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SOME FURTHER NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF 

 NORTH-WEST ECUADOR. 



By ERNST HARTERT. 



(Plate VIII.). 



THIS is my third little contnbutidu to the 'knowledge of the birds of North- 

 West Ecuador in Novitates ZooLOtiicAE. The first was in vol. v. (1898) 

 jip. 477— .Vi.5, the second in vol. viii. (1901) pp. :j69— 71. Since then Mr. F. W. 

 Rosenberg's correspondents have continued sending collections of birds from this 

 very interesting region, and this article discusses some of the species. 



I hope to be able to continue these notes next year. The numerous fresh collec- 

 tions, the re-examination of the old material, and the recent articles on the birds of 

 Ecuador by Salvadori and Festa in the " Bolletino dei Mnsei di Zoologia cd Anatomia 

 comp.arata della U. Universitii di Torino" 1899—1900 have brought to light new 

 species and subspecies and necessitated some corrections of former errors, besides 

 adding new localities for many interesting species. 



CUYPTITRI. 

 Tinamus latifrons Salvad. 



Tinamus latifrons Salvad., Cat. B. x.xvii. 1895. p. .JOO (W. Ecuador). 



A series from Paramba, Pulun and Lita in N.W. Ecuador seem all to belong to 

 this species. These birds (" ? " ad.) have the crown blackish brown, with rufous 

 edges to the feathers of the occiput, others (perhaps less adult ones) have the crown 

 much more mixed with chestnut-rufous, liindueck barred rusty-rufous and black ; 

 back dark olive-brown, more or less broadly (broadest in a "?" from Pulun and 

 another " ? " from Paramba) barred across with black. Chin and upper throat white, 

 lower part of throat varied and barred with brown and buff, jngnlum brown, breast 

 and abdomen whitish olive, freckled with dark olive, thighs and flanks with wide 

 cross-bars ; under tail-coverts rufous-liuff, variegated with deep brown ; primaries 

 uniform deep lirown, secondaries with much brown to the outer webs ; under wing- 

 coverts deep olive-brown, quills i'rom below widely bordered with slaty grey on the 

 inner webs. Kectrices deep brown, uniform or speckled with rufbus-bmwn, and more 

 or less rufous towards the tips. " Iris brown (grey, dark grey), feet bluish grey, bill 

 black, mandible grey." 



Wing S 235, ? ? 240, 242, 245, 250, 252 mm. Bill from forehead 35—38, 

 tarsus no — (59 mm. 



Two eggs, Paramba, March 1809, are rather short, blue, and measure 60 : 49 

 and 57| : 47 mm. 



Crypturus pileatus (Bodd.) subsp. ? 



" ?.'■ Pulun, N. Ecuador, 35(1 ft. high, "iris bright reddisli brown, feet liglit 

 brown, bill black, grey underneath," 



