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neck like a ruff. The females are much smaller, and black, 

 without the purple gloss. Iris yellow, but less bright in 

 the young. I fouud grasshoppers in the stomachs of three 

 examples. 



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159. Xanthura turcosa (Bp.). 



Seven males and four females from the west side of 

 Pichinclia and Mindo in November, Nanegal in July, and 

 Papallacta, East Ecuador (11,500 feet), in February. They 

 were more numerous on the Eastern Andes and went in 

 larger flocks there. I found berries of various kinds in the 

 stomachs, and also beetles. Mr. Hamilton shot one which had 

 the egg of some small species in its bill, and I killed another 

 which was eating a young bird. They have rather a harsh 

 cry, and while on the Western Andes they were always in 

 the highest trees and were decidedly shy ; at Papallacta they 

 frequented the bushes in the vicinity of the huts in flocks 

 of four or five together. Local name, "Auroras.'^ 



160. Xanthura incas (Bodd.). 



Five males and one female from Baeza, Eastern Ecuador, 

 and the small valleys below. They were in flocks of from 

 twenty to thirty and frequented very high trees, keeping up 

 an incessant chattering the whole time. The young have 

 the nape much bluer than the adults, and the blue on the 

 oheeks and forehead greenish. I believe that this species is 

 the same as that we shot in the mountains above Popayan and 

 around Pasto, in Colombia. It is found only on the eastern 

 side of the Andes in Ecuador. Local name, " Pautanja.''^ 



161. Cyanocorax violaceus (Du Bus). 



Two pairs from the Rio Suno, Upper Napo, which was 

 the only locality where we saw them. They were in couples, 

 in the tops of the high trees in the forests, and were moulting 

 in May and June. The females seem to be more grey 

 than the males. The stomach of one contained the remains 

 of a small lizard. 



[To be continued.] 



