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This large flycatcher occurs sparingly in the lowlands contiguous 

 to Santa Marta and in the lower foothills, where it is confined to the 

 woodland along streams and irrigated land. Only a few were noted 

 at Tucurinca and Fundacion, and none at all on the north coast or in 

 the Sierra Nevada, although Mr. Brown got one from Palomina, and 

 Simons secured a specimen at Atanquez, on the south slope of that 

 range, while the writer found it at Valencia. Here, as elsewhere 

 throughout its extensive range, it is a characteristic bird of the Trop- 

 ical Zone. 



295. M3riod3rnastes chrysocephalus intermedius Chapman. 

 Myiodynasies chrysocephalus (not Scaphorhynchus chrysocephalus Tschudi') 



Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 158 (Pueblo Viejo), 176 



(San Francisco). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 146 (El 



Libano, Valparaiso, and Las Nubes) . 

 Myiodynasies chrysocephalus chrysocephalus Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., VIII, 



1912, 209, in text (Santa Marta region; crit.). 

 Myiodynasies chrysocephalus, intermedius Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 



Hist., XXXI, 1912, 152 (Las Nubes; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Am. Mus. 



Nat. Hist.). — Apolinar Maria, Bol. Soc. Cien. Nat. Inst. La Salle, II, 1914, 



245 (ref. orig. descr.). — Hellmayr, Arch. f. Naturg., LXXXV, A, 1920, 57 



(ref. orig. descr.; crit.). 



Additional records: La Concepcion (Brown). 



Fourteen specimens : Las Nubes, El Libano, Cincinnati, Chirua, and 

 Heights of Chirua. 



The present writer was the first to call attention to the peculiarities 

 of Santa Marta specimens of Myiodynasies chrysocephalus, suggest- 

 ing that they would eventually prove to be separable from the typical 

 Peruvian birds, and this surmise was verified a few months later by 

 Dr. Chapman upon comparison of suitable material. A little later 

 still in the same year (1912) Messrs. Hellmayr and von Seilern in- 

 dependently came to the same conclusion as regards birds from north- 

 ern Venezuela {Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, LXXVHI, 1912, 82). 

 Birds from the two. regions, as shown by a good series in the Carnegie 

 Museum, are absolutely indistinguishable from each other, and the 

 latter authors' name venezuelanus will therefore fall as a pure synonym 

 of intermedius, which has a few months' priority, although it may be 

 well to remark that in case the unique type of M. chrysocephalus cine- 

 rascens should prove to be merely an abnormally colored specimen of 

 the present form that name would naturally have precedence. 



