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to be similar in the first plumage, to judge from the young 

 moulting female. 



Carbo vigua Vieill. — 1 Vo Lake Jaguarcocha near 

 Ibana, about 8000 f. Local name »Cuervo». 



»Also found sometimes at Rio San Pedro, Chillo, and the 

 rivers near Santo Domingo de los Colorados, but seldom more 

 t han one bird at one place. » They are thiis only wandering 

 birds. 



Plotus anhinga Lin. — A specimen caught alive at La 

 Carolina ^Vs 1900, the only one ever seen there. 1 c^ ^7ii 1^19 

 from Rio Curaray, 2000 f . The Anhingas are common at river 

 Napo and other rivers of the eastern low land. 



Vultur gryphus Lin. — • 1 c^ ^Vs Pichincha, 1000 f.; 1 

 speimen near Zambiza, 8000 f. 



Coragyps atratus foetens Wied. — \ ^ ^76 near Machangara 

 river 8800 f., 1 ad. ^Vi, outside Quito 9300 f.; 4 pnll. in down, 

 Quebrada near Cumbaya 8000 f. collected resp. "/g, ^^/e ^^^ 

 ^77- Consul Söderström remarks about this species: »only 

 a few near Quito, rather shy». 



Cathartes perniger Sharpe. — 1 specimen from Cum- 

 baya, 8000 f.; collected ^^ g agrees with Sharpe's descrip- 

 tion. The general colour is black with a purplish blue gloss. 

 The shafts of the tailfeathers and quills brown above white 

 below, but there is no shade of ashy on the median wing-coverts 

 as in C. a. faldandicus. Length of wing 480 mm. 



»Found at sandy places near Cumbaya and Tumbaco, 

 feeds on snakes etc, a most graceful flyer, sails along without 

 one flapping of the wings. » (L. S.) This species is not men - 

 tioned for Ecuador by Brabourne & Chubb. 



Polyhorus cherhvay Jaquin. — 1 $ 78' Carapungo, north- 

 east of Quito, 8500 f. Local name »Curuquingue ». 



Ibycter americanus Bodd. — 1 sp. '76? near village of 

 Napo; 1 $ Vs T^osid to Gualea; 1 sp. ^7u> Alonguinche south of 

 Mojanda 9000 f. This species thus occurs as well on the eastern 

 as on the western side of the Andes and on the high plateau. 



Ibycter carunculatus Des ÄIurs. — 1 ? 76' 1 c^ "/? Chau- 

 picruz, north of La Carolina, 9600 f.; 1 o ^74' western side of 

 Antisana, 11000 f.; 1 $ '7^ eastern side of Corazon, 11000 f.; 



