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the outer webs, and much wliite near the bases of the inuer webs. Reftrices dark 

 gre}', with blackish cross-bands and some pale rufous mottlings, each one with a 

 small white and a black anteapical spot at the tip. Below pale rust_y brown, with 

 black irregular cross-markings. Facial ruff very pale brown, the tips of the feathers 

 black. A large black spot in front of the eye. "Iris brown; feet yellow, claws 

 brown ; bill greenish white, skin at nostrils yellow." I have only given a sub- 

 specitic name to this most interesting dark form, because no doubt most of the 

 Barn-Owls will have to be considered sid:ispecies of Strix^/iammea. 



200. Tinnunculus sparverius cinnamominus (Sw.). 



A series from Cayambe, June, at. over liOOO feet, where they were common and 

 were often seen sitting on the top of a house and breeding in holes of walls. " Iris 

 brown, bare skin round eyes lemon-yellow, feet orange-yellow with black claws, in 

 both sexes." All ihefi'mrdfls have some rufous lines on the crown. A young muh' 

 (marked ¥ by mistake) in first plumage, just out of nest, with some of the down 

 still hanging on the head, resembles the adult male, but is of a deejjcr rufous above, 

 and all the feathers have one broad black bar near tlie tip. Below like adult J, but 

 more fre(|uently striated with black shaft-stripes; the tail exactly as in the adult 

 male. In tliis respect it differs from our European Tinmnicidi, in which tlie young 

 mules resemble the o\(\ex females. 



201. Falco albigularis l>aud. 

 Paramba, 3.")00 feet. " Feet yellow." 



202. Buteo melanoleucus (Vieill.). 



In June at Cayambe, 9500 feet high, young male in first plumage. " Native 

 name ' Upanga.' Iris light brown ; bare skin of face pale greyish green: feet pale 

 yellow." 



Another bird, a female, was shot at Ibarra, 6600 feet high. It is also young, 

 but part of tlio uppersidc is already moulted into the plumage of the adult bird. 

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203. Polyborus cheriway (Jacq.). 



Cayambe, 9300 feet. "Iris brown; feet yellowish white, claws brown: bill 

 yellowish white, with blue-grey base." Native name " ('uriiiuin([ue." 



204. Ictinia plumbea (Gm.). 



Paramba, 3500 feet. "Iris carmine; feet dark yellow: bill black, mandible 

 bluish black." 



205. Leptodon uucinatus (Tennn.). 



Paramba, 3500 feet. " Iris light grey; feet orange-yellow, with black claws; 

 maxilla blackish, mandible whitish, with black tip; cere greenish yellow, more 

 brown on the nostrils; bare skin round eyes bluish green, a bluish purple spot in 

 front of lower eyelid, a chrome-yellow one in front of upper eyelid." Two specimens 

 were also sent from Paramba by one of Mr. Rosenberg's correspondents. One, marked 



