326 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



P alhogriseus appears to be rare in collections, and its faunal af- 

 finities are not entirely clear. We refer it here to the Piedmont belt 

 of the Tropical Zone, but it is possible that it may belong properly to 

 the Subtropical. 



276. Pachyrhamphus polychroptenis cinereiventris Sclater. 



Pachyrhamphus cinereiventris Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 242 (" Santa 

 Marta"; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.). — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Proc. Z06I. Soc. London, 1864, 361 ("Santa Marta"). — Sclater and Sal- 

 vin, Nom. Avium Neotrop., 1873, 56 (range). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., XIV, 1888, 344 (Santa Marta; crit.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 189X), 127 ("Santa Marta." in range). — Allen, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 154, part (Bonda and Cienaga; crit.); 

 XXI, 1905, 287 (Cacagualito and Bonda; descr. nest and eggs). — Cherrie, 

 Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Sci. Bull., I, No. 8, 1906, 4, in text (Santa Marta [re- 

 gion] ; crit.). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 316 (ref. 

 orig. descr.; range). 



Tityra cinereiventris Gray, Hand-List Birds, I, i86g, 369 ("Santa Marta,". 

 in range). 



Pachyrhamphus niger (not Pachyrhynchus niger Spix) Salvin and Godman, 

 Ibis, 1880, 169 (Santa Marta). 



Pachyrhamphus niger cinereiventris Hellmayr, Nov. Z06I., XIII, 1906, 27 

 ("Santa Marta"; crit). 



Pachyrhamphus polychropterus cinereiventris Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., No. 50, IV, 1907, 827, 831 (Santa Marta localities and references; 

 meas. ; crit.). — Hellmayr and von SeilerN, Arch. f. Naturg., LXXVIII, 

 1912, 89 (Santa Marta; crit.). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXVI, 1917, 492. in text (Bonda; crit.). — Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Z06I., LXIV, 1921, 390 (Santa Marta localities; crit.). 



Sixteen specimens : Bonda, Mamatoco, Tucurinca, Fundacion, and 

 Valencia. 



There has been considerable discussion over the status and name of 

 this form, described by Sclater many years ago from an alleged Santa 

 Marta specimen received from Verreaux. Mr. Hellmayr examined 

 Sclater's type, and found it to agree with a series from Trinidad and 

 Venezuela, to which he accordingly applied the name cinereiventris. 

 Exception was promptly taken to this application of the name by both 

 Mr. Cherrie and Mr. Ridgway, who pointed out that the "common 

 run " of Santa Marta specimens were readily to be distinguished from 

 Venezuelan and Trinidad skins by the much grayer coloration of the 

 males. More recently Mr. Hellmayr has suggested that perhaps Scla- 



