Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 237 



watch for it continuously and killed many specimens of Scapaneus mel- 

 anoleucos malherbii by mistake for it, he secured but one specimen, at 

 Pueblo Viejo. The available records indicate that it is mainly a bird 

 of the foothills and lower mountain slopes of the Tropical Zone. 



182. Chrysoptilus punctigula ujhelyii von Madarasz. 



Chrysopiilus guttatus (not Picus guttatus Spix) Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., XVIII, 1890, H7 (" Santa Marta "). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



XIII, I goo, 136 (Cienaga). 

 Chrysoptilus ujhelyii von Madarasz, Orn. Monatsber., XX, 1912, 97 (Aracataca; 



orig, descr. ; type in coll. Budapest Mus.). — Brabouene and Chubb, Birds 



S. Am., I, 1912, 171 (ref. orig. descr.; range). , 



Chrysoptilus punctigula ujhelyii Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIII, 



1914, 612 ("Santa Marta"; diag.). — Cory, Field Mus. Orn. Series, I, 1915, 



306 (Aracataca, in range; diag.). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



XXXVI, 1917, 349 ("Santa Marta"; crit.). 



Four specimens : Fundacion. 



This form, which occupies the lower Magdalena basin, west along 

 the coast to the Rio Sinu, whence we have specimens, is apparently 

 most closely related to C. p. striatigularis Chapman {Bulletin Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, XXXIII, 1914, 611), but differs in 

 having the posterior under parts paler, with the spots smaller, while 

 the bars on the back, wings, and tail are narrower and less distinct. 



The type-specimen was collected by Mr. J. Ujhelyi at Aracataca, 

 between Fundacion and Tucurinca, in January, 1912, and promptly 

 named for this party by Dr. von Madarasz, into whose hands it fell. 

 Mr. Smith had previously collected a single bird at Cienaga, which is 

 probably the extreme limit of its range in this direction. It seems to 

 be confined to the Tropical Zone lowlands around the Cienaga Grande. 

 The four shot at Fundacion were all that were seen; they were met 

 with in rather heavy woodland. 



183. Chloronerpes chrysochloros aurosus Nelson. 



Four specimens : Fundacion, Don Diego, and Tucurinca. 



Up to date this form has been known only from the type, described 

 from eastern Panama. The specimens here recorded, together with 

 two more from Gamarra, Colombia, have been compared with the 

 type and found to agree, most of the characters assigned by Mr. Nel- 

 son proving constant on comparison with an equal series of true 

 chrysochloros from Bolivia and Argentina. Indeed, aurosus is a de- 



