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(3823a) Spinus nigricauda Chapm. 



Spinus nigricauda Chapm., BuU. A. M. N. H., XXXI, 1912, p. 160 (Paramo of 

 Santa Isabel, Cen. Andes, Col.). 



Char. sp. — Most nearly resembling Spinus spinescens capitaneus Bangs, but 

 with longer wings, darker back, no yellow at the base of the tail, less yellow in the 

 wing, heavily streaked under tail-coverts, etc. 



Since the discovery of this species by Allen and Miller in the Central 

 Andes, Miller and Boyle have secured four typical specimens at the northern 

 end of the Central Andes. 



ParamiUo, (12,500 ft.), 4; Santa Isabel (12,700 ft.), 2. 



(3825) Spinus xanthogaster (DuBus). 



Chrysomitris xanthogastra Dtr Bus, Bull. R. Acad. Belg., XXII, 1855, p. 152 

 (Ocafia, Col.); Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328 (Canute; Cocuta); Sol. & Salv., P. Z. S., 

 1879, p. 508 (Sta. Elena). 



San Antonio, 4; Sta. Elena, 2. 



(3841) Astragalinus psaltria columbianus (Lafr.). 



Carduelis columbianus Lafh., Rev. Zool., 1843, p. 292 (Columbia). 



Chrysomitris columbiana Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328 (Ocafia); Sol. & Salv., 

 P. Z. S., 1879, p. 508 (Concordia; Retiro; Sta. Elena; Medellin). 



Astragalinus psaltria columbianus Allen, Bull. A. M. N. H., XIII, 1900, p. 165 

 (Bonda; Onaca; Minca). 



Our specimens are chiefly from the Subtropical Zone in all three ranges, 

 and arid or open portions of the Temperate Zone in the eastern range. 



Ranges from the Tropical to the Temperate Zone. Specimens with 

 black as well as black and white tails are included in our series of adult males 

 from most of the localities mentioned, as follows : 



Western Andes: Caldas, one, in molt, outer feathers only remaining but 

 with as much white as in croceus; one, no white in outer feathers, second pair 

 as in croceus, third pair with but little white on one side, almost none on the 

 other. Central Andes: Miraflores, three, all with tail essentially as in 

 croceus; Barro-Blanco, one, tail black; El Eden, one, outer pair of feathers, 

 one as in croceus, one black; second pair both white, as in croceus, third pair 

 black; Chicoral, one, two outer pairs of feathers with but little white; 

 La Candela, one, same as last, one with little white in outer pair only; San 

 Agustin, one, a little white in outer feather on one side, the same amount in 

 second feather on the other side. Eastern Andes: Above Honda, one, tail 

 wholly black; vicinity of Bogota, ten, seven with tail wholly black, one with 



