Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 187 

 Family HiEMATOPODID^. Oyster-catchers. 



io8. Haematopus palliatus palliatus Temminck. 



One specimen: Rio Hacha. 



A single specimen, the only one seen, was shot at the mouth of the 

 river at Rio Hacha on May 2, 1914. It has an extensive distribution 

 on the Atlantic coast of tropical America, but so far as we are aware 

 this seems to be the first record for Colombia. 



Family CEDICNEMID^. Thick-knees. 



109. CEdicnemus bistriatus vocifer L'Herminier. 



This species is admitted to the list on the strength of having been 

 observed (although not actually collected) by the junior author in the 

 savanna region along the trail northeast of Camperucho, where it was 

 common, in company with Belonopterus cayennensis cayennensis, on 

 August 8, 1920. A few had been noted at Rio Hacha in July also. 



Family JACANID^. Jacanas. 



Jacana spinosa spinosa (Linnaeus). 



Parra gymnostoma (not of Wagler) Sclater^ Proc. Z06I. Soc. London, " 1856," 



1857, 283 ("Santa Marta"). 



Probably the specimen upon which this record was based, like others re- 

 ceived through Verreaux, did not come from Santa Marta at all, but from 

 Panama. There are no authentic records for this species from South Amer- 

 ica (c/. Todd, Annals Carnegie Museum, X, 1916, 218-219), although Messrs. 

 Brabourne and Chubb {Birds of South America, I, 1912, 44), for reasons 

 ■which they fail to explain, use the name in place of /. jacana — a mistake un- 

 fortunately followed by Dr. Chapman {Bulletin American Museum of Natural 

 History, XXXVI, 1917, 225) in identifying a specimen from La Morelia, Co- 

 lombia. 



110. Jacana nigra (Gmelin). 



Parra melanopygia Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, " 1856," 1857, 283 

 ("Santa Marta"; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Verreaux; crit.). — Gray, Hand- 

 List Birds, III, 1871, 70 ("Santa Marta," in range). — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom.' Avium Neotrop., 1873, 142 (tange). — von Berlepsch, Journ. f. Orn., 

 XXXVII, 1889, 320 (" Santa Marta,'' ex Sclater). — ^Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, III, 1903, 341 ("Santa Marta," in range). 



Parra hypomeltena Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, " 1856," 1857, 283 

 ("Santa Marta"). — Gray, Hand-List Birds, III, 1871, 70 ("Santa Marta," 

 in range). — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Avium Neotrop., 1873, 142 (range). 



