22 Mr. P. L. Sclater on Pvlilvago carunculatus. 



vient de la Nouvelle-Granade. Ceux de M. d'Orbigny venaient 

 de la Bolivie. Ailes venant presque au niveau de la queue. 

 1845. 0. Des Murs. 



To this I am enabled to add a few particulars under the fol- 

 lowing circumstances : — Shortly after the publication of the 

 article in last yearns ' Ibis/ I received a collection of birds, formed 

 by Mr. Fraser on Pichincha and in other elevated localities in 

 the neighbourhood of Quito, of which I have given a list in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society for the past year (P. Z. S. 

 1860, p. 73). The Milvago, of which one example was in the 

 collection, I then observed, was evidently of the species named 

 by M. Des Murs carunculatus, and quite distinct from the 

 Bolivian M. megalopterus {montanus, D'Orb.), to which I had 

 previously referred similar examples collected by Mr. Fraser in 

 Ecuador*, though not without remarking on their apparent dif- 

 ference from the usual plumage of the latter species. The ex- 

 amples of this Milvago collected by Mr. Fraser have been placed 

 by Mr. J.H. Gurney in the Norwich Museum. They are all three 

 in adult plumage, as is also the fine example represented in the 

 accompanying illustration (Plate I.), for which I have to thank 

 Mr. Gurney. The present specimen, which is destined to adorn 

 the Museum of Bremen, was received by Mr. Gould with other 

 birds from the Rio Napo, on the eastern slope of the Andes of 

 Ecuador. 



The synonymy of Milvago carunculatus will now stand as 

 follows : — 



Phalcobanus carunculatus, Des Murs, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, 



p. 154. 

 Milvago megalopterus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 555 (err.). 

 Milvago carunculatus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 81. 



Its habitat must be extended to the higher Andean ranges of 

 the republic of Ecuador (alt. 14,000 feet), where Mr. Eraser's 

 examples were procured. I have already given Mr, Eraser's 

 remarks on the habits, colouring of the soft parts, &c., in full in 

 the ' Proceedings ' (/. c.) ; but I have to thank him for the follow- 

 ing additional note : — 



* See P. Z. S. 1858, p. 555. 





