1917.1 



Chapman, Distribution of Bird-life in Colombia. 



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true conirostris, in having no gray on the back and in having the lesser wing- 

 coverts lemon-chrome, and, evidently, is more closely related to chrysoma 

 than to conirostris. 



(3899) Emberizoides sphenurus ( Vieill.). 



Passerina sphenura Vieill., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXV, 1817, p. 25 

 (Cayenne). 



Emberizoides macrurus Sol. & Salv., P. Z. S., 1879, p. 507 (Antioquia; Medellin). 



Emberizoides macrourus Allen, Bull. A. M. N. H., XIII, 1900, p. 163 (Santa 

 Marta; San Miguel; Macotama; Palomina). 



A wide-ranging species of the Tropical Zone, of which we have taken only 

 three specimens, two at La Manuelita, in the Cauca Valley, and one at 

 Quetame at the upper border of the Amazonian fauna in the Eastern Andes. 



La Manuelita, 2; Quetame, 1. 



(3910a) Pseudochloris citrina antioquise subsp. nov. 



Char, subsp. — Similar to P. c. citrina but upperparts very much darker, the 

 shaft-streaks of the back blacker their margins hair-brown rather than buffy brown; 

 remiges and rectrices black rather than fuscous; female with the crown largely hair- 

 brown instead of Saccardo's umber. Males differ from the type (male) of P. browni 

 in having " the chest sUghtly duller; the beUy brighter and clearer yeUow; the yellow 

 of forehead less diffused and not extending as far backward toward the nape; the 

 nape darker; the back much darker, the rectrices and remiges of a deeper, richer 

 color." (T. Barbour in. litt.). 



Type.— 134,194 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, cf ad. Barro Blanco (7200 ft.), Antioquia, 

 Colombia. 



This race is known only from the type-locality whence we have three 

 adult males and two adult females. All are much alike in the color of the 

 upperparts, wings, and tail, indicating that the dark color of these parts is 

 characteristic. Of P. citrina citrina I have only one female, which, however, 

 is in fresh plumage and exactly comparable with one of the Barro Blanco 

 Specimens. 



