100 Bangs On Some Birds from Santa Marta, Colombia. Premnoplex brunnescens (Scl.). Two females, one from San Miguel, the other from Ghirua. Dendrocincla olivacea anguina Bangs. Three specimens, one each from Palomina, Chirua, and La Concepcion. All are similar to the type, the only specimen Mr. Brown had previously taken. Picolaptes laciymiger (Des Murs.). One female from La Concepcion. Drymophila caudata (Scl.). Twenty-five specimens, young and adult of both sexes, from Chirua, La Concepcion, San Francisco, Santa Crn/, San Antonio, and San Miguel. I am now inclined to consider the Santa Marta bird true D. caudata (Scl.), although when I recorded the first two, taken by Mr. Brown at Palo mina,* I thought that they were not that species. The tails are about the same throughout the series and do not differ, to any extent, with age or sex. The rectrices are dark brown (between raw umber and bister), with subapical black bands and white tips. The only specimen from ' Bogota ' in the National Museum has a precisely similar tail. Sclater's descrip tion reads : ' Tail of ten feathers, very long, much graduated, black, with white ends.' This was probably a mistake. Conopophaga brownif sp. nov. Five specimens, both sexes, from Chirua. Type, from Chirua, Colombia; altitude, 7,000 feet. No. 6177, cT adult, coll. of E. A. and 0. Bangs. Collected Feb. 1 2, 1899, by W. W. Brown, Jr. Specific characters. A very distinct species, apparently representing a new group, having sides of head and cap like the back and without white post-ocular stripe or patch. Color. Forehead tawny-olive, passing insensibly into color of upper parts; lores yellowish white ; upper parts, yellowish olive; wings dusky brown, outer edges of primaries, secondaries, and tertials dull olivaceous cinnamon ; tertials and secondaries bordered on inner web and tipped with clear cinnamon ; tail sepia; a narrow orbital ring yellowish white ; auriculars reddish olive; throat, breast, sides, and lining of wing oclmi- ceous (in some specimens there is some white on the throat, in others the throat is uniform with the breast) ; middle of belly and under tail- coverts white, varying in extent in different specimens; culmen dusky; mandible yellowish toward base, dusky at tip. Measurements. Type, adult $ : Wing, 61; tail, 29; tarsus, 23.2; ex- *Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. XII, p. 176, 1898. t Named for Wilmot W. Brown, Jr., whose researches have brought to light so many new birds in the Santa Marta region. On Some Birds from Santa Marta, Colombia. 101 posed culmen, 13. Adult $, No. 6179, topotype : Wing, 62; tail, 29.4; tarsus, 23.6; exposed culmen, 12.4. Remarks. C. brovmi does not need comparison with any known form. The one female recorded from Pueblo Viejo, 8,000 feet,* is like the present series from Chirua. Scytalopus sylvestris Tacz. - One male, not fully adult, from San Francisco Jan. 24, 1899. It is not unlikely that fully adult specimens will show the Santa Marta bird to be an undescribed species. The wing measures 46 mm., which is shorter than usual in S. sylvestris. I have compared it with S. argentifrons Ridgw. , and it is certainly not that species. For the present it may be well to call it sylvestris. Scytalopus latebricolaf sp. nov. Seven specimens, six females and one male, from Paramo de Chiruqua and Paramo de Macotama, 11,000 to 12,000 feet. Type, from Paramo de Chiruqua, Colombia ; altitude, 12,000 feet. No. 6208, ? adult, coll. of E. A. and O. Bangs. Collected March 10, 1899, by W. W. Brown, Jr. Specific characters. Scytalopus latebricola has the large feet, tarsus, and bill of the S. analis group, but in size is smaller and has a much shorter tail than S. analis. Colors different, much more reddish brown on rump, flanks, and upper tail-coverts. Sexes apparently alike. Color. Adult, head and back dark brownish slate ; lower rump and upper tail-coverts chestnut, with indistinct blackish cross-bars ; wings and tail dull brownish black ; throat and breast brownish slate gray (al most mouse gray of Ridgway), paler and more silvery on middle of lower breast and upper part of belly ; flanks, lower sides, and under tail-coverts chestnut, with slight irregular spots and cross-bars of dusky ; bill horn color ; feet and tarsus brown. Younger birds (Nos. 6212 and 6210) differ in having more chestnut on the back and breast, in being more decidedly barred on flanks, etc., and in having tertials and wing -coverts barred with chestnut and tipped with yellowish brown, and primaries edged with chestnut. Measurements. * Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. XII, p. 159, 1898. t Latebricola, one who dwells in coverts or lurking-places, 102 Bangs On Some Birds from Santa Marta, Colombia. Remarks. I have carefully examined Lafresnaye's type of Mendaxis analis, which is in fairly good condition. It is a very different bird from that taken by Mr. Brown in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta; is much larger and has a very much longer tail. The colors are also different, but as the specimen appears to be now somewhat faded by exposure to light, it might only make confusion to mention these differences. It measures wing, 66; tail, 63.2; tarsus, 28. In the National Museum I examined specimens from Bogota of still another form, which is probably S. micropterus (Scl.). This differs from S. latebricola in being much darker throughout, the back blacker, the underparts not nearly so gray, and the reddish brown of the flanks and rump darker. Sycalis browni Bangs. Two specimens, one adult (female?), the other a young male, from Palomina and La Concepcion. When identifying the specimens of this bird which Mr. Brown took near Santa Marta, Mr. Ridgway and I were misled by Dr. Sharpe's rather strange treatment of Sycalis citrina, which is placed in the far-removed genus Pseudochloris. Consequently we overlooked that species. There is little doubt that the birds recorded in the ' British Museum Catalogue ' from Colombia are the same as my S. browni. It is probable, however, that S. browni will prove subspecifically different from S.citrina Pelzeln, the latter being based on birds from southern Brazil. It would in fact be very strange if birds of this sort from localities so far apart as southern Brazil and northern Colombia should not prove different. In the lack of Brazilian specimens for actual comparison, I am forced to leave the question in this unsatisfactory condition. Oryzoborus funeieus Scl. Five specimens from Chirua and La Concepcion. Catamenia sp. ? One female from Paramo de Chiruqua, 15,000 feet, Feb. 27, 1899. With but one female I am unable to identify the species positively. It may prove to be undescribed or may possibly be C. analoides. Haplospiza nivaria* sp. nov. Thirteen specimens from Paramo de Chiruqua, 15,000 feet, Feb. and Mar. 1899. Type, from Paramo de Chiruqua, Colombia ; altitude, 15,000 feet. No. 6238, $ adult, coll. of E. A. and 0. Bangs. Collected Mar. 25, 1899, by W. W. Brown, Jr. Specific characters. Much larger than H. unicolor ; $ purer gray, less olivaceous; back more streaked; bill relatively smaller. The feathers * Nivarius, of or belonging to snow. On Some Birds from Santa Marta, Colombia. 103 everywhere very long and lax, and the whole plumage indicating a bird fitted to withstand extreme cold. Color. Adult (J 1 : Upper parts dark gray, between mouse gray and slate color ; interscapulum with indistinct longitudinal dusky streaks ; some of the feathers slightly edged with pale smoke gray ; wings black, all the feathers edged with gray like the back ; tail black, with narrow gray edges ; under parts gray (No. 6 of Ridgway) ; center of belly and under tail coverts somewhat varied by indistinct cross-bars of pale smoke gray ; bill, feet, and tarsus black; ' iris hazel.'* Adult : Heavily streaked throughout;, upper parts sepia, rather paler on cervix and shading into brownish slate on rump and upper tail- coverts, with broad blackish striations ; wings dusky brown edged with sepia, except greater and middle coverts, which are edged with Isabella color; tail dusky brown edged with grayish; throat, breast, flanks, and sides wood brown ; belly and under tail-coverts grayish white ; under parts streaked throughout with blackish,, most heavily on breast and sides, less so on throat and center of belly; bill blackish, base of lower mandible paler, more yellowish. Measurements. Remarks. I am, of course, not familiar with H. uniformis Scl. and Salv. of Jalapa, Mexico, the type being unique, but the description indicates a very different bird from mine, and the measurements show it to be smaller. Mr. Brown found the new species at the edge of snow, at 15,000 feet, on El Paramo de Chiruqua, where he took thirteen specimens in Feb. and March, 1899. At no other station in the mountains did he get spec imens. Some of the birds taken in February were moulting. Myospiza manimbe (Licht.). One female from Paramo de Macotama, 9,000 feet, Mar. 3, 1899. Arremonops caneus f Bangs. At Mr. Ridgway's request I sent him, a short time ago, the three speci mens upon which I based this form. He detected an error in my former * Noted by Mr. Brown from fresh specimens. f Described as Arremonops conirostris caneus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc., Washington, vol. XII, p. 140, June 3, 1898. 104 Bangs On Some Birch from S