226 Annals of the Caknegie Museum. 



Megaceryle alcyon alcyon (Linnaeus). 



Ceryle alcyon Sharpe, Cat.. Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 125 ("Santa 



Marta ").^-Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., II, 1895, 472 ("Santa 



Marta," in range, ex Sharpe). 



A specimen in the, British Museum (received from the Tweeddale Collection), 

 purporting to have come from Santa Marta, is the only record for the Belted 

 Kingfisher for Colombia, and one of the very few from South America, this 

 being beyond its normal winter range. 



165. Megaceryle torquata torquata (Linnaeus). 



Ceryle torquata Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 174 (Rio Manzanares). — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 121 (Santa Marta). — Bangs, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 133 ("Santa Marta"). — Allen^ 

 Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 136 (Bonda). 



Seven specimens : Bonda and Punto Caiman. 



The Punto Caiman specimen is albinistic, having many white feath- 

 ers among the rufous ones of the under surface. Some of the speci- 

 mens show a good deal of white on the secondaries in the form of 

 spots, as in M. t. stictipennis. 



Simons took a single specimen of this species along the Rio Manza- 

 nares near Santa Marta. Mr. Brown and Mr. Smith secured a few 

 in this same section, and the writer shot a single example at Punto 

 Caiman. It is found only in the lowlands about the lagoons and larger 

 streams. 



Family BUCCONID^. Puffbirds. 



166. Nonnula frontalis pallescens Todd. 



Nonnula frontalis pallescens Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXXII, 1919, 

 116 (Fundacion; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Carnegie Mus.). 



Seven specimen^ : Fundacion and Tucurinca. 



Three specimens from the State of Santander, Colombia, corres- 

 ponding closely to the original description of Malacoptila frontalis 

 Sclater (described from the " interior of Colombia") show that the 

 bird of the coast region is a strongly marked form, differing in the 

 much paler coloration of the under surface. In the typical form the 

 throat and breast are rich ochraceous tawny, passing into bufify pos- 

 teriorly and into white on the under tail-coverts, while in the new form 

 the throat and breast are cinnamon buff or clay-color, and the abdomen 

 as well as the under tail-coverts nearly white. The upper parts are 

 the same in both. Males average a little more richly colored below 



