, Bol. Soc. Cien. Nat. Inst. La Salle, II, 1914, 244 (ref. orig. descr.). 



Twenty-six specimens : El Libano, Las Taguas, Sierra Nevada de 

 Santa Marta (6,000 feet). Las Vegas, Cincinnati, San Lorenzo, Cerro 

 de Caracas, Paramo de Mamarongo, San Miguel, and Heights of 

 Chirua. 



Although obviously related to C. goudotii, this species is very dis- 

 tinct, and only confused with that form by Dr. Allen because of the 

 inadequacy of the description in Volume XXlt of the Catalogue of the 

 Birds in the British Museum. Upon the receipt of topotypical mate- 

 rial from the interior of Colombia Dr. Chapman at once recognized 

 the distinctness of the Santa Marta bird and provided it with a name. 



Two chicks (Nos. 8,802-3), secured April 23, may be thus described: 

 general color chocolate-brown, below paler; middle Of breast and ab- 

 domen, and a short line on the flanks buffy white; superciliaries, be- 

 ginning in front of the eye and joining behind to form a collar around 



