1917.] Chapman, Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia. 401 



mens agree with a series from Santa Marta, but specimens from Puerto 

 Berrio and Malena are more deeply colored than typical agnatus. It would 

 not be surprising if the upper Magdalena bird should prove to be separable 

 from the one inhabiting the more arid coastal region. 



Turbaco, 2; Calamar, 2; Boca de Chimi, 1 ; Puerto Berrio, 1 ; Malena, 2. 



(2255a) Upucerthia excelsior Columbiana Chapm. 



Upucerthia excelsior columbiana Chapm., BuU. A. M. N. H., XXXI, 1912, p. 148 

 (Paramo of Santa Isabel, Cen. Aades, Col.). 



Char, subsp. — Similar to Upucerthia excelsior excelsior Scl., but bill stouter and 

 longer, superciliary and light areas of underparts whiter, brownish areas below hair- 

 brown rather than broccoli-brown. 



Found by us only in the Paramo of Santa Isabel in the Central Andes 

 where Allen and Miller secured twenty specimens. In the British Museum 

 Catalogue (XV, p. 19) Sclater lists specimen "a. 9 ad. SK. Pichincha, 

 Ecuador (Fraser)" and specimen "6 9 ad. SK. Panza [Chimborazo], Ecua- 

 dor, (Eraser)" as types of Upucerthia excelsior. Accepting the locality 

 first-named as the type-locality I made my original comparison with Mt. 

 Pichincha specimens. I find, however, that in the original description 

 (P. Z. S., 1860, p. 77), Sclater made no mention of Pichincha but gave as 

 the habitat of the species: ^'In Monte Chimborazo, reipubl. Equator, ad. 

 alt. 14,000 ped." It follows, therefore, that Chimborazo, not Pichincha, as 

 stated by me, is the type-locality of the species. Eortunately we have 

 since received an excellent series of fourteen specimens collected by Richard- 

 son on Chimborazo which confirm the characters ascribed to the Colombian 

 bird. 



Paramo of Santa Isabel, 20. 



(2280a) Lochmias sororia Scl. & Salv. 

 Lochmias sororia Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S., 1873, p. 511 (Venezuela). 



An adult male from Miraflores in the Central Andes agrees with an adult 

 female from Buena Vista, above Villavicencio, and is evidently to be re- 

 ferred to this species. A young female from Miraflores has the spots on 

 the underparts fewer and less distinct. 



Lochmias obscurata Cab., to which I refer two specimens from Inca 

 Mines, Peru, is much darker, less rufous above and below, and has fewer, 

 less evident spots on the underparts, those which are present being con- 

 fined largely to the median line. 



Miraflores, 2; Buena Vista, 1. 



