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Family TURDIDAE. Thrushes, Solitaires, etc. 



(3505a) Myiadestes ralloides venezuelensis Scl. 



Myiadestes venezuelensis Scl., Ann. Nat. Hist., XVII, 1856, p. 468 (Caraccas, 

 Venezuela). 



Myiadestes ralloides Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S., 1879, p. 492 (Retire; Concordia; 

 Medellin; Sta. Elena); Hbllm., lUd., 1911, p. 1097 (Siat6, 5200ft.). 



Common in the Subtropical Zone of all three ranges. Specimens from 

 Merida, Venezuela and the Bogota region differ from four Inca Mine, Peru 

 specimens in the much richer coloration of the upperparts, particularly 

 of the rump, which is bright hazel in the northern birds and cinnamon- 

 brown in southern birds. In view of the comparative constancy in color 

 in this wide-ranging bird the Inca Mine specimens may be considered 

 typically to represent ralloides (type-locality, Yungas, Bolivia) while 

 the Merida examples may equally well stand for venezuelensis (type 

 locality, Caraccas). 



Cauca specimens agree with those from the Eastern Andes in the color 

 of the back, but have less olive on the crown which, in some examples, is 

 nearly clear plumbeous quite to the nape, whereas East Andean specimens 

 have the whole crown olive-brown. 



San Antonio, 7; Miraflores, 2; Sta. Elena, 9; El Eden, 1; La Candela, 

 1; Fusugasuga, 3. 



(3508) ? Planesticus serranus {Tsch.). 

 Turdus serranus Tsch., Arch, fiir Naturg., 1844, I, p. 280 (Peru). 



Largely on the basis of size I refer to this species an adult female sent 

 by Brother Apolinar from Chingassa near Bogota. With only two females 

 from Peru and two from Merida, Venezuela, I cannot discover the color 

 differences separating serranus from atrosericeus, but the former seems to be 

 larger, the wing measuring 120 and 126 mm., while in the two Venezuela 

 birds it is 114 and 117 mm. respectively. In the Chingassa specimen it is 

 126 mm. A juvenal male from Subia and another from Andalucia should 

 doubtless be referred to the same species as the Chingassa bird. 



Chingassa, 1; Subia, 1; Andalucia, 1. 



