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found, because northern birds must have returned in the 

 middle of June. The length of the wing of this latter is only 

 167 mm. 



About La Carolina Consul Söderström has communicated 

 the following: »La Carolina is a small marshy place outside 

 Quito (5 kilometers distant north). In the rainy season it 

 is covered with water and many ducks and other water-fowls 

 alight there. The people living in the huts along the road 

 are always on the lookout for the birds and almost invariably 

 kill them witliin an hour or so about of their arrival. The 

 ducks are now never left to breed there. All the specimens 

 labeled La Carolina have been collected there, but their breed- 

 ing places may be very far away. » 



lonornis martinica Lin. — 3 males, 2 females and a young 

 specimen collected at La Carolina in Febr. and March. One 

 of the specimens is in transgression from the juvenile plumage. 



Fulica ardesiaca Tschudi. — A female of ^74 ^^^ ^ female 

 and a young bird from Nov. all collected in Lake Mica, Anti- 

 sana, 13500 f. have a påle shield and may be referred to this 

 species with full certainly. It is said to occur in all the small 

 lakes from 9 to 14 thousand feet. »Formerly very common 

 at Jaguaracocha near Ibarra but there is none in the lake 

 now.» (L. S. 1920.) Native name »Gallareta». 



1 male and 2 young specimens from La Carolina resp. 

 May and Nov.; 1 male from Jaguaracocha, 8000 f. ^ViiJ 1 from 

 a small lake at Antisana, '/g- 



All the adult of these have red shields and green legs. 

 The difference in the colouring of the shields of these different 

 specimens is very striking. Various authors have also re- 

 corded different colours as characteristic for the frontal shield 

 of this Coot. It is, of course, very difficult to offer any exact 

 explanation of this, when one has not had the opportunity 

 of observing the birds under their natur al conditions. It 

 may, however, be assumed, that the bright red and strongly 

 swollen shields belong to breeding males, and that those 

 that are påle belong to females and young birds. 



Podiceps calipareus Less. — 4 males and 1 female from 

 Lake Mica, western side of Antisana, collected in the months 

 of Jan., April, June and Sept. »Iris pink.» It is according 

 to Consul Söderström still common, but only found in lakes 



