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AudeSj were probably typical T. puhnarum. There is an 

 obvious difference between them, those from the Amazonian 

 side being of a duller violet, and having the head yellowish 

 green. These birds are tame in their habits^ and frequent 

 the vicinity of the huts. 



97. TaNAGKA DARWIN I (Bp.). 



Two specimens of this species were shot in the gardens of 

 the British Consulate at Quito, where they are occasionally 

 met with. They come up from the " quebrada^^ of Guapalo 

 during December and January to feed on the seeds of various 

 floweriiig-trecs, and are said to commit great damage in the 

 gardens. Their call-note is beautifully clear, and resembles 

 a long drawn-oat whistle, going up the scale and then slowly 

 descending. This is followed by a loud cry of " Guarichi " 

 uttered three times in succession. Hence the bird is locally 

 called " Guarichi.^^ 



98. Tanagra cyanocephala (Lafr. & D'Orb.). 



One male from Gualea, West Ecuador, in August. So far 

 as I can remember, the specimens collected around Popayan 

 in Colombia belonged to this species. If so, we only met 

 with it in these two localities, and we found it rather more 

 numerous in Colombia than in Ecuador, but by no means 

 common anywhere. 



99. Rhamphoccelus nigrigularis (Spix). 



A male and female killed at one shot at the Coca, Rio 

 Napo, in June. These birds were not common there, but 

 much lower down the river, at the mouth of the Tiputini, 

 I saw from the platform of our hut a flock of about thirty 

 settle for a while on the tops of some bushes not far otf, 

 two niglits in succession, just about sunset. The female is 

 brownish on the black parts, and has the scarlet not quite 

 so intense as the male. Surely it is a mistake to say that 

 this species ranges to Western Ecuador, as is stated in the 

 British Museum Catalogue (xi. p. 172). 



100. Rhamphoc(elus jacapa (L.). 



Females of this species were fairly numerous at Archidona, 

 and males only at the Coca, lower down the river. It 



