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Bogota skins are in fact nearer to semicervinus than to the Chicoral bird, 

 but are deeper and more uniformly colored below. 



In default of authentic specimens oifulmcavda further discussion of the 

 status of the Bogota form or forms must be deferred. 



Chicoral, 1. 



Family MOTACILLID^. Pipits, Wagtails. 



(3694) Anthus bogotensis Sd. 



Anthus bogotensis Sol., P. Z. S., 1855, p. 109 (Bogotd); Wt-att, Ibis, 1871, p. 322 

 (Paramo of Pamplona). 



In Colombia known only from the Temperate Zone of the Eastern 

 Andes. 



Subia, 1; Choachi, 3. 



Family ALAUDIDiE. Larks. 



(3702) Otocoris alpestris peregrina Scl. 

 Otocorys peregrina Scl., P. Z. S., 1855, p. 110 (Bogotd). 



This interesting representative of a boreal species is apparently restricted 

 to the Savanna of Bogota where, at least in the vicinity of the city, it is 

 abundant. One, taken Feb. 19, is in juvenal plumage and evidently but a 

 few days from the nest. 



Bogota Savanna, 12; La Mar, 2; La Holanda, 2; El Carmen, 2. 



Family CATAMBLYRHYNCHID^E. Plush-capped Finches. 



(3703) Catamblyrhynchus diadema Lafr. 



CatamUyrhynchus diadema Lapr., Rev. Zool., 1842, p. 301 (Colombia); Set. 

 & Salv., P. Z. S., 1879, p. 507 (Sta. Elena). 



Inhabits the Temperate, and upper part of the Subtropical Zones of all 

 three ranges, though we took it only in the Western and Central Andes. 



Andes w. of Popayan (10,340 ft.), 2; above Salento, (9000 ft.), 1; El 

 Eden, 3. 



