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more than the depth of the bill at its base, allowing for the fact that 

 in the skin as made up the bill is apparently not quite closed. The 

 series at present available show some variation in all these particulars, 

 but the discovery of the adult male serves to confirm Mr. Bangs' ref- 

 erence of this species to the genus Catamenia, with which it agrees 

 in structural characters as well as pattern of coloration in both sexes. 

 According to the views of the present writer Catamenia should be re- 

 stricted (among known forms) to C. analis (Lafresnaye and D'Or- 

 bigny), C. analoides (Lafresnaye), and the present species. These 

 agree in having the wing more rounded, the ninth (outermost) pri- 

 mary equal to or longer than the third, while the rectrices have blunt 

 tips, and are relatively broader than in the other species heretofore as- 

 signed to this group. The style of coloration, too, is similar, even 

 down to the white spot on the rectrices. C. alpica is clearly most 

 nearly allied to C. analoides, but (in the male) is duller colored and 

 more distinctly streaked above, less purely gray below, and with the 

 white spot on the rectrices averaging smaller, hot touching the shaft. 



Catamenia analoides schistaceifrons, described by Dr. Chapman 

 (Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, XXXIV, 191S, 649) 

 from the Bogota region of Colombia, the type and one other speci- 

 men (a female) of which have been kindly loaned by him for use- in 

 this connection, proves on comparison to be very close to, if not iden- 

 tical with, C. alpica, the male of which was naturally unknown to him 

 at the time. Allowing for the somewhat more worn condition of this 

 pair of birds, the measurements are practically the same, while the 

 male differs only in the color of the bill, which is entirely pale yellow, 

 and in having slightly more white at the base of the primaries — <lif- 

 ferences to which we are not inclined to attach very much importance. 

 In any case, should the acquisition of additional material from the 

 Bogota . region eventually confirm the validity of this form, it would 

 have to stand as a subspecies of C. alpica instead of C. analoides. 



The type — and heretofore the only known specimen — of this inter- 

 esting species was shot by Mr. Brown on the Paramo de Chiruqua, at 

 an altitude of 15,000 feet, on February 27, 1899, from a passing flock. 

 By the present writer it was first taken March 29, 1914, at Taquina, 

 in some low shrubbery along a tiny creek on the tableland. There 

 were more individuals present, in company with other species, but 

 they were very shy and all managed to escape except the one shot at first. 



