334 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



These agree well with practically topotypical specimens from Vene- 

 zuela, and differ from 5". amasonus amazonus as said by Mr. Ridgway, 

 whose arrangement of this genus we follow in the absence of other 

 satisfactory material for comparison. 



A bird of the foothills, rarely straggling down to the littoral zone, 

 and ranging upward to 3,000 feet at least, seeming to prefer the more 

 humid sections. Mr. Smith took it at Bonda, but the writer has 

 never met with it on the north side of the San Lorenzo. It is a bird 

 which keeps on or near the ground in the heavy forest, and is very 

 quiet, shy, and inconspicuous. If it has a call-note this has not been 

 heard. 



285. Pipra erythrocephala erythrocephala (Linnaeus). 



Pipra auricapilla (not of Lichtenstein) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 169 

 (Minca). — Sclates, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888. 296 '(Minca). — 

 Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 137 ("Santa Marta,")- — 

 Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 156 (Bonda, Onaca, Minca, 

 Agua Dulce, Las Nubes, and Valparaiso). 



Pipra erythrocephala Hellmayr, Ibis, 1906, 20 (" Santa Marta"; references). 



Pipra erythrocephala erythrocephala Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 

 IV, 1907, 748 (Santa Marta localities and references). 



Thirty specimens: Onaca, Cincinnati, La Tigrera, Las Vegas, Las 

 Taguas, Minca, and Don Diego. 



These are indistinguishable from specimens from Venezuela and 

 Trinidad. 



A Tropical Zone form, inhabiting the foothills and lower mountain 

 slopes from 1,000 Up to 4,500 feet, dropping down to sea-level in the 

 humid forest of the northeast coast. It was particularly abundant at 

 Las Vegas at about 3,500 feet. It is usually met with in small bands, 

 the males often flocking by themselves, presumably while the females 

 are incubating. The birds keep rather high up in the trees, making 

 short rapid flights from branch to branch, with a whirring noise, then 

 sitting perfectly still for a minute or so. 



286. Chiroxipliia lanceolata (Wagler). 



Chiroxiphia lanceolata Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 202 (Manaure). — 

 Sclates, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 309 (Manaure). — Bangs, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 137 (" Santa Marta "). — Allen, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 155 <Bonda, Minca, and Cacagualito) ; XXI, 

 1905, 288 (Bonda; descr. nest and eggs). — Miller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 



