418 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



having broad and distinct superciliaries, of which T. solstitialis is the 

 best known form. It appears to most closely resemble T. brun- 

 neicollis of Mexico, but is a perfectly distinct, isolated species. It is 

 confined to the Paramo Zone of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 

 having been discovered by Mr. Brown on the Paramos de Chiruqua 

 and Macotama, at elevations ranging from ii,ooo to 15,000 feet, al- 

 though it has not be& detected below the latter altitude by the present 

 writer. It is found in the low, thick shrubs and bushes in the more 

 sheltered parts of the paramo. It is a very shy bird, rarely coming 

 out into the open, and being silent is easily overlooked. 



382. Troglodytes musculus atopus Oberholser. 



Troglodytes furvus (not Motacilla furva Gmelin) Sclater, Proc. Z06I. Soc. 



London, 1859, 137 (" Santa Marta "). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1861, 23 



("Santa Marta"). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, I, 1880, 



97, in text, loi ("Santa Marta"; crit.). 

 Troglodytes tessellatus (not of D'Orbigny and Lafresnaye) Salvin and God- 

 man, Ibis, 1879, 198 (Marocaso; crit.); 1880, 117 (Santa Marta). 

 Troglodytes rufulus (not of Cabanis) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., VI, 1881, 



258 (Marocaso and Santa Marta; crit.). 

 Troglodytes musculus rufulus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 



179 (Minca, Cacagualito, Cienaga, and Bonda; crit.). 

 Troglodytes musculus atopus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVII, 



1904, 207 (Cacagualito ; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. ; 



crit.). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXI, 1905, 278 (ref. orig! descr.; 



syn.). 

 Troglodytes atopus Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 337 (ref. 



orig. descr.; range). 



Additional records: Fundacion (Carriker). 



Thirty-one specimens : Bonda, Don Diego, Cincinnati, Gaira, Rio 

 Hacha, and Tucurinca. 



Considerable discussion has arisen in the past over the proper name 

 of the Santa Marta House Wren, as evidenced in the above list of 

 references. Sclater referred the single specimen obtained from Ver- 

 reaux to the species then called Troglodytes furvus. The examples se- 

 cured by Simons twenty years later were considered by Salvin and God- 

 man to be the same as the Peruvian and Bolivian form' (now known as 

 T. musculus tecdlatus) , and by Sharpe to belong to T. rufulus, through 

 a misidentification of the latter name. The latter author was the first 

 to point out the peculiarities of the bird of the Santa Marta region, 



