The Distribution of Bird-Life in Colombia; a Contribution to a Biological Survey of South America
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Speci- mens labeled "Quito" doubtless were collected at the upper limits of the range of the species. They agree with others from Naranjo, Prov. Guayas, and from Esmeraldas, showing that this form apparently occupies the entire humid Tropical Zone of western Ecuador. One of six Esmeraldas specimens approaches connectens in having the breast barred while of six Barbacoas specimens three have the upperparts paler than in connectens and in this respect are nearer nigricapillus. As might be expecte...d, therefore, this is evidently the area of intergradation between these two forms while somewhere between Cocal and Buenaventura connectens merges with schotti. The region from Buenaventura to Es- meraldas is evidently, therefore, the area of intergradation of schotti with nigricapillus, and this intergrading form in the'region of its typical develop- ment differs sufficiently from the forms it connects to deserve a name of its own. Certainly it could not satisfactorily be referred to one or the other.
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