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which we have large series. Since it is connected with the former through 

 columhw we may perhaps preferably regard neglectus as the eastern repre- 

 sentative of striatulus rather than the western representative of clarus. 

 The comparatively open character of the country between the western base 

 of the Andes, at Villavicencio, and the middle Orinoco, whence we have 

 specimens of clarus, admits of the geographical connection of these two 

 races. The proposed new form agrees with clarus in- size but is much 

 grayer above and consequently nearer striatulus in color. 



It is significant to observe that immature specimens, having the breast- 

 feathers margined with fuscous, of all three races from the Bogota region, 

 clearly show the characters by which adults may be distinguished. 



(3450a) Troglodytes solstitialis pallidipectus Chapm. 



Troglodytes solstitialis pallidipectus Chapm., Bull., A. M. N. H., XXXI, 1912, 

 p. 157 (Cerro Munchique, Col.). 



Troglodytes solstitialis (nee. Scl.) Sol. & Salv., P. Z. S., 1879, p. 493 (Sta. Elena; 

 "Nech6"). 



Char, subsp. — Similar in size to Troglodytes solstitialis solstitialis Scl., more 

 closely agreeing in color with T. s. macrourus Beil. & Stolz., much less rufescent 

 throughout than T. s. solstitialis the breast being but slightly, instead of strongly 

 washed with buff; wmgs, tail, and bill shorter than in T. s. macrourus, the upperparts 

 less cinnamomeus. 



Common in the Temperate Zone, less so in upper part of the Subtropical 

 Zone of all three ranges. A specimen of true solstitialis Scl. collected by 



