1917.] Chapman, Distribution of Bird-life irj, Colombia. 561 



approach toward marchi; one of these, taken alone, might indeed be referred 

 to that form, but both have the posterior margin of the black breast less 

 sharply defined than in marchi. Colombian records of marchi are possibly 

 based on individual variants of this type. 

 Honda 1 cf , 1 9 ; Chicoral 2 cfcf • 



3790. Volatinia jacarini splendens (Vieill.). 



Fringilla splendens Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XII, 1817, p. 173 (Cayenne) . 

 Volatinia jacarina Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328 (Ocana; Buoaramanga) ; Sol. & 

 Salv., p. Z. S., 1879, p. 507 (Medellin). 



Volatinia splendens Robinson, Flying Trip, 1895, p. 101 (Barranquilla). 



Abundant and generally distributed in favorable places in the Tropical 

 Zone and following trails and clearings to the Subtropical Zone. We 

 have no specimens from the Pacific coast north of Tumaco, except at Caldas 

 and Dabeiba. Dabeiba, 2; Caldas, 2; San Antonio, 1; Barbacoas, 1; 

 Tumaco, 1; Cali, 5; La Manuelita, 2; Miraflores, 1; Barro Blanco, 3; 

 Chicoral, 1; Honda, 1; La Playa, 2; Quetame, 1. 



(3796) Pitylus grossus (Linn.). 



Loxia grossa Linn., Syst. Nat. I, 1766, p. 307 (Cayenne). 



Pitylus grossus Cass., Proc. Acad. N. S. Phila., 1860, p. 140 (Falls Truando); 

 ScL. & Salv., P. Z. S., 1879, p. 505 (Remedies; Neohg); Hbllm., Ibid., 1911, p. 1121 

 (Sipi). 



Of general distribution in the Tropical Zone, but we did not take it in 

 the Cauca Valley. 



Dabeiba,!; Quibdo, 1; Baudo, 2; San Jose, 1; Cocal, 2; Barbacoas, 6; 

 w. of Honda, 1. 



(3803) Saltator maximus {Midi.). 



Tanagra maximus P. L. S. Mulleb, Syst. Nat. Supple., 1776, p. 159 (Cayenne). 

 Saltator magnus ScL. & Salv., P. Z. S., 1879, p. 505 (Remedios; Nech6; Medellin) ; 

 Allen, Bull. A. M. N. H., XIII, 1900, p. 166 (Minoa; Onaoa; Caoagualito). 

 Saltator maximus Hellm., P. Z. S., 1911, p. 1121 (Noanamd; N6vita). 



A wide-ranging species of the humid Tropical Zone which, however, we 

 have not taken in the Cauca Valley. 



Pacific coast specimens average larger and somewhat darker, but on the 

 whole our series shows remarkably little variation. 



Noanama, 2; San Jose, 3; Barbacoas, 6; La Frijolera, 4; Puerto Val- 

 divia, 1; below Andalucia, 1 ; Buena Vista, 5 ; Villavicencio, 2 ; Florencia, 5. 



