460 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



by Dr. Lowe. Messrs. Hellmayr and von Seijern's remarks on this 

 point (Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, LXXVIII, 1912, 52) are fully con- 

 firmed by the series in the collection of the Carnegie Museum, although 

 the writer agrees with Dr. Lowe that C. chloropyga and C. luteola 

 should be regarded as distinct species. C. cerinoclunis Bangs should 

 almost certainly stand as a subspecies of the latter. A dark, richly 

 colored race from the mountains of Venezuela has been described by 

 Dr. Lowe under the name C. luteola montana (Ibis, 1912, 509), of 

 which the later C. luteola obscura Cory {Field Museum Ornithological 

 Series, I, 1913, 291) appears to be a synonym. In view of the varia- 

 tion observable in typical luteola further examination of the form in 

 question is naturally desirable. 



Simons met with this little bird in the immediate vicinity of Santa 

 Marta, saying that it was " found amongst bushes and dry twigs of 

 dead trees ; very lively in' its movements.'' Mr. Smith sent in a few 

 specimens labelled " Santa Marta," as also did Mr. Brown ; the birds so 

 labelled by the latter collector, how/ever, doubtless came from the 

 vicinity of Bonda, as elsewhere explained.. Oddly enough, the writer 

 has never seen this bird around Santa Marta itself, or even along the 

 road from that place to Cincinnati. At Fundacion and Tucurinca it 

 is fairly common, also at Don Diego, and along the shores of the 

 Cienaga Grande. Strangest of all, it is not rare at Las Vegas, and 

 has even been recorded from two points in the Sierra Nevada proper. 

 While the usual habitat of this species appears to be the lowlands ot 

 the Tropical Zone up to about 1,000 feet, it was present at Las Vegas 

 up to at least 4,500 feet along the edge of the forest. It is found in 

 all sorts of cover, low and high, and has a faint, rasping, song-like 

 note, easily recognized. 



439. Dacnis coerebicolor napsea Bangs. 



Dacnis naptsa Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XII, 1898, 143 (" Santa 

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

 Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 121, 174 (Bonda and Cacagualito). — 

 Shakpe, Hand-List Birds, V, 1909, 349 (ref. orig. descr.; range). — Bra- 

 EouRNE and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 396 (ref. orig. descr.; range). 



Dacnis carebicolor var. napaa Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1901, 688 ("Santa 

 Marta,'' in range; ref. orig. descr.). 



Dacnis cayana napaa Hellmayr, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 191 1, 1095, in text 

 ("Santa Marta"; range; crit.). 



