1917.] Chapman, Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia. 461 



and a further approach toward the Brazilian form is found in specimens 

 from Villavicencio and La MoreUa. Myiozetetes similis therefore, as pre- 

 vious authors have already suggested, evidently ranges from Brazil to 

 Mexico and the northern form should stand as Myiozetetes similis texensis- 



Remedios, lower Magdalena, 1; Chicoral, 2; w. slope below Andalucia 

 (alt. 3000 ft.), 1. 



(2983a) Myiozetetes granadensis Lawr. 

 Myiozetetes granadensis Lawb., Ibis, 1862, p. 11 (Panama, R. R.). 



Not common but doubtless occurs throughout the greater part of tropi- 

 cal Colombia. An immature male, lacking the orange and scarlet crest, 

 from Villavicencio and a female from the Cunucunuma River (near the head 

 of the Orinoco) are darker than Panama birds (including the types) above 

 and deeper yellow below, while the crown is more strongly striped. In 

 color they agree with a specimen from Barbacoas {of. von Berlepsch, Nov. 

 Zool., 1902, p. 46). 



Alto Bonito, 2; Bagado, 1; San Jose, 1; Barbacoas, 1; Calamar, 1; 

 Villavicencio, 1. 



(2984) Myiozetetes similis connivens Berl. & Stolz. 



Myiozetetes connivens Berl. & Stolz., Ornis, XIII, 1906, p. 87 (La Merced, 

 Chanchamayo, Peru). 



Specimens from the eastern base of the Andes are clearly not to be re- 

 ferred to the form which occupies the entire Caribbean coast and westward 

 to Costa Rica. The central wing-quills are more rufous, the wing-lining 

 more cinnamon, and in the coloration of these parts they are nearer Bahia 

 specimens than to true columhianus. These characters are particularly 

 well shown in a freshly plumaged bird taken at La Morelia, July 11, but the 

 more worn condition of birds taken at Buena Vista and Villavicencio in 

 March, has left but little rufous on the external-margin of the quills, though 

 the cinnamon color of the inner margins is sufficiently pronounced to dif- 

 ferentiate them from columhianus. The freshly plumaged Morelia bird 

 differs from a comparable specimen from eastern Brazil in having the back 

 more olive, the throat more yellow and apparently therefore agrees with 

 the form from eastern Peru to which, in the absence of Peruvian specimens, 

 I have provisionally referred it. 



La Moreha, 1; Buena Vista, 1; Villavicencio, 3. 



