1917.] Chapman, Distribution 0/ Bird-life in Colombia. 393 



Type. — No. 117,876, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, cf ad. Barbacoas, Nariiio, Colombia, 

 August 25, 1912; W. B. Richardson. 



Description 0/ Male. — (Four specimens). Crown and nape bright rufous-chest- 

 nut slightly paler laterally; lores and a broad superciliary extending to the nape 

 black; back Hght brownish olive, sUghtly browner than in P. rosenbergi, the feathers 

 widely margined with black; rump browner, unstriped; the feathers much elongated 

 and 'fluffy'; tail raw umber; wing-quills black margined externally with Brussels- 

 brown, this color increasing in extent inwardly and occupying the entire outer web 

 of the inner secondaries and both webs of the tertials which have a rounded buff y 

 terminal shaft-spot, and a slightly blackish edging; primary coverts blackish, un- 

 marked; remaining wing-coverts of much the same brown as the exposed surface 

 of the wing, with conspicuous buffy whitish terminal spots occupying most of the 

 end of the feather which is narrowly margined with black; under wing-coverts black- 

 ish with some mixture of rusty, those at the base of the outer primaries broadly 

 tipped with white forming a conspicuous white patch; throat and sides of the head 

 deep, clear orange-rufous somewhat richer than in P. rosenbergi, the feathers without 

 any indication of spots as in P. rufopileatum, on three specimens, but with two basal 

 concealed lateral black spots on one feather in one specimen; rest of the underparts 

 of the same tone of color as the throat but less intense, especially medianly, the sides, 

 flanks and tibia brownish oUve, the ventral region and under tail-coverts more buffy; 

 in one of four males the underparts from the posterior margin of the throat to, and 

 including the upper part of the tibise and under tail-coverts, but excluding the thighs 

 and flanks, are more or less regularly and evenly barred with black; in the remain- 

 ing three males the bars are wanting in some places, and faint or but merely suggested 

 by detached spots in others, no regularity being shown by their distribution except 

 on the ventral region and under tail-coverts where they are present much as in the 

 fully barred specimen; feet brownish black; maxilla black; mandible wholly black 

 in the barred specimen; gonys terminally horn-color in the three comparatively 

 unbarred specimens. 



Description of Female. — (Two specimens). Resembling the male but the lores 

 blackish with a whitish supraloral stripe, the superciliary strongly streaked with 

 ochraceous-rufous, the spots on wing-coverts more ochraceous, the under wing- 

 coverts and white patch at base of primaries tinged with rufous; the throat as in 

 the male, the remainder of the underparts with but mere suggestions of broken bars 

 much as in the least barred male. 



It is assuredly surprising to find two evidently representative but appar- 

 ently distinct species of birds at localities in the same fauna, 9s closely 

 situated as are the ranges of Pittasoma rufopiUatum and the bird described 



