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Octhceca lessoni ^oliogastra Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1900, 226 (Sierra Nevada 

 de Santa Marta, in range; ref. orig. descr.). — von Berlepsch, Ornis, XIV, 

 1907, 470 (crit.). 



Additional records: Paramo de Macotama (Brown). 



Twenty-seven specimens : Cerro de Caracas, Macotama, Paramo de 

 Mamarongo, and Paramo de. Chiruqua. 



This species is quite distinct from its nearest ally, 0. lessoni of the 

 main Andes of Colombia. Besides being larger, the pileum is mummy 

 brown (instead of dusky neutral gray), the abdomen light neutral 

 gray, not white, and the ochraceous tawny breast-band is much broader 

 and a little deeper in color. The superciliaries, too, are not white, as 

 stated in the original description, but gray in front, and indistinct, 

 becoming wider and whiter posteriorly, and strongly tinged with buffy, 

 which color tends to coalesce across the nape. 



This interesting alticoline species is one of those discovered by 

 Simons in this region in 1879, four specimens having been secured 

 in July of that year in the Sierra Nevada, at altitudes ranging from 

 9,200 to 10,000 feet. These, with another taken later, were the only 

 ones known to science until Mr. Brown's researches yielded a series of 

 fifteen specimens, duly recorded by Mr. Bangs. Its range is practically 

 restricted to the Temperate Zone, between about 8,000 and 11,000 

 feet. Mr. Brown, indeed, records it up to 12,000 feet, but while this 

 may be true of stragglers it is certainly not the usual thing. It proves 

 to be a common bird along the edge of the forest and in the scattered 

 shrubbery of the valleys at these elevations, occurring in pairs. A 

 nest was found on the Paramo de Chiruqua at about 11,000 feet, with 

 young nearly ready to fly, It was built of moss, lined with soft 

 "vegetable down, and placed on a projection on the side of a huge 

 boulder, sheltered by some stunted trees. 



356. Octhodiaeta pemix Bangs. (Plate V.) 



Octhodimta pernix Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIII, 1899, 95 (Maco- 

 tama; orig. descr.; type now in Mus. ' Comp. Z06I.). — Allen, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 121, 152 (San Lorenzo). — Sharpe, Hand-List 

 Birds, III, 1 90 1, 91 (ref. orig. descr.; range). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, II, 

 1903, 1074 (Santa Marta [region], in range; ref. orig. descr.). — von Ber- 

 lepsch, Ornis, XIV, 1907, 469 (crit.). — -Brabousne and Chubb, Birds S. 

 Am., I, 1912, 260 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 



Five specimens : San Lorenzo and Cerro de Caracas. 



An alticoline species, restricted to the Temperate Zone of this re- 



