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148. Florisuga mellivora ( L.)- 

 ( 'ommon at Paraiuba, where the)' fed on a kind of raimossi. 



1 1'J. Thalurania fannyi (liumc. A: Uilattro). 



Chimbo, Paramba, on mimosa flowers. " Feet fiesh-colour, with blackish 

 scales and black claws. Stomachs full of remains of minute insects, especially 

 elytra of coleoptera." 



l-iii. Damophila julie feliciana (Less.). 



This subspecies, which diliiis considerably from D. julie julie by its longer 

 bill, a character in which it n'scmblrs J), julie panamensis Berljj., which, however, 

 has no glittering crown, was common at Chimbo. 



l-"il. Chalybura urochrysea (<Jonld). 



Five males from Cachavi, lint wo Je male. "The feet arc Hesh-colonr, claw? 

 black : maxilla black, mandible flesh-cidour, with black tip." 



This species is not on record from Ecuador, but known to e.vtend to the Canca 

 Valley, a little more northwards. 



lo2. Heliodoxa jacula jamesoni (Hourc). 



Cachavi, Chimbo. This Ecuadorian subspecies of 11. jacula only diflfers in its 

 longer bill (a character more develojud in the female) and its shorter tail from 

 H. jacula jacula, the crown being as black in one ,ts it is in the other of the two 

 forms. 



l-i:i. Panoplites jardinei (Hourc). 



i jnv., I'aramba, Ai>ril r<;th, 1697. The first plumage is, according to this skin, 

 dull blaokish brown, with some brown speckles to the tips of the feathers, those of 

 the rump with broad rusty brown tips. Under wing-coverts, except those nearest 

 to the tips, chestnut. Outer web of first primary chesttint-ruious for half its length, 

 feathers on forehead with rufous tijis. 



lo4. Popelairia conversi aequatorialis Berlp. 



Two males from Chimbo differ from Bogota skins in having a deeper blue 

 pectoral spot and a distinctly longer bill. 1 therefore believe that there are good 

 reasons for the separation of aequatorialiis, although Salviu does not consider it 

 worth discussion, and although Berlepsch himself wi-ites me that he does not adhere 

 to it any more. 



Quito. 



Ibarra. 



S , I'aramba. 



lo.x Chaetocercus bombus tiould. 

 lofi. Acestrura mulsanti (Bourc). 

 loT. Calliphlox mitchelli (Hourc). 



