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British Honduras, which may safely be assumed to represent typical 

 O. funereus (described from the State of Oaxaca, Mexico), the. pres- 

 ent series fail to show any such well-rtiarked differences as are attrib- 

 uted to the alleged southern form aihiops by Mr. Hellmayr. The bill, 

 it is true, averages a little smaller in the Santa Marta skins, but the 

 difference is slight, while there is practically no difference of moment 

 in general size between the two series. Variation in color among the 

 females covers practically the same ground in both series, and is 

 obviously due to season and age, as already indicated by Mr. Ridgway 

 (Bulletin United States National Museum, No. 50, I, 1901, 605). 



A species which ranges through the upper part of the Tropical Zone. 

 Sclater recorded it from Minca many years ago, and it was found 

 there also by the present writer, in the old cleared lands between 2,000 

 and 3,000 feet, but was not common. It was present also, although 

 in small numbers, all around Pueblo Viejo and in the Chirua Valley, 

 keeping to the edges of woodland and the shrubbery along streams. 

 As a rule it occurs in pairs, and is very shy, remaining in the low 

 bushes or near the ground and when flushed alighting on the tip of 

 some dead weed or shrub. 



489. Cyanocompsa cyanoides cyanoides (Lafresnaye). 



Cyanocompsa concreta sancta-marta Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. XII, 



1898, 139 ("Santa Marta"; orig. descr. ; type now in coll. Mus. Comp. 



Z06I. ; crit.). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 121, 165 



(Cacagualito; Bangs' reference).- — Hellmayr and von Seilern, Arch. f. 



Naturg., LXXVIII, 1912, 67 (crit.). 

 Guiraca cyanoides var. saricla'-martis Dubois, Syn. Avium, I, 1901, 612 (Santa 



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

 Cyanocompsa sancta-martm Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, V, 1909, 202 (ref. orig. 



descr.; range). — Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 362 (ref. 



orig. descr.; range). 



Additional records: Fundacion (Carriker). 



Twenty-six specimens: Cacagualito, Don Amo, Don Diego, La Ti- 

 grera, and Minca. 



Mr. Bangs calls our attention to the fact that the name cyanoides 

 (Lafresnaye, 1847) 's the earliest one applicable to this specific group. 



Besides the above fine suite of specimens, the writer has examined 

 Mr. Bangs' type-series, as well as Panama examples. Due allowance 

 being made for individual and seasonal variation, which is consider- 

 able in this group, he can find no sufficient characters on which to 



