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west side of the Sierra Nevada, and was seen in large flocks at Tucur- 

 inca and Fundacion from September 15 to about the middle of Octo- 

 ber. 



290. Tyrannus melanpholicus chloronotus von Berlepsch. 



Tyrannus satrapa (not Laphyctes satrapa Cabanis and Heine) Sclater, Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 235 (" Santa Marta "). 



Tyrannus melancholicus (not of Vieillot) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 

 202 (Atanquez). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 273 ("Santa 

 Marta" and Atanquez). 



Tyrannus melancholicus satrapa Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 

 i8g8, 137 ("Santa Marta"), 176 (Palomina and Macotama ; plumage). — 

 Bangs, Proc. New England Z06I. Club, I, 1899, 79 (San Sebastian). — Allen, 

 Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 142 (Bonda, Minca, Onaca, Caca- 

 gualito, and Valparaiso); XXI, 1905, 281 (Bonda; descr. nest and eggs). — 

 RiDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, IV, 1907, 700 (Santa Marta re- 

 gion ; meas.). 



Tyrannus melancholicus chloronotus Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 ' Z06I., LXIV, 1921, 380 (Santa Marta; Santa Marta Mountains, Santa Cruz, 

 Palomina, Macotama, San Sebastian, and La Concepcion; crit.). 



Additional records: Fundacion, Gaira (Carriker). 



Seventeen specimens : Bonda, Buritaca, Minca, Don Diego, Cincin- 

 nati, and La Tigrera. 



Compared with a series of equal size from Bolivia and Argentina, 

 presumably representing true melancholicus, described from Paraguay, 

 Santa Marta specimens are a little paler below, the throat and breast 

 in particular. The difference is slight, however, and selected speci- 

 mens are often indistinguishable. In these characters they agree bet- 

 ter with a series from Central America, and we accordingly follow 

 Messrs. Bangs and Penard in adopting for them the name chloronotus 

 of von Berlepsch, based on a specimen from Yucatan. 



No. 38,106 (Minca, August 19) is a male in juvenal dress, with the 

 wing-coverts and rectrices margined with rusty buff, the back very 

 dull grayish green, and a mere trace of a crown-spot. 



A common bird everywhere in open country in the Tropical Zone 

 or a little higher, from sea-level up to 5,000 feet, but more abundant 

 in the lowlands and foothills. Its general habits are similar to those 

 of its North American relatives, and like them it is an inveterate 

 fighter of hawks. 



Mr. Smith forwarded eleven nests with eggs, all taken at Bonda be- 



