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(4389) Sericossypha albocristata {Lafr.). 



Tangara albo-cristaius Lafk., Rev. Zool., 1843, p. 132 (Colombia). 



Our two specimens are from Almaguer in the Temperate Zone of the 

 Central Andes. 

 Almaguer, 2. 



(4390a) Chlorospingus albitempora nigriceps Chapm. 



Chlorospingus albitempora nigriceps Chapm., BuU. A. M. N. H., XXXI, 1912, 

 p. 166 (Miraflores, Cen. Andes, Col.). 



? Chlorospingus alMtemporalis Wtatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 327 (Alto; forests between 

 Ocana and Bucaramanga). 



Char, subsp. — Most nearly related to Chlorospingus albitempora venezuelanus 

 (Berl.) of Venezuela, but throat paler fulvous and with no postocular mark. 



Known only from the Subtropical Zone on both slopes of the Central 

 Andes and the western slope of the Eastern Andes. 



Our collections now contain twenty specimens of this form, only one of 

 which, a male from Sta. Elena, Antioquia, has any trace of a white post- 

 ocular mark. This specimen has four small white feathers behind the right 

 eye and none back of the left. Unfortunately only one of our specimens is 

 from the Eastern Andes, but in this, a male from Andalucia, there is no 

 trace of a white postocular mark. So far as our material goes, therefore, it 

 indicates the absence of a postocular mark in the Colombian form of this 

 species. If this be true Lafresnaye's description of albitempora (Rev. Zool. 

 1848, p. 12) was evidently not based on a Colombian bird, as stated, and the 

 name albitempora is doubtless therefore applicable to one of the forms now 

 ranked as subspecies of it. 



Miraflores, 2; Salento, 1; Sta. Elena, 9; Rio Toche, 4; El Eden, 2; 

 La Candela, 1; Andalucia (7000 ft.), 1. 



(4394) Chlorospingus flavipectus (Lafr.). 



Arremon flavopectus Lafr., Rev. Zool., 1840, p. 227 (Bogota). 

 Chlorospingus flavipectus Sol. & Salv., P. Z. S., 1879, p. 503 (Retiro; Concordia; 

 Sta. Elena). 



Taken only at El Roble in the Subtropical Zone of the Eastern Andes 

 above Fusugasuga. Comparison of three specimens collected at that local- 

 ity with six old 'Bogota' skins shows that the latter have evidently under- 

 gone a change in color the whole plumage being browner in tone. The 



