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and base of bill dark red. The male is decidedly more blue 

 around the eyes than the female. 



Fam. CAPITONIDyE. 



486. Capito BouRciERi (Lafr.). 



Four males and a female from Santo Domingo and Guaua- 

 cillo, western forests. Local name " Ruisenor.'^ 



487. Capito kichardsoni (Gray). 



A male from near Archidoua, Eastern Ecuador, 



488. Capito punctatus (Less.). 



Two males and a female from Archidona and the Rio Coca. 



489. Capito squamatus Salv. 



Capito squamatus Salv. Ibis, 1876, p. 494, pi. xiv. 



A pair of these rare Bar bets from Santo Domingo. It 

 was quite dusk when we saw three of them on the bare 

 branch of a tree near the edge of the forest. We killed two 

 at one shot, but as they fell among the undergrowth, and 

 it was too dark to see, we only recovered one, a female. 

 The next evening at the same hour, and on the same tree, 

 we saw another, which we shot, and it proved to be a male. 

 It has the whole of the breast and abdomen white, with a 

 wash of pale sulphur-colour on the fore part of the chest. 

 The thighs are of a darker and more greenish black than in 

 the female. The whole of the back, shoulders, and rump are 

 glossy blue-black, with some brownish feathers on the nape. 

 The wings are more clearly marked with white than in the 

 female, and the undersides are entirely yellowish white. 

 The male has also a much redder forehead. In the female 

 the back, shoulders, and rump are narrowly edged with 

 greyish white, and the throat and upper part of the breast 

 are black. The stomachs contained berries, beetles, and 

 moths. Iris yellow. The single unsexed type skin in the 

 British Museum is a female. 



490. Tetragonops rhamphastinus Jard. 



Seven males and three females from Gualea and Intag, 

 Western Ecuador. Generally to be found singly among the 

 lower forest trees. 



