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The two eggs measure ir, x 9 millimitrcs, and are white without gloss, like 

 all known hummiug-binls' eggs. 



The nest measures ^ i-entimitres across outside, the cup 3i. The depth is 

 not at all great, hut the bottom very thick. 



In the birds there is a very remarkable difVereuce in size between the sexes, 

 the males being much larger, with the wing more than a centimetre longer, and 

 the bill much longer and stouter. 



11. Petasophora cyanotis (Bourc. & Muls.). 

 Pogio, road from Lojn tn Saiit;i Riis;i,, Kcuailor ; July, good i)lumage. 

 The female differs remarkably from the male, being smaller, with the wing 

 much shorter, and having a strong, glossy, copjjery wash all over the iijiper jtarts. 



12. Petasophora delphinae (Less.;. 

 In good plumage in July near Zuniiir:i and I'ogio, Ecuador. 



13. Pterophanes temmincki (Boiss.). 

 A number collected on the summit close to Sigsig, near L'neuca, in llav and 

 June, when they were in beantifnl plumage. 



14. Diphlogaena iris ("Gould). 



Count Berlepsch (7i/.s-, l^^:, p. :,".i.j) distiuguished the Ecuadorian bird sub- 

 specifieally under the name of D. ir/'s hurkleiji : but, as Mr. Salvin justly remarks 

 {Cat. B., xvi., p. 122), the difl'erences stated there are not borne out by the series 

 in the British Museum. 



Mr. Baron collected a fine series in good plumage between 8au Lucas and 

 Loja, Ecuador, at elevations of 0000 feet. They were always seen in dark canons, 

 generally over water and under overhanging rocks. Nest with eggs found not very 

 high above water in the month of December. The nest is built entirely of soft 

 greenish moss, lined insjde with the extremely soft rufous hairs of a kind of fern 

 {Osmuiiila't). It is outside 2J inches high aud 2i inches thick, the cuj) 1 iucli 

 deep and 1| broad. The two eggs measure 17 x 10 millimetres. 



Ki. Diphlogaena hesperus (jould. 

 On the road from Naranjal to Cuenca, at elevations of 10,000 feet. In gmid 

 j)lumage from October to December. 



Ki. Helianthea lutetiae (Delnttrc & Muls.). 

 Seven line specimens m good plumage, shut in May between Loja aud Zamura, 

 Ecuador, at 10,000 feet. Met with on both sides of the Andes, generally at high 

 elevations between nooO and 12,oo0 feet. 



17. Bourcieria fulgidigula <ii>ul(l. 

 From the west side of the xVihIcs, iK'ar .Mullituni, Ecuador, shot in December 

 at an elevation of 8000 feet. In beautiful plumage. Seen at elevations of from 

 GOOO to 12,0011 feet. 



Is. Bourcieria torquata (Boiss.). 

 Shot on tlu' Kio Pastassa, easi (if the Andes, in July, then being in Hue 

 plumage. 



Not distinguishable from specimens fnmi Bogota, Colombia. 



