1917.] Chapman, Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia. 225 



(414) Gallinago braziliensis (Swains.). 

 Scohpax braziliensis Swains., Faun. Bor.-Am., Birds, 1831, p. 400 (Brazil). 



Villavicencio (Mch. 13, 14), 3. 



(416) Gallinago nobilis Scl. 



Gallinago nobilis Scl., P. Z. S., 1856, p. 31 (Bogotd); Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S., 

 1879, p. 547 (Retire; breeding). 



Our specimens are from the Paramo Zone in the Central and Eastern 

 Andes. 



Santa Isabel (12,700 ft.), 2 ; Valle de las Pajppas, 3 ; Chipaque (10,000 ft.), 

 1. 



(421) Gallinago jamesoni (Bonap.). 



Xylocota jamesoni Bonap., Compt. Rend., XLI, 1855, p. 660 (Andes of Quito, 

 Ecuador). 



Eleven specimens from the Paramo Zone of the Central Andes agree 

 with others recently collected on Mt. Pichincha. 

 Santa Isabel (12,700 ft.), 11. 



Family PARRID^. Jacanas. 



(427) Jacana spinosa {Linn.). 

 Fulica spinosa Linn., Syst. Nat., I, 1758, p. 152 (South America). 

 La Morelia, 1. 



(428) Jacana melanopygia (Sel): 



Parra melanopygia Scl., P. Z. S., 1856, p. 283 ("S. Marthe in New Grenada,— 

 Verreaux"). 



Eleven specimens from the Cauca Valley all have the back purplish 

 brown more or less sharply defined from the greenish black of the anterior 

 parts of the body. 



All our specimens from the Santa Marta region are referable to nigra, 

 a fact which suggests that the type of melanopygia did not come from Santa 



