236 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 134 ("Santa Marta")- — 

 Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XUI, 1900-, 137 (Bonda, Valparaiso, and 

 EI Libano). 

 Scapaneus malherbii Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 172 

 (Santa Marta localities and references; meas.). 



Nineteen specimens : Bonda, Las Nubes, La Tigrera, Las Vegas, 

 Minca, Cincinnati, and Fundacion. 



With a fair series of specimens, representing various localities in 

 Bolivia', French Guiana, Venezuela, and the interior of Colombia, at 

 our command, we find that intergradation between 5". melanoleucos and 

 S. malherbii is complete, necessitating the reduction of the latter to 

 subspecific rank. There is usually a trace of black on the lores of 

 the male, indicating its close affinity to the other form. No. 41,923, 

 La Tigrera, May 8, is a female in juvenal dress, with the barring be- 

 low less distinct, more like spotting, especially posteriorly; the lores 

 and malar stripe are buffy brownish white, and the crest is shorter. 



A fairly common and very conspicuous species of the Tropical and 

 lower part of the Subtropical Zones, ranging from sea-level up to 

 6,600 feet on the San Lorenzo, and possibly to about the same altitude 

 in the Sierra Nevada, where, however, the writer has never met with 

 it above 3,000 feet. 



181. CeopMoeus lineatus mesorhynchus Cabanis and Heine. 



Ceophlceus lineatus (not Picus lineatus Linnaeus) Haegitt, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., XVIII, 1890, 508 ("Santa Marta")- — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. 



Washington, XII, 1898,. 134 ("Santa Marta"). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 



Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 136 (Minca and Valparaiso). 

 Ceophlaus lineatus mesorhynchus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. S"- 



VI, 1914, 148 (Santa Marta localities and references; meas.). — Chapman, 



Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, 356 ("Santa Marta"; crit). 



Additional records: Cienaga (Univ. Mich. Exp.); San Antonio 

 ( Brown) . • 



Three specimens : Bonda and Pueblo Viejo. 



This form was based on Costa Rican specimens, with which the 

 above agree. It differs from typical lineatus in average smaller size, 

 more decidedly buffy suffusion of the under parts, darker colored bill, 

 and in particular in the heavier streaking of the throat. The barring 

 of the under parts is also more frequently broken up into spots, but 

 this is not the case with every individual. 



This must be a rare bird here, for although the writer was on the 



