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mountain is much lighter on the vent than those from Papal- 

 lacta. At the latter locality we found this bird frequenting 

 the open meadows in the early morning. 



Family P t e R o p t o c h i d ^. 



313. SCYTALOPUS MAGELLANICUS (Lath.). 



Four males and 1 female from Pichincha and Papallacta. 

 The single male from the latter locality has the breast of a 

 comparatively light slate-colour. The female is more rusty- 

 looking on the wings than the males. We found these birds 

 difficult to shoot, for they hop along the ground so quickly 

 that they are lost to sight among the bushes at once. 



314. ScYTALOPUs SENILIS Lafp. 



One example from Pichincha, Western Andes, 13,000 feet, 

 and one from Papallacta, Eastern Andes, 11,500 feet. Both 

 are marked " males," but the Pichincha bird is decidedly the 

 lightest on the throat and abdomen and is white above the 

 nostrils. Both are brownish about the thighs and vent. 



315. ACROPTERNIS ORTHONYX (Lafp.). 



We shot two males and two females of this bird, one pair 

 near the little village of Lloa and the other pair by the 

 waterfall a thousand feet above Quito, both localities being 

 on the eastern side of Pichincha. This is where Festa 

 obtained the examples which Count Salvadori has described 

 as A. infuscatus*. I have compared our skins with those in 

 the British Museum, and they appear to belong to typical 

 A. orthonyx. The females are more rusty-looking on the 

 breast and under parts. 



[To be continued.] 



V. — Forty -four Days' Nestijig in Andalucia. 

 By Heatley Noble, F.Z.S. 



The ornithology of the south of Spain has been so well worked 

 out by the late Lord Lilford, Colonel Irby, Mr. Howard 

 Saunders, Mr. Dresser, and others that it seems alnaost an 



* Sr-e 'Ibis,' 1900. p. 394. 



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