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decidedly more rufescent than the other two from the Sierra Nevada, 

 taken in March and April, so that due allowance must be made for 

 seasonal variation in comparing this with other forms. It appears to 

 be so closely allied to G. rufula of the Colombian Andes that its rela- 

 tionship thereto is best expressed by a trinomial. Practically the only 

 constant difference between them is in the color of the abdomen, which 

 is soiled white in spatiator, and decidedly buffy in rufula. Measure- 

 ments of these, three specimens are as follows : 



No. Sex. Locality. Date. 



37917 ? San Lorenzo July 16, 1911 .. 



45155 c? Cerro de Caracas ...March 30, 1914 



45223 2 Cerro de Caracas ....'Vpril 4, 1914 .. 



This is one of the rarest species of the family in the Santa Marta 

 region, and frequents the most inaccessible cover. The records indi- 

 cate that it is a species which inhabits the lower elevations of the 

 Temperate Zone. The type' and heretofore the only known specimen 

 was secured by Mr. Brown at Macotama, at 8,000 feet. The writer 

 took one female on the San Lorenzo at about the same altitude, in the 

 thickest kind of growth of bromelias, ferns, and shrubbery. It was 

 only by accident that this particular bird was secured, since while 

 climbing a steep hillside over a recently cut trail it suddenly darted 

 across the way about fifteen feet ahead, and was brought down with a 

 snap-shot. Three years later two others, male and female, were se- 

 cured near the top of the ridge at the Cerro de Caracas at 9,000 feiet 

 under very similar circumstances. The species seems to have no spe- 

 cial call-note so far as known at present, nor will it come to any call, 

 so that it is only by the most' careful kind of still-hunting that it can 

 be secured at all. 



252. Grallaria regulus carmelitse Todd. 



Grallaria varia carmelita Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXVIII, 1915, 

 81 (Pueblo Viejo; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Carnegie Mus.). — Apolinar 

 Maria, BoI. Soc. Cien. Nat. Inst. Lai Salle, III, 1915, 88 (ref. orig. descr.). 



Two specimens: Pueblo Viejo. 



At the time the preliminary diagnosis of this form was published no 

 specimens of Grallaria regulus were available, and Dr. Oberholser, to 

 whom the specimens were sent for comparison, reported that they rep- 



