264 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



107 (San Sebastian and Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta). — Bangs, Proc 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 173 (Macotama and San Miguel). — 

 Bangs, Proc. New England Z06I. Club, I, 1899, 76 (San Sebastian and 

 El Mamon). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 140 (Salvin 

 and Godman's and Bangs' references). 



Here as elsewhere throughout its extensive Andean range this fine 

 large hummingbird appears to inhabit the Subtropical Zone, reaching 

 up to the Temperate Zone at certain points. Simons took many speci- 

 mens at San Sebastian (6,700 feet), and some in the Sierra Nevada 

 as high as 10,000 feet. Mr. Brown secured it at Macotama and San 

 Miguel, and sent back no less than one hundred and thirty-eight speci- 

 mens from San Sebastian and El Mamon, on the south slope of the 

 Sierra Nevada — a circumstance sufficiently attesting its abundance 

 there. Notwithstanding, Mr. Carriker's collections do not contain a 

 single example of this species, for which fact it is hard to account. 

 He writes that a single individual was once seen between Macotama 

 and Taquina, feeding on the flowers of the sisal plant, out in the open. 

 It was exceedingly shy, and was shot at twice, but finally escaped en- 

 tirely. He has recently (November, 1920) encountered the species on 

 the summit of the San Lorenzo, associated with other Subtropical Zone 

 hummingbirds, about a large tree which was in flower-^at the time. 



211. Anthracothorax nigricollis nigricollis ( Vieillot) . 



Lampqrnis violicauda (not Trochilus violicauda Boddaert) Bangs, Proc. 



Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 135 ("Santa Marta"). — Allen, Bull. 



Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, igoo, 141 (Bonda, Cacagualito, and Masinga). 

 Anthracothorax nigricollis nigricollis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 



50, V, 191 1, 459 (Santa Marta localities and references). 



Nine specimens : Bonda, Don Amo, Cincinnati, and Fundacion. 



This wide-ranging South American hummingbird is probably only a 

 straggler as high up as Cincinnati, its regular range being in the Trop- 

 ical Zone lowlands and lower foothills of the north and west sides of 

 the San Lorenzo, there being no record for the Sierra Nevada proper. 

 It is partial to the more open woodland rather than the deep forest. 



212. Saucerottia saucerottei warscewiczi (Cabanis and Heine). 

 Saucerottia warszewiesi Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 173 (Santa Marta, 



Minca, and Valencia). 

 Pyrrhophaena warszewicsi von Behlepsch, Journ. f. Orn., XXXV, 1887, 

 336 (Santa Marta lex Salvin and Godman]). 



