302 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



series from Venezuela in the collection of the Carnegie Museum. 

 There is a slight variation in color, however, some individuals being a 

 little more rufescent than others. 



This handsome little ant-thrush is rather rare and found only at 

 certain favbred localities. Mr. Brown took it first at Pueblo Viejo, 

 and later at Chirua. By the writer it was met with first at Las Vegas, 

 where it was not uncommon in the very humid forest between 4,000 

 and 5,000 feet, the so-called " cloud belt." Only one was taken at 

 Cincinnati, at the same altitude. At Pueblo Viejo five were taken in 

 the same tract of forest in which Grallaria regulus carmelitce was 

 found, at only about 2,000 feet elevation. While essentially a bird of 

 the Subtropical Zone, it extends down into the upper part of the Trop- 

 ical under favorable circumstances. It is found as a rule in the more 

 open parts of the forest, tha:t is, where it is freer of undergrowth^ and 

 is usually seen perched in low trees or shrubs. It is not very shy, and 

 when once seen is easy to secure. 



A nest and two partly incubated eggs of this handsome little ant- 

 thrush were taken on the plantation of the writer at Cincinnati, at an 

 altitude of 5,500 feet, on October 10, 1916. The nest resembles that of 

 Manacus, but is larger, and is saddled on a horizontal fork of a bush, 

 about two feet from the ground, in heavy forest. It is a thin, almost 

 transparent structure, made of rather coarse fibers, with a thin lining 

 of finer material of the same sort. The eggs are pale greenish white, 

 heavily blotched with burnt umber, especially at the larger end; they 

 are strongly ovoid in shape. 



255. Formicarius analis virescens Todd. 



Formicarius moniliger virescens Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXVIII, 

 191S, 80 (Fundacion; arig. descr. ; type in coll. Carnegie Mus.). — ^Apolinar 

 Masia, Bol. Soc. Cien. Nat. Inst. La Salle, III, 1915, 87 (ref. orig. descr.). 



Eight specimens : Fundacion and Tucurinca. 



Both Mr. Ridgway {Proceedings U. S. National Museum, XVI, 

 1893, 677) and Dr. Chapman (Bulletin American Museum of Natural 

 History, XXXVI, 1917, 390) refer Columbian specimens of this 

 group to F. analis saturatus, a name based on Trinidad specimens. 

 Whatever disposition may eventually be made of birds from other 

 parts of Colombia — and they are certainly very puzzling— it is clear 

 that Santa Marta specimens represent a race distinct from saturatus. 

 In the latter the upper parts are decidedly brownish (raw umber) ; in 



