Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 253 



sive range. It is true that Mr. Ridgway (Proceedings Biological So- 

 ciety of Washington, XXIII, 1910, 55) has described the Tobago bird 

 as distinct on account of its supposed larger size, but some of the 

 Santa Marta specimens above listed are fully as large. Some indi- 

 viduals are more or less glossed with bronzy above, while others are 

 plain dark green. 



Another Tropical Zone hummingbird, fairly common from the edge 

 of the foothills back of Santa Marta up to 5,000 feet at Cincinnati. 

 Probably it goes up to the altitude of Cincinnati only to feed on the 

 guamas, for at other times it is scarcely seen above 2,500 feet. It 

 was common in the forested lowlands at Don Diego and DibuUa, on 

 the north coast, and fairly common also at Loma Larga, in the eastern 

 part, but less numerous on the west side of the Sierra Nevada, at 

 Tucurinca. It is entirely a forest-dweller, and partial to the vicinity 

 of water, always being seen near or over some small stream in the 

 forest. 



199. Lafresnaya lafresnayi liriope Bangs. 



Lafresnayea gayi (not Trochilus gayi Bourcier and Mulsant) Salvin, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, 327 (San Jose). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. See. 



Washington, XIII, 1899, 94 (Macotama, San Miguel, and Paramo de Chiru- 



qua). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 138 (Salvin and 



Bangs' references). 

 Lafresnayea liriope Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXIII, 1910. 105 



(Paramo de Chiruqua, 11,000 ft.; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Mus. 



Comp. Z06I.). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 131 (ref. 



orig. descr.; range). — Cory, Field Mus. Z06I. Series, XIII, 1918, 249 (ref. 



orig. descr. ; range) . 

 Lafresnayea gayi liriope Simon, Cat. Fam. Trochilidas, 1921, 160 (descr.), 358 



(references; range). 



One specimen : San Miguel. 



This individual is an immature male, as shown by the buffy upper 

 throat, spangled with green. It agrees in other respects with the type 

 and one other male specimen in the collection of Mr. Bangs, but the 

 status of the form represented by these birds is open to question. It 

 was described as intermediate between the two recognized species of 

 the genus, having the straight bill and more bronzy central rectrices 

 of L. lafresnayi, and the white outer rectrices of L. saul. Now, it so 

 happens that the difference in the shape of the bill between these two 

 species to which Mr. Bangs alludes simply does not exist, as shown by 



