24 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 14. N:0 25, 



Numenius hudsonicus Lath. — A female from La Caro- 

 lina "/lo 1910. »Occurs only during the rainy season, but ha& 

 been seen there for 5 years. Common at Guayaquil river. » 



Totanus melanoleucus Gml. — 1 male, 2 females from La 

 Carolina in Oct. 



Totanus flavipes Gml. — 3 specimens collected in Oct., 

 2 in Dec, and 1 in May at La Carolina. One from Tumbaco 

 at San Pedro river, 7700 f. collected ^7,. These are all mi- 

 grants found in the natural season for such birds, but it is 

 more stränge to find in this coUection a female reported from 

 Mindo (6000 f.) the 20th of June. 



Totanus solitarius Wilson. — 4 specimens from La Caro- 

 lina Jan., Febr. and March. 1 c^ & 1 $ ^7^ from Chilco, 8an 

 Pedro river. This bird is so well known that it has received a 

 native name »Chirlillo». 



Actitis macularia Lin. — 1 $ ^Ys? 1 c^ "/e» 1 c^ j^^v. ^7^, 

 1 juv. 7ii, La Carolina; 2 males & 2 females ^^^^ along river 

 San Pedro 8000 f.; 1 $ "/^ Machangara 8700 f.; 1 misexed 

 ^Vii Mindo 5500 f . This series is of a considerable interest be- 

 cause several of the birds are in the spotted, breedingplumage. 

 This is f. i. the case with a female of ^7n, and the specimen 

 of ^7^. These two may be assumed to have retained their 

 summer-plumage beyond the usual time. The female of ^7^ 

 has begun to moult into breeding plumage as it shows some 

 few spöts, but the male of '76 is in quite full breeding plumage 

 and it appears therefore rather probable, that it has been 

 breeding at the locality, where it was collected, because there 

 is no possibility that it should have been able to return south 

 to that date after an unsuccessful breeding in the north, and 

 still less after a successful one. It may thus be regarded as 

 possible, although the actual nest has not been found, that 

 this species in an analogous manner as the palearctic one 

 has been stated to do in East-Africa, at least occasionally, 

 breeds in the Andes of Ecuador. For the probability of such 

 a hypothese may also speak the fact, that this collection con- 

 tains a young bird collected as early as '7^, thus at a date, 

 when a young bird of northern origin hardly could have had 

 time to arrive there. 



'^l_ Bartramia longicauda Bechst. — 1 (^ ^0^3, Chaupicruz, 



