276 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



referred it to D. lafresnayei, a species, described by Mr. Ridgway from 

 a specimen in the Lafresnaye collection supposed to have come from 

 the " Upper Amazon," but which must have really come from some 

 place in western or northern Colombia, as indicated by Mr. Hellmayr. 

 Dr. Chapman now proposes to make Valparaiso {i.e., Cincinnati) the 

 accepted type-locality for the form, to which there certainly can be 

 no objection. 



This is a bird of the Tropical Zone, and is probably the most com- 

 mon and widespread species of the family in the Santa Marta region, 

 ranging from sea-level up to S,ooo feet, but more abundant in the low- 

 lands of the northeast and southwest sides of the Sierra Nevada. It 

 is a forest-dweller entirely, and is gregarious in its habits, being rarely 

 seen alone, but rather in pairs, small flocks, or in company with other 

 kinds. It is one of the species which are invariably seen following 

 the swarms of foraging ants in the forest, feeding on the insects which 

 are thus driven out of the rubbish on the ground. 



225. Campylorhamphus trochilirostris venezuelensis (Chapman). 

 Two specimens : Valencia. 



A single pair of birds were taken at Valencia on August 7, 1920, 

 these constituting the first record of a Campylorhamphus for this re- 

 gion. They agree closely with Venezuelan specimens. 



Sittasomus sylvioides levis Bangs (?). 



Sitiasomus olivaceus (not of Wied) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 202 



(Manaure). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XV, 1890, 119 (ManaureJ. — 



Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, XIII, 1900, 157 (Salvin and Godman's 



reference) . 



The only record for a Sittasomus in the vicinity of our region is that 

 quoted above, referring to a single specimen shot by Simons at Manaure, 

 May 7, 1878. This example was referred to S. olivaceus both by Salvin and 

 Godman and by Sclater, but as the latter author confused several easily dis- 

 tinguishable forms under that name it is impossible to be sure to which of 

 these the bird in question belongs without actual examination. The chances 

 are, however, that it will turn out to be 5. sylvioides levis, described from 

 Chiriqui, of which there is a perfectly typical example in the Carnegie Mu- 

 seum collection from Jaraquiel, Bolivar, Colombia. 



226. Thripobrotus lacrymiger sanctae-marthae (Chapman). 



Picolaptes lacrymiger (not Dendrocolaptes lacrymiger Des Murs) Salvin 

 and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 171 (San Sebastian). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 



