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tonic, in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta at an altitude of S,ooo feet. 

 In describing it he did not indicate its exact systematic position, but 

 later on, following Bonaparte, he placed it in Adelomyia, while Reich- 

 enbach referred it to Metallura. A few years later Cabanis and 

 Heine made it the type of a new genus, Anthocephala, where by com- 

 mon consent it has remained ever since, but unfortunately this name 

 is preoccupied in Vermes (with a masculine termination, however), 

 and has recently been replaced by Simonula ^^ Chubb {Birds of British 

 Guiana, I, 1916, 413). The species continued to be known from the 

 type alone (a male) until 1881, when Salvin and Godman reported the 

 capture of a second specimen, a female, by Simons at San Jose, March 

 30, 1880. Two other examples listed under this species by Salvin in 

 1892 proved to belong to a different one, shortly described as A. ber- 

 lepschi. Mr. Brown took a single male at Pueblo Viejo on his first 

 trip, and later on succeeded in securing no less than nine additional 

 specimens from various points in the Subtropical Zone of the Sierra 

 Nevada. Mr. Smith secured a single specimen at Valparaiso (Cin- 

 cinnati). To the above list of specimens we now add four more, 

 making seventeen in all. 



A rare bird, usually found in the forest, or in smaller tracts of 

 woodland. The only .localities in the San Lorenzo district for which 

 there are any records are in the vicinity of Cincinnati, at about 4,000 

 to S,ooo feet elevation. In the Sierra Nevada, however, it ranges 

 lower down, from 2,000 to 5,500 feet. It was noted, but not secured, 

 at San Miguel, feeding from the blossoms of a banana. As a rule it 

 keeps rather low down, feeding about the flowers in the undergrowth. 



193. Chrysolampis elatus (Linnaeus). 



Chrysolampis moschitus (not Trochilus mosguitus Linnaeus) Allen, Bull. Am. 



Mus. Nat. Hist, XIII, igoo, 140 (Bonda). 

 Chrysolampis mosquitus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 1911, 



666 (Bonda, in range; meas.). 



Nine specimens : Bonda, Don Diego, Cincinnati, and Dibulla. 



Of this widely distributed Tropical Zone species three specimens 

 were taken in June at Cincinnati, where they were feeding from the 

 flowers of the guamas (shade-trees for coffee). At Dibulla two were 

 taken, while Mr. Smith secured a series at Bonda and Don Diego. We 



32 5. " chloriceps " is named as the type, but this is of course a mere slip 

 of the pen for fioriceps. 



