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:i. Turdus gigas Fnis. 

 Near Cayambe, between OlMJU and li),UOO feet. " Iris dark red ; bill orange ; 

 feet deep yellow, with brown claws." Wing S ad. 10'^ mm. 



4. Turdus leucops Taez. 

 J, Paramba, 3oiii) feet. " Iris pale liluisli ; bill and feet orange." 



5. Turdus ustulatus swainsoni (I'ab.). 



Paramba, March olst, Ib'.)^ : sent, like the former, by Mr. Rosenberg's 

 correspondents. 



(J. Catharus dryas (ionhl. 

 ?,rhimbo, August '..'oth, IsUT. 



T. Polioptila schistaceigula Hart. 



S, December 5th, I8i)(j, Cachavi. I have described this new bird in /yi///. 

 B. U. C. VII. (1808). ]). 30. The entire throat and foreueck are slate-colour, and 

 this character distingnishes P. sckistaci'i()Hla from all the other species of the genns. 



8. Trog'lodytes furvus albicans Berlp. 



(Jachavi and Paramba. These birds seem to belong to Borlepsch's albicms 

 {P. Z. S. 1883. p. 54U). 



'.». ThryopMlus nigricapillus (h^cL). 



A large series from Cachavi and Chimbo. The former differ from tlie latter in 

 having tlie upper breast thoroughly barred across the jiigulnm, but I agree with 

 iSharpe {Cat. B. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 'Z\ii) that this difi'erence is not specific, and I 

 have no doubt it is due to age, and that even T. schotti is to be united with 

 niyricapillus. 



Hi. Microcerculus bicolor marginatus (Scl.). 



S, Cacliavi, l)eeember 11th, l8'.Hi. "Iris brown ; maxilla and feet black ; 

 mandible whitish, with black tip." dA. margi/iattts is only a poor subspecies of 

 bicolor. 



11. Anthus bogotensis Scl. 



One male from Cayambe, shot about l(.),ii(ii) feet above the sea. It is very pale 

 below, and its wings are only 83 mm. long. 



1'.'. Parula pitiayumi (Vieill.). 

 Very common at Chimbo, from July to September. 



13. Geothlypis semiflava Scl. 

 Paramba, two iiui.li:s and two female n. 



