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these northern birds are very strongly washed with brownish below, 

 so that it is very doubtful if this character can be relied on to separate 

 them from true albiventer of Brazil. The name applied to this north- 

 ern form by Mr. Bangs, using aii example from this region as the 

 type, is long antedated by the Turdus ephippialis of Sclater, described 

 in 1862, but it is not yet entirely certain that this can be maintained 

 as a valid form, owing to the lack of a sufficient series from the type- 

 locality of albiventer (fixed as Para by Mr. Hellmayr) for compari- 

 son. 



Mr. Smith's collectors took nine specimens of this thrush at Bonda, 

 and Mr. Brown secured a series of fifteen examples from various lo- 

 calities in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, but the writer has 

 found it to be very rare, having taken but one each at Mamatoco, 

 Pueblo Viejo, and Loma Larga. He expected to find it common at 

 Don Diego or Dibulla, but none were seen there, nor yet around Cin- 

 cinnati or Minca. As nearly as could be judged from the few indi- 

 viduals met with, its habits and haunts are the same as those of T. 

 grayi incomptus, frequenting as it does open woodland and the vicinity 

 of streams. Dr. Allen has described the nests and eggs sent in by Mr. 

 Smith as very similar to those of this latter species. 



363. Turdus grayi incomptus (Bangs). 



Planesticus luridus (not Turdus luridus Hermann) Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., 



XXXVIII, 1854, 4, footnote (" New Granada ".; orig. descr. ; type in coll. 



British . Mus.). — Sclater, Proc. Z06I. Soc. London, 1859, 330 (crit.). — 



Baird, Rev. Am. Birds, 1864, 27, in text (crit.). — Brabourne and Chubb, 



Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 344 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 

 Turdus luridus Sclater, Proc. Z06I. Soc. London, 1867, 132, in text (" Santa 



Marta"; crit.). — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Avium Neotrop., 1873, 2 



(range). — Giebel, Thes. Orn., Ill, 1877, 714 (syn.). — Salvin and Godman, 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1879, 19, in text (Santa Marta; crit.). 

 Turdus grayi (not of Bonaparte) Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 115 (Santa 



Marta; crit.). — Seebohm and Sharpe, Mon. Turdidae, I, 1902, 261 (Santa 



Marta; crit.). 

 Merula incompta Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 144 (" Santa 



Marta"; orig. descr.; type now in coll. Mus. Comp. Z06I. ; meas. ; crit.). — 



Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 121, 181 (Bangs' reference). 



— Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1901, 395 (Santa Marta, in range; ref. orig. 



descr.). 

 Merula grayi lurida Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, igoo, 181 (Bonda; 



local range; crit.); XXI, 1905, 294 (Bonda; descr. nest and eggs). 



