( 615 ) 



In 1898 I recorded the W. Ecuadorian form as persjjicillata, from a single skin 

 from Cachavi. With a series now from Lita (3000 ft.), Pambihir, Buli'm, and S. 

 Javier, 1 find Salvadori's and Festa's proposal to distinguish the W. Ecuadorian 

 perfectly justititnl, although I wouhl consider these forms onlj- subspecifically 

 separable. The npperside is deep olive-brown with a few narrow buff shaft-strii)es 

 to the feathers of the interscapulium, thus differing from the various Central 

 American forms known to me. On November IStli the young was caught at Bulun. 

 It is covered with quite downy chestnut feathers, darker above. Another young 

 specimen, advanced in moult, was caught at Buh'ui on November 15tli. 



Pittasoma rufopileatum Hart. 



(Plate VIII.) 



Pittasoma nifopileatum Hartert, Nov. Zool. VIII. 1901. p. 370 (N.W. 

 Ecuador). 



This most interesting species has been fully described in the last volume of this 

 journal. The young bird resembles the adult female, if the specimens are correctly 

 se.xed, but there is some discrepancy in the se.x-notes on the labels. 



PTEROPTOCHIDAE. 

 Scytalopus analis de La Fresn. 



Mer)da.ris analis de La Fresnaye, Rci:. Zool. 1840. p. 104 (? Paraguay or 

 Chili). 



"c?." Paramba, N. Ecuador, 3500 ft., 7. viii. 1899, No. 498. 



" Iris brown, feet dark brown, bill black." 



This bird agrees with De La Fresnaye's description and with the specimens 

 from Bogota in the British Museum, and I am therefore of opinion that it belongs 

 to S. analis. 



DENDROCOLAPTIDAE. 

 Sclerurus guatemalensis salvini Salvad. et Festa. 



Sderuriis salvini Salvad. et Festa, Boll. 2fiis. Zool. et Anat. Comp. Tor. 

 No. 362. p. 23 (1899 : R. Peripa, W. Ecuador). 



A series from S. Javier and Bulun differs from S. guatemalensis (a series from 

 Costa Rica, Cherrie coll., compared) only in the darker, more deep olive-brown, less 

 rufous, colour of the upperside, breast, and abdomen. The bill is not constantly 

 longer, nor is the more greyish tinge on the inner webs of the remiges at all 

 constant. The difference of Sclerunts (/iiatemalensi.'i salvini from typical (jiiati'mnlen.vs 

 is almost exactly the same as that between Sclerurus mexicanas obscurior Hart, and 

 typical mexicanus. (Cf. Nov. Zool. 1901. j>. 37o.) 



