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rump and dark throat. It is obviously a very distinct species, 

 as will be seen from the figure. 



The types of this species were obtained in May 1899 at 

 El Paillou, near Buenaventura, in the same forest as those of 

 C. emilice. The specimen in the Tring Museum, from which 

 the figure has been taken^ was procured by Mr, Mikelta at 

 Paramba, a farm on the western bank of the river Mira, in 

 N.W. Ecuador {cf. Hartert, Nov. Zool. v. p. 478), on August 

 16th, 1898. It is labelled by the collector " S ■ ii'is dark 

 brown ; feet bluish ; bill dark." 



There are also two skins of this species in the British 

 Museum, lately received from the well-known collector 

 Mr. P. O. Simons. They were obtained, in July 1900, at 

 Oroya and Rio Yinimbare, Peru. 



XLIII. — On a few Additions to the Birds of Lucknow^. 

 By William Jesse. 



A district like that of Lucknow, lying in the centre of 

 territory long in the possession of the British, with a com- 

 paratively large European sporting population, civil and 

 military, is not likely to contain much that is novel in orni- 

 thology — the more so, as all Northern India has been 

 worked by enthusiasts stirred by the examples of Hodgson, 

 Jerdon, Blyth, and Hume. We can only hope to add a few 

 fresh species to the fauna of the neighbourhood and to gather 

 further information about those already recorded. Much has 

 yet to be learnt regarding migration, both general and local, 

 which may give us clues to meteorological facts of which we 

 are at present ignorant. There is no doubt whatever that 

 mammals and birds — the latter especially — are able in some 

 way to forecast the weather; and, if their yearly wanderings 

 were more accurately observed, it is possible that conclusions 

 drawn therefrom would not prove altogether valueless to the 

 Meteorological Department. Be this as it may, there is 

 much to interest a lover of birds even in such a well-worked 

 spot as the capital of Oudh. That the results of my recent 



* For previous notes see Ibis, 189G, p. 18-j ; 1897, p. 5o4 ; and 1890, 

 p. 344. 



