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No more were there, as the whole tract was gone over as with a comb. 

 Another individual was seen on the Paramo de Chiruqua at about 

 14,000 feet altitude, where it was flushed twice, shot at once, and in 

 the end escaped quite unharmed. The Paramo Zone is of course the 

 regular range of this species, but towards the end of the dry season, 

 when the paramos become so dry, the birds move downwards in search 

 of food. This would account for the presence of the one at Taquina 

 (7,000 feet), as well as for their scarcity on the paramos at the time 

 of the writer's visit.- . 



103. Capella delicata (Ord). 



Three specimens : Taquina and Pueblo Viejo. 



One was shot at Pueblo Viejo on March 17, and two at Taquina, in 

 a bit of grassy marsh on the table-land, on March 29, 1914. In addi- 

 tion it was seen at Fundacion in October, and at Cincinnati, also late 

 in October. It is doubtless a winter resident, but is not abundant in 

 this region, as observed in Costa Rica and Venezuela, for instance. 



Family CHARADRIID^. Plovers. 



104. Charadrius coUaris Vieillot. 



Mgialitis collaris Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, 747 (" Santa 

 Marta"). — Allen, BuH. Am. Hus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 126 (Cienaga). 



Eleven specimens : Cienaga, Don Diego, Punto Caiman, Gaira, and 

 Fundacion. 



This little plover is common along the sea-beach and salt-water 

 lagoons, wherever there are any stretches of sandy beach. Specimens 

 are quite indistinguishable from Bolivian examples. 



105. Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte. 



Six specimens : Buritaca, Cienaga, Gaira, and Don Diego. 



No. 43,098, September 13, shows moult in progress in the remiges, 

 rectrices, and pectoral band, and Nos. 43,291-2, October 18, show 

 mpult in the latter, which is changing to black. But Nos. 44,357 and 

 44,380, taken much later in the season (January 15 and 16) show no 

 signs of moult, and the pale edgings of the feathers of the upper parts 

 have almost worn off. 



The Semipalmated Plover is usually found in company with its rela- 

 tive C. coUaris, and like it occurs inland as well as coastwise, wherever 



