Todd-Carriker : Birds of Santa Marta Region, Colombia. 467 



(San Sebastian and El Mamon). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 

 1900, 163 (Salvin and Godman's and Bangs' references). 



Sturnella magna paralios Bangs, Proc. New England Z06I. Club, II, 1901, 56 

 (San Sebastian [type-locality] and El Mamon ; orig. descr. ; type now in 

 coll. Mus. Comp. Z06I. ; meas. ; -crit.). — Dubois, Syn. Avium, II, 1903, 1106 

 (San Sebastian, in range; ref. orig. descr.). — -Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., XXI, 190S, 278 (ref. orig. descr.; syn.). — Hellmayr and von Seileen, 

 Arch. f. Naturg., LXXVIII, 1912, 70 ("Santa Marta"; ref. orig. descr.; 

 crit.). 



Sturnella paralios Bhabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 437 (ref. 

 orig. descr. ; range) . 



One specimen : Camperucho. 



Simons took a single specimen of this bird at San Sebastian, at an 

 altitude of 6,700 feet, on April 5, 1878. This was referred to Stur- 

 nella " ludovicidna" by Salvin and Godman at the time, but a few 

 years later Sclater quoted the record under his Sturnella ludoviciana 

 meridionalis. Mr. Brown met with the species at the same locality, 

 San Sebastian, and also at El Mamon, securing six specimens in all, 

 which Mr. Bangs provisionally referred at first to meridionalis, but 

 later described as a new form, paralios. Mr. Carriker did not visit 

 the south side of the Sierra Nevada, to which in this region the bird 

 in question is apparently confined, until August, 1920, when he dis- 

 covered it in some numbers on the savannas near Camperucho, secur- 

 ing one example. The type-series, examined by the writer in this 

 connection, are also in fresh plumage (July and August), and com- 

 pare favorably with a series from Aguachica, Colombia, collected at 

 about the same time of year. The name paralios has recently been 

 extended to cover the bird of the coast region of Venezuela by Messrs. 

 Hellmayr and von Seilern — a procedure which we are disposed to in- 

 dorse. S. m. paralios may be distinguished from 5. m. meridionalis 

 of the Bogota region of Colombia by its smaller size, shorter, relatively 

 stouter bill, and the rather paler, more rufescent coloration of the 

 upper parts, with the black bars on the tertiaries and rectrices nar- 

 rower. The last mentioned character, as well as the generally more 

 rufescent tone of the upper parts, will also serve to distinguish it 

 from Panama specimens {S. m. inexpectata?) , which it resembles in 

 small size. 



