1917.] Chapman, Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia. 445 



typically represent meloryphus it would seem that paulus can be distin- 

 guished from it only by its slightly shorter wings and tail. 



A specimen from Carupano, Venezuela, agrees with the Chicoral bird. 

 Comparative measurements of females are appended. 



S. E. Brazil (Type of hapalocercus) 



Chapada Brazil (no sex) 



Chirua, Santa Marta, Col. (Type of paulus) 



U (( tt tt 



La Concepcion " 



Chicoral, " 



(2847) Hapalocercus acutipennis Scl. & Sah. 



Hapalocercus acutipennis Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S., 1873, p. 187 , (Bogotd) ; Ibid., 

 1879, p. 572 (MedelUn). 

 Salento, 1. 



(2852a) Habrura pectoralis bogotensis Chapm. 



Habrura pectoralis bogotensis Chapm., Bull. A. M. N. H., XXXIV, 1915, p. 646 

 (Subia, Bogota Savanna, Col.). 



Similar to H. p. pectoralis but more richly colored throughout, the buffy areas of 

 pectoralis largely ochraceous-tawny; the lores, margins to frontal feathers, auricular 

 region, rump, wing-bars and quill margins ochraceous-tawny, the forebaok blackish 

 brussels-brown; crown black, margined with ochraceous-tawny; underparts largely 

 ochraceous-tawny, the throat and center of the abdomen yellowish buffy; a band of 

 ochraceous-tawny crossing the breast; size between that of pectoralis and brevipennis. 

 Wing, 44.5; tail, 40; tarsus, 17; culmen, 10 mm. 



This is the fourth new bird taken in the marshes where I had the good 

 fortune to shoot the types of Ixohrychus exilis bogotensis and Agelaius ictero- 

 cephalus bogotensis, and from which Brother Apolinar secured the type of 

 Cistothorits apolinari. 



Evidently the native collectors who, during the past eighty years, have 

 begn shipping birds' skins from Bogota, have collected chiefly on the forested 

 slopes of the Andes, neglecting the country at the city's gates. 



Geographically, the nearest species of the genus Habrura to the one 

 here described, is Habrura pectoralis brevipennis Berl. & Hart. (Nov. Zool., 

 IX, 1902, p. 40). This is a small form of pectoralis, which it is said to re- 

 semble in color, of the lower Orinoco and British Guiana and hence of 

 the Tropical Zone. It follows, therefore, that as with Agelaius icterocepha- 

 lus bogotensis, we have in the bird here described a form of a Tropical 

 Zone species apparently isolated on the Temperate Zone Savanna of Bogota. 



