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superseded by a clear grey, a process the progress of which 

 I watched in a specimen which lived for many years in the 

 Gardens of the Zoological Society. 



Mr. Sharpe also includes amongst the Buteoninse the genera 

 Morphnus and Thrasa'etus ; but as these appear to me to 

 be, notwithstanding their scutellated tarsi, essentially Hawk 

 Eagles, I defer their consideration until I reach that group. 



XLVI. — On some new Species of Birds from Westei'n Ecuador. 

 By OsBERT Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., &c. 



(Plate XIV.) 



Mr. C. Buckley, who recently enriched Mr. Godman's and 

 my collection by sending us a large series of bird-skins from 

 Bolivia, is now collecting in Ecuador, having, on leaving 

 Bolivia, paid a few months' visit to this country. Dui'ing his 

 absence from South America he instructed his native assistant, 

 Seiior Yillagomez, whom he left at Guayaquil, to proceed to 

 Puna Island and to make an excursion into the Province of 

 Loxa in quest of butterflies and birds. On Mr. Buckley's 

 return to Guayaquil from England, he found Villagomez had 

 returned with collections ; and he at once forwarded the birds 

 to us through his agent, Mr. E. T. Higgins. 



The collection altogether contains specimens of 140 species 

 of birds, many of which are of considerable interest, and some 

 new to science. These last I now propose briefly to describe, 

 reserving a more detailed account of the whole series to a 

 future occasion, by which time I trust we shall receive other 

 collections from Mr. Buckley, who, I understand, has now 

 proceeded into the interior of Ecuador, and is working in some 

 of the valleys of the eastern slope of the Andes. 



EUSCARTHMUS OCULARIS. 



Supra olivaceo-viridis, fronte media obscuriore : loris et re- 

 gione ante oculos pallide fulvescentibus : gutture nigro : 

 gula media et ventre imo albis, pectore grisescente : alis 

 et Cauda fuscis viridi limbatis, tectricibus subalaribus 



