560 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XXXVI, 



(3774) Catamenia homochroa Scl. 

 Catamenia homochroa Scl., P. Z. S., 1858, p. 552 (Matos, Ecuador).. 



Inhabits the Temperate Zone in all three ranges/ ranging upward to 

 the Paramo in the Western and Eastern Andes. Our specimens from the 

 last-named range are native skins. 



Paramillo, 14; Andes w. of Popayan, 2; Valle de las Pappas, 2; Lagun- 

 eta, 1. 



(3777a) Catamenia analoides schistaceifrons Chapm. 



Catamenia analoides schistaceifrons Chapm., Bull. A. M. N. H., Vol. XXXIV, 

 1915, p. 649 (La Mar, 8260 ft., Cundmamarca, Col.) 



Char, subsp. — Similar to C. a. analoides (Lafr.) but smaller, the male with the 

 forehead, lores and chin slaty or gray and without black, the throat and breast much 

 paler, pale neutral gray rather than slate-gray; white area on the primaries at the 

 end of the primary coverts wholly absent or barely suggested; margins of wing- 

 coverts and inner margins of wing-quills grayer. 



Found only at La Mar and Suba on the Bogota Savanna, our two speci- 

 mens being taken by native collectors. 



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 (3782) Tiaris olivacea pusilla Swains. 



Tiaris pusilla Swains., Phil. Mag. (N. S.) I, 1827, p. 438 (Mexico). 

 Phonipara pusilla Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328 (Bucaramanga) ; Scl. & Salv., 

 P. Z. S., 1879, p. 507 (Retiro; Sta. Elena; MedeUin). 



Occitts in the fields and along the wayside in both Tropical and Sub- 

 tropical Zones, but appears to be more common in the latter than in the 

 former. 



Our specimens all seem to be quite typical of the Mexican form. 



Dabeiba, 1; La Frijolera, 1; Caldas, 2; Las Lomitas, 1; San Antonio, 8; 

 Ricaurte, 2; Rio Frio, 1; -Miraflores, 5; Sta. Elena, 1; Salento, 4; Barro 

 Blanco, 1 ; Rio Toche, 1 ; San Agustin, 2 ; La Palma, 1 ; below Andalucia, 

 3000 and 5000 feet, 3; El Consuelo, 1; Subia, L 



(3783) Tiaris bicolor omissa Jard. 



Tiaris omissa Jabd., Ann. N. H., XX, 1847, p. 332 (Tobago). 

 Eutheia hicolor Stone, Proc. Acad. N. S. Phila., 1899, p. 307 (Ibagiie). 

 Phonipara hicolor Allen, Bull. A. M. N. H., XIII, 1900, p. 165 (Minca). 



Found only in the Magdalena Valley. One of three males is fairly . 

 typical of omissa, the other two have less black below and thus show some 



