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feature in the Venezuelan birds. Some of the latter very closely ap- 

 proach B. auricapillus olivascens of Trinidad, etc., but only one of the 

 Santa Marta skins of the present form has more than a trace of 

 Mars yellow on the middle of the crown, this part being nearly plain 

 dull lemon yellow. While there are thus individual exceptions to the 

 rule, the difference pointed out seems sufficiently constant to admit 

 of the subspecific separation of the Santa Marta birds, which have 

 been duly provided with a name by the writer as above. 



A species which is essentially characteristic of the foothills section 

 of the Tropical Zone, ranging from i,ooo to 3,000 feet above sea-' 

 level; but most abundant between 2,000 and 3,000 feet in the more 

 humid forests on the northeast slopes of the San Lorenzo and Hor- 

 queta. It has not been taken anywhere in the lower Macotama Val- 

 ley, but was found to be fairly common at Loma Larga, at the eastern 

 extremity of the main Sierra Nevada. Like all the species of this 

 genus, it is found rather low down in the forest, flitting about from 

 shrub to shrub and among the lower branches of the trees. A faint 

 chirping and and twittering is the only sound it has ever been heard 

 to make. 



409. Basileuterus conspicillatus Salvin and Godman. 



Basileuterus conspicillatus Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 117 (San Jose; 

 orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.). — Reichenow and Schalow, 

 Journ. f. Orn., XXVIII, 1880, 323 (reprint orig. descr.).— Shaepe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., X, 1885, 389 (San Jose; descr.). — Salvin, Ibis, 1887, 

 130, in text (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 191 7, 551, in text (crit.). 



Basileuterus cinereicollis (not of Sclater) Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 XII, 1898, 160 (Pueblo Viejo), 180 , (San Francisco and Palomina). — 

 Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, igoo, 120, 175 (Las Nubes, Onaca, 

 Valparaiso, and El Libano ; plum.; crit.). — -Shaepe, Hand-List Birds, V, 

 1909, 123 (range; syn.). 



Additional records: Chirua, La Concepcion, San Miguel (Brown). 



Twenty-eight specimens: Las Nubes, Valparaiso, Cincinnati, San 

 Lorenzo, Las Taguas, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (6,000 feet), 

 Las Vegas, Minca, and Pueblo Viejo. 



The first two examples of this warbler taken in the Santa Marta 

 region were promptly described by Salvin and Godman as a new spe- 

 cies, Basileuterus conspicillatus, comparison being made with B. coro- 



