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frequents fruit-trees in the Indian clearings. The young 

 males can be distinguished from the females by being more 

 red, and by having faiut white tips to the tail-feathers. They 

 were in full moult at the Coca in May, and it was difficult 

 to get any in good plumage. 



101. Rhamphoccelus icteronotus Bp, 



Confined to the Western side, and very numerous around 

 the huts at Santo Domingo, where they were still breeding 

 in October in the orange-trees, about eight feet from the 

 ground ; but the foliage was so thick and so prickly, and the 

 nests w^ere so far in, that it was impossible to get at them 

 without cutting down the trees, which their owners would 

 not let us do. I satisfied myself that one nest belonged 

 to a pair the male bird of which was not yet in complete adult 

 plumage. My very young males differ from the females 

 in having the under tail-coverts brownish black, very 

 slightly tipped with yellow, while the latter have them 

 wholly yellow. Local name, "Plataneros.^^ 



10.2. Pyranga estiva (Gm.). 



Three males and one female from Canzacota, West Ecuador 

 (6500 feet), Quito (10,000 feet), and Baeza, East Ecuador 

 (5500 feet). Our Consul at Quito told me that he had never 

 seen more than three at that altitude during the thirty 

 years he had lived there. The specimen we shot in the 

 garden during our stay at the Consulate had been in 

 the neighbourhood for several days, but was very shy and 

 tried to conceal its bright coat in the trees as much as 

 possible. 



103. EucoMETis CASsiNi (Lawr.) . 



One male, from Santo Domingo^ shot in the forest in 

 October. 



101-. Tachyphonus luctuosus Lafr. & D^Orb. 

 Three males from San Nicolas, West Ecuador, and two 

 from the Coca, Eio Napo, East Ecuador. 



105. Tachyphonus surtnamus (L.). 



One male from near the mouth of the Coca, where this 

 bird frequents the undergrowth on the edge of the forest. 



