268 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



zuela, and while it is true that in the former the middle rectrices aver- 

 age more greenish, and in the latter more bronzy, so many specimens 

 are indistinguishable that there does not seem to be sufficient ground 

 for their separation. 



A common bird in the more humid lowlands of the north coast, as 

 well as in the foothills back of Santa Marta, going up to 4,500 feet 

 at least. It was noted at Loma Larga on the east side, but was not 

 observed anywhere in the lowlands on the southwest side of the Sierra 

 Nevada. Around La Tigrera and Don Diego it was particularly 

 abundaat. It always keeps low down in the forest, and is very partial 

 to the flowers of the wild plantain as a source of food. 



216. Hylocharis cyanus viridiventris von Berlepsch. 



Hylocharis cyanea (not Tro^hilus cyanus Vieillot) Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. 



Washington, XII, 1898, 135 ("Santa Marta"). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 



Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 138 (Bonda, Cacagualito, and Jordan). 



Additional records: Las Vegas (Carriker). 



Twenty-six specimens: Buritaca, Don Amo, Dibulla, Don Diego, 

 and Loma Larga. 



A very distinct subspecies, described originally from Venezuela, 

 which appears to have entered the Santa Marta region from the north- 

 east, and is unknown in any other part of Colombia. It is the most 

 abundant hummingbird at Don Diego and Dibulla, but is confined 

 strictly to the forest and the shade-trees on the cacao plantations. It 

 is a rare bird so far west as Santa Marta, but there are a few speci- 

 mens collected in that vicinity by Messrs. Brown and Smith. 



217. Campylopterus phainopeplus Salvin and Godman. 

 Campylopterus phainopeplus Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 202 (San Jose 



[type-locality], Atanquez, San Sebastian, San Miguel, and Sierra Nevada 

 up to 15,000 ft.; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.; range, habits, 

 ex Simon). — Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. f. Orn., XXVII, 1879, 429 

 (reprint orig. descr.). — Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 171, pi. 4, fig. i 

 (San Sebastian). — d'Hamonville, Bull. Soc. Z06I.' France, VIII, 1883, 78 

 (descr.; crit). — Shaepe, in. Gould's Mon. Trochilidae, Supplement, 1883, 

 pi. [3] and text (descr., habits, etc., ex Salvin and Godman). — von Bee- 

 LEPSCH, Journ. f. Orn., XXXV, 1887, 316, footnote, and 335 (" Santa 

 Marta"). — Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, 294 (Atanquez, San 

 Jose, and San Sebastian; descr.; references). — Simon, Cat. Fam. Trochil- 

 ides, 1897, 8 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in range). — Simon, Feuille 

 des Jeunes Naturalistes, (3), XXVII, 1897, 88 (Sierra Nevada de Santa 



