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the dress of the adult, there is ground for suspecting that this species, 

 like many other tanagers, does not acquire the fully adult plumage 

 until the first postnuptial moult. 



This handsome species, described originally from Carthagena, is a 

 bird of the Tropical Zone, ranging in the Santa Marta region over the 

 more humid portions of the littoral district, and up into the mountains 

 to a height of nearly 5,000 feet on the western slopes of the San Lo- 

 renzo, as well as in the Sierra Nevada proper. It was abundant at 

 Loma Larga, at the eastern extremity of the range, and was noted 

 also at the crossing of the Rio Barbacoas, near Arroya de Arenas, and 

 at Fonseca. It is a bird of the more open country, frequenting the 

 edges of woodland, scrub-growth, shrubbery-dotted pastures, etc. 

 About Fundacion it is very common, and even more so at Don Diego, 

 where it occurs in pairs or small flocks, very noisy, all over the plan- 

 tation. Dr. Allen has described nests collected by Mr. Smith as com- 

 pact, deeply cupped structures, built in the fork of a branch of a 

 coffee-tree, and composed externally of plant-stems, lined with finer 

 stems and wire-grass. " The eggs are blue, finely spotted with light 

 and dark chocolate over most of the surface, but with the spots gen- 

 erally largef and more numerous about the larger end." They were 

 laid in May. 



■467. Nemosia pileata hjrpoleuca Todd. 



Nemosia pileata (not Tanagra pileata Boddaert) S.4Lvin and Godman, Ibis, 

 1880, 121 (Valencia; range). — Sclatee, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XI, 1886, 223 

 (Valencia). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 167 (Salvin and 

 Godman's reference). — von Beelepsch, Verb. V. Int. Orn.-Kong., 1911, 

 1084 (Santa Marta, in range). 



Nemosia pileata hypoleuca Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXIX, 1916, 

 95 (Tucurinca; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Carnegie Mus.). — Apolinar Maria, 

 Bull. Soc. Cien. Nat. Inst. La Salle, IV, 1916, 117 (reprint orig. descr.). 



Fourteen specimens : Fundacion and Tucurinca. 



Following von Berlepsch, these were at first referred to typical 

 pileata, described from Cayenne, until the acquisition of specimens 

 from the State of Carabobo, Venezuela, presumably referable to the 

 form in question, showed that the facts were otherwise. The Santa 

 Martan form differs conspicuously from both true pileata (as repre- 

 sented by the Venezuelan specimens above referred to) and paraguay- 

 ensis in its smaller size and much whiter under parts, with little or 



