Todd-Carriker ; Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 193 



Tigrera. It had been noted by him only in the lower foothills back of 

 Santa Marta (and is apparently a rare bird in these parts), up to the 

 summer of 1920, when it was again encountered, this time on the other 

 side of the Sierra Nevada, below Loma Larga, and later at Fonseca 

 and Valencia. 



116. Chamaepelia^' rufipennis rufipennis Bonaparte. 



Chamapelia rufipennis Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 178 (Santa Marta). — 



Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 487 (Santa Marta). 

 Columbigallina rufipennis Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 132 



("Santa Marta"). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 128 



(Bonda, Masinga Vieja, and Cienaga) ; XXI, 1905, 280 (Bonda; descr. nest 



and eggs). 

 Chamepelia rufipennis rufipennis Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VIII, 1913, 586, 



602 (Santa Marta references and localities; crit.). — Chapma'n, Bull. Am. 



Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIV, 1915, 367, in text (Santa Marta [region] ; crit.). 



— RiDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VII, 1916, 424 (Santa Marta 



localities and references; meas.). 



Additional records: Fundacion (Univ. Mich. Exp.). 



Twelve specimens : Bonda, Buritaca, Don Diego, Mamatoco, and 

 Santa Marta. 



A young female in juvenal dress is dated October g. This specimen 

 shows the squamate character of the plumage very distinctly, but at a 

 later stage (first winter plumage), after this light feather-tipping is 

 lost, the bird corresponds very closely to the description of C. rufipen- 

 nis cauccE Chapman (Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, 

 XXXIV, 191 5, 367). We have specimens from Venezuela answering 

 the description of caucce perfectly, and certainly a much larger series of 

 specimens will be required to demonstrate its validity. 



A common bird throughout the lowlands, being much more numerous 

 in fact than C. passerina alhivitta, and present in the forested portions 

 wherever clearings have been made. Mr. Brown secured specimens at 

 Pueblo Viejo, Chirua, and La Concepcion, localities on the north slope 



29 The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature {Smithsonian 

 Institution Publication No. 2256, 1914, 145) has decided that the original or- 

 thography of this particular generic name is to be altered to conform to what 

 was the evident intention of its proposer. This decision, although by no means 

 unanimous, implies that an author has the right to correct a typographical 

 error or lapsus calami affecting a name proposed by him in an earlier publi- 

 cation, even if not " evident " at the time. Such a decision denotes a gratify- 

 ing tendency to use common sense in applying the rules of nomenclature. 



