, Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 207 



Dutch West Indies, is certainly a very different looking bird from the 

 present form, the two are connected by an unbroken chain of interme- 

 diate, intergrading fofms, and 'are therefore provisionally regarded as 

 conspecies. The inter-relationships of the various races of this group 

 present some interesting questions, and will be discussed on another 

 occasion. 



This paroquet is a . common resident in the littoral Tropical Zone 

 from Dibulla eastward into the Goajira Peninsula. It is more abun- 

 dant at Rio Hacha than at Dibulla, evidently preferring the more arid 

 region. Wyatt speaks lOf having shot it also in the cactus thickets 

 near Cienaga, south of Santa Marta, and it has been obtained at the 

 same locality in 1913 by the University of Michigan party. On the 

 opposite side of the Sierra Nevada, on the edge of the Goajira coun- 

 try, there are recent records of observation for Arroya de Arenas, 

 Fonseca, and south even to the savannas of Valencia. 



133. Aratinga wagleri (Gray). 



Comirus wagleri Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, zo6 (Atanquez). — Sal- 

 vADORi, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XX, 1891, 184 (Atanquez). — Bangs, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 172 (Paloraina and San Miguel). — Allen, 

 Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, XIII, 1900, 132 (Valparaiso). 



Additional records: La Concepcion, Chirua, San Antonio (Brown). 



Two specimens : Las Taguas and Las Vegas. 



One of these has the lower part of the tibiae tinged with red, while 

 in the other they are wholly green. The same variation occurs in 

 Venezuelan examples of this species, which are otherwise precisely like 

 the above. 



On the north and west slopes of the San Lorenzo this paroquet is 

 found only as a rare straggler. It was not rare, however, in the vicin- 

 ity of Las Vegas, on the east slope, feeding in the valley below and 

 roosting on the mountainside above the hacienda. On6 was taken 

 also at Las Taguas, on the south slope of the mountain. In the Sierra 

 Nevada Mr. Brown took a series of specimens from various points on 

 the north slope, while Simons found it at Atanquez on the south slope. 

 The writer saw the bird several times between San Miguel and Maco- 

 tama, and shot one from a flock flying over the valley, but it fell into 

 the gorge below and could. not be found. All of the locality records 

 for the present species in this region lie in the upper part of the Trop- 

 ical or else in the Subtropical Zone. 



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