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Linnaeus or Giuelin in tliu Si/i<tema Naturae. In this case, nevertheless, 

 there is no reason to reject the name nilotica as insisted on iiy Stejnegor (Auk 

 1884. p. 364), the diagnosis being iierfectly clear, and I therefore follow tlie 

 American ornithologists, Gra)', Hnme, Reichenow, and others in accepting the 

 name nilotica for the Gnll-billed-Tern.j 



c? ad., S juv. sea-shore near Vaiiueria, September 19ul. 



UHARADRIIDAE. 



Aphriza virgata (Gm.). 



Trinqa cinjata Gm., Si/st. Nut. i. (17S.SJ j). 074 (e.K Latham ; Sandwich Sound), 

 c? ?. September 16. 1901, on the sea-shore near Vaqueria. 



(A number of Ardeiilac have been obtained in various places : 

 EmiKimaii albus juv., i)Ientiful on the shore near Vaqneria. 

 IlildiatMssa tricolor riijicollia, from Vaqueria. 

 Florida caerulea, also Vaqueria. 

 Agamia uyami., Pambilar. 

 Cancroma cockltaria juv., Salidera. 



Tigriisoma liueata (cf. Nov. Zool. 1902. p. 1~'3), Paramba. 

 Nijctaimism dolacea, Vaqueria.) 



ACCIPITRES. 



(Ilji/ctcr americaiius, S. Javier. 

 Jjejttodon cayeiinensis, Pulun. 

 Urubitiiiya urubitinya, Pulun.) 



Leucopternis princeps Scl. 



Leurojiteniis priitcepa Scl., I'.X.S. 180o. p. 429. PI. XXIV. (Costa Rica, in 

 montibus). 



" ?." Rio Cayapas, N. Ecuador, 11. xi. 1901. " Iris dark brown, i'eet yellow, 

 bill greyish, tip darker, base light yellow." (AVith" base" the cere is evidently 

 meant.) 



This skin agrees i)erfectly with specimens from ('osta Rica and I'ebago Island. 



The similarity in plumage of this bird and Gera/ioaetus melaiioleucus is very 

 striking. 



{Leueo]jteriii.s plumbea and ttemiiihimbca, Paramba and S. Javier.) 

 {Accipiter veiitrali.^ Scl. A small bird, aiqiarently a malt', though marked 

 "?," wing ITo mm., "iris yellow, feet yellow, bill black, below at base greyish," 

 was shot at Ibarra, 7ilOO ft. high, on June 2nd, 1899. It appears to belong to 

 A. ventralia, though its colouration is very singular ; underside deep chestnut, 

 deepest on abdomen and thighs, throat and breast striped mesially with slate- 

 colour. I think it is a young bird of the year.) 



STRIGES. 



{Ciccaba niyrolineutu and ciryata, Buh'im. 

 Ftdmtrix j/crcii<j/illata, S. Javier.) 



