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a difference due possibly to the individual variation which occurs in the 

 group. This species has not before been recorded from Colombia. 

 Rio Salaqui, 1; Puerto Berrio, 1. 



(3270a) Rupicola peruviana aurea Chapm. 



Bupicola peruviaTia aurea Chapm., Bull. A. M. N. H., XXXI, 1912, p. 156 

 (Salento, Cen. Andes, Col.). 



Rupicola peruviana Wtatt, Ibis, 1871, pp. 125, 334 (near Portrerras, 7000 ft.); 

 Stont!, Acad. N. S. Phila., 1899, p. 306 (Nevada de Tolima). 



Char, subsp. — Similar to Rupicola peruviana peruviana Lath., but male with the 

 anterior parts of the body, and particularly the crest, more orange in color, orange- 

 chrome rather than flame-scarlet, the gray of the tertials more restricted not whoUy 

 concealing the subapical black of the underlying feather; general coloration of female 

 more orange. 



Inhabits the Subtropical Zone of the Central and Western Andes. It 

 is rare or absent near frequented places, but in the rocky gorges of certain 

 tributaries of the Magdalena near San Agustin Miller found seven nests 

 and secured the eggs, young in various stages, and a large series of adults 

 in the latter part of April, 1912. The specimens recorded from Buena 

 Vista were brought us in the flesh by a native hunter who claimed to have 

 secured them in the heavy forest on the shores of the Rio Negro. This 

 locality was at an altitude of about 1600 feet, and the occurrence of the 

 species there would imply its presence in the Tropical rather than the Sub- 

 tropical Zone, in which alone we had heretofore found it as well as jR. san- 

 guinolenta. Subsequently a specimen was received from a native whom 

 in December, 1913, we sent from Bogota to the Meta, and labeled by him 

 "Barrigon, Dec. 21, 1912, macho." Barrigon is in heavy gallery forest, 

 but is some sixty miles east of Villavicencio and hence on the llanos. 



Richardson also has sent us five specimens taken at an altitude of 2000 

 ft. at Zamora, southeastern Ecuador, and in light of this evidence it ap- 

 pears that on the eastern slope of the Eastern Andes this bird may at times 

 be found in the Tropical Zone, though we should prefer to have the Barrigon 

 record confirmed before believing that the bird is found sixty miles from the 

 mountains. 



Comparison of our fresh specimens from the Bogota region with old 

 ' Bogota ' skins shows that in the latter the black areas are somewhat duller 

 and the orange not quite so deep, but the difference on the whole is very 

 slight. The same remarks hold true on comparison of freshly collected 

 Zamora specimens with old skins labeled " Ambato, Ecuador." 



The exceptionally large series of Colombian birds now available shows 

 that all the specimens received from that country are referable to the form 



