444 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



It is found on this latter ridge wherever . forest exists, but according 

 to the writer's experience not below 7,000 feet. In the Sierra Nevada 

 it ranges in the forest between 5,000 and 10,000 feet, being thus a 

 species of the Subtropical Zone. It is not a common bird, and is usu- 

 ally seen in pairs, keeping wall to the tree-tops, flitting restlessly from 

 branch to branch and from tree to tree. 



A nest sent in by Mr. Smith was collected at El Libano on May 20. 

 It is a bulky affair, with every appearance of having been built on the 

 ground, being cornposed outwardly of a layer of moss, succeeded by a 

 mass of vegetable fibers of various kinds, and lined with fine weed- 

 stalks. The two eggs are rather elongate oval, measuring 20 X 13. 

 and are white, speckled with reddish brown, about like those of the 

 Canadian Warbler (Wilsonia canadensis). 



411. Myioborus verticalis (D'Orbigny and Lafresnaye). 



Setophaga verticalis Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 118 (San Sebastian). — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X, 1885, 420 (San Sebastian and San Sal- 

 vador). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 180 (San Miguel). 

 —Bangs, Proc. New England Z06I. Club, I, 1899, 80 (San Sebastian and 

 51 Mamon). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 176 (Las 

 Nubes, Valparaiso, and El Libano). ^ 



Additional records: Macotama, La Concepcion, Chirua (Brown). 



Twenty specimens : Las Nubes, Valparaiso, Cincinnati, Las Taguas, 

 Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (6,000 feet). Las Vegas, Pueblo Viejo, 

 and Heights of Chirua. 



Some years ago Dr. Chapman described a supposed race of this spe- 

 cies from northeastern Venezuela under the subspecific name pallidi- 

 ventris {Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, XII, 1899, 

 153). Comparison of the type-series with Santa Marta birds shows 

 that this form cannot be maintained, at least on the assumption that 

 the latter are the same as typical verticalis (described from Bolivia). 

 Some of thfe Santa Marta skins are practically as pale below as the 

 type of pallidiventris, while one skin referred to the latter by the de- 

 scriber is as much tinged with orange below as the majority of the 

 Santa Marta birds. Moreover, a series from the Sierra de Carabobo, 

 Venezuela, range from almost pure yellow below to pale orange, con- 

 firming the impression gained from a study of the preceding series. 

 Compare, in this connection, the remarks of Messrs. Hellmayr and 

 von Seilern (Archiv fUr Naturgeschichte, LXXVIII, 1912, 48), who 



