Journey through Colombia and Ecuador. 311 



of the Coca, and kept strictly to the clearings, where they 

 sat about on the topmost twigs of the low bushes well out 

 in the open. They have a remarkably sweet song, and their 

 beautiful notes were among the first sounds to wake us in 

 the early mornings on the Napo. They must have been 

 nesting in April and May, as the Indians brought in several 

 nestlings. We never saw or shot a specimen lower down the 

 Napo than where the Coca joins it. There appears to be a 

 little difference between the Popavan and Napo skins ; the 

 latter are a trifle darker on the upper side, and whiter on the 

 vent. 



6. CiNCLUS LEUCONOTUS Scl. 



2 d's, 1 5 from Papallacta, East Ecuador, 11,500 feet. 

 These birds frequent the rocks in the river-beds, and our 

 specimens were procured near the source of a hot spring 

 flowing from the side of the mountain. The crown and 

 nape of the female are much mottled with black and light 

 grey. Iris brownish red in the S and grey in the 5 . 



7. Myiadestes ralloides (Lafr. & D'Orb.). 

 Milligalli, Gualea, and near Mindo, Western Ecuador, at 



altitudes of from 4000 to 6600 feet. Frequents the tops of 

 rather high trees. 



8. Myiadestes coracinus (Berlp.). (Plate VIII.) ^ 



6 . This rare species we shot in the dense forests below 

 Baeza, at an altitude of probably 4000 feet, on our journey 

 down to the Napo. It was one of the exceedingly few birds 

 we met with in these gloomy forests, and in this case a pair of 

 them were together in the top of a high tree. Our attention 

 was attracted by their metallic-sounding call-note, uttered 



* [This remarkable species was first described by Graf v. Berlepsch 

 in 1897 (Orn. Monatsb. 1897, p. 175), from a single specimen in his 

 collection, which had been obtained by Herr Gustav Hopke near St. 

 Pablo, in S.W. Colombia. It is a close ally of M, leucotis (Tsch.) of 

 Peru. There is a single example of it in the Tring Museum which, 

 by the kindness of Mr. Rothschild, I have been able to compare with 

 Mr. Goodfellow's skin. It was obtained along with other birds from 

 some part of Northern Colombia, probably from Antioquia, but the exact 

 locality is not known. — P. L. S.] 



