Todd-Caeriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 333 



Fourteen specimens : Cerro de Caracas, Macotama, Paramo de Ma- 

 marongo, and Paramo de Chiruqua. 



The sexes are alike in this species, contrary to Sclater's description. 

 Two immature birds (April 4), however, have the abdomen suffused 

 with pale yellow, and the tertials and greater wing-coverts edged ex- 

 ternally with white. In the younger of the two the crest is merely 

 indicated by a few lengthened brownish feathers; in the other the long 

 crest- feathers are being assumed by moult. In both the emargination 

 of the outer primaries is scarcely evident. 



This species was originally described from Bolivia, and it is possible 

 that these northern birds may prove to be different. D'Orbigny's plate 

 represents a brighter-colored bird, but may be inaccurate, as other of 

 his plates are known to be. He gives the tail as being 65 mm. long, 

 but this too is probably an error for 85. 



The writer found this curious cotinga first on the Cerro de Caracas, 

 from 9,000 to 11,000 feet, where it was not uncommon. Later it was 

 met with in the valley above Macotama, from 9,000 up to about 12,000 

 feet, but no higher. Mr. Brown claims to have found the species up 

 to 15,000 feet, but this is almost certainly a mistake. It is of course 

 a species of the Temperate Zone, here as elsewhere throughout its ex- 

 tensive Andean range. It is usually found in pairs or small flocks, 

 not in the deep forest, but in scattered trees and shrubbery. It does 

 not seem to be very shy, but for some reason is very hard to kill at the 

 range usual for other birds of the same size. 



Family PIPRID^. Manakins. 



284. Schiffornis amazonus stenorhynchus (Sclater and Salvin). 

 Heteropelma verrepacis (not of Sclater and Salvin) Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 



Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 155 (Bonda and Cacagualito ; crit. ; plum.). 

 Scotothorus vercB-pacis Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, III, 1901, 159 (" Santa 



Marta," in range). 

 Scotothorus amazonus stenorhynchus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 



50, IV, 1907, 762 (Santa Marta localities and references; plum.). 

 Scotothorus turdinus stenorhynchus Hellmaye and von Seileen, Arch, f; 



Naturg,, LXXVIII, 1912, 87 (" Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta," in range). 



— Hellmayr, Wytsman's Gen. Avium, part 9, 1910, 27 (" Santa Marta," in 



range). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, XXXVI, 1917, 488 ("Santa 



Marta"). 



Twelve specimens:, Bonda, Las Vegas, Don Diego, Pueblo Viejo, 

 and Tucurinca. 



