Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 239 



Twenty-four specimens: Valparaiso, Cincinnati, San Lorenzo, Las 

 Taguas, Las Vegas, San Miguel, and Chirua. 



The first specimens of a Chloronerpes hailing from this region were 

 referred to the Central American form, uropygidis, by both Dr. Allen 

 and Mr. Bangs, but shortly thereafter the acquisition of a good series 

 ,of the latter race induced Mr. Bangs to describe the Santa Marta 

 form as distinct. Not all of the characters he assigns hold good in 

 the above series. For instance, there is considerable variation, ap- 

 parently of a purely individual nature, in the extent of the brownish 

 area on the inner webs of the outer rectrices. Again, the barring of 

 these feathers is a very inconstant feature, varying greatly in charac- 

 ter and extent in different individuals. Taken as a whole, however, 

 the series is conspicuously different, not only from C. r. uropygialis, 

 but also from any other of the numerous races into which this wide- 

 ranging and unusually plastic species has been divided. It is much 

 brighter, more suffused with golden orange, above than true rubigi- 

 nosus, and has the red patch on the head wider, while the dark bars on 

 the under surface are more dusky, less greenish, and the outer rectrices 

 have more or less brown on their inner webs. The two characters last 

 named also serve to distinguish it from the form inhabiting the region 

 immediately to the southward, in the State of Santander, Colombia. 



This woodpecker was found most abundantly on the slopes of the 

 San Lorenzo between 4,000 and 7,000 feet, nearly always in the heavy 

 forest, but rarely out in the coffee-plantations in the guama trees. In 

 the Sierra Nevada it ranges somewhat lower down, mainly between 

 3,000 and 5,000 feet, but may be considered essentially a species of the 

 Subtropical Zone. It was found breeding at San Miguel (5,500 feet) 

 near our camp, but few were seen above that altitude. Mr. Brown, 

 however, met with it as high up as San Sebastian (6,600 feet), on the 

 south slope of the mountains. 



185. Centurus rubricapillus rubricapillus Cabanis. 



Centurus subelegans (not of Bonaparte) Sclater, Proc. Zool. See. London, 



1855, 162 ("Santa Marta"). 

 Centurus tricolor (not Picus tricolor Gmelin) Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 115, 381 



(Santa Marta). — Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 205 (Valle de Upar) ; 



1880, 174 (Santa Marta). 

 Melanerpes tricolor Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVIII, 1890, 174 (Valle 



de Upar). 



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