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inner secondaries) brown-black; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 black; quills below dark grey; longer upper tail-coverts and upper 

 surface of the tail grey, the Literal feathers black al the tips, the outer 

 one- almost entirely black, edged with white a1 the tips and pari of 

 the outer webs: 'bill yellowish brown; feel yellow; iris carmine, with 

 an inner ring brownish' (Taczanowski)." 



I i male "(>ale brown above instead of vinous grey; the dark -pots 

 on the wings as in the male; middle of the throat white; rest of the 

 underparts very pale buffy brown, almost white on the abdomen; 

 under tail-coverts dusky grey with broad whitish edges; greater upper 

 wing-coverts edged with white; tail as in the male, only the grey part 

 with a slight brown wash." 



Measurements. — Male: wing, 89; tail, 69; exposed culmen, 12.7; 

 tarsus, iS. Female (one specimen): wing, 91; tail, 67; exposed cul- 

 men, 13 : tarsus, 1 7. 



Range. — Western Keuador, west of the Andes, south into extreme 

 northwestern Peru. 



Remarks. — Of this species I have been able to examine but one 

 specimen (No. 55,002, Collection U. S. National Museum, Guayaquil, 

 Ecuador), a female in not very good condition, and am accordingly 

 obliged to reproduce Count Salvador's very full description, con- 

 verting his measurements for the male into millimeters. Structurally 

 this species is close to C. talpacoti, possessing a narrow line of feathers 

 on the outer side of the tarsus, but in general coloration it suggests 

 C. minuta, differing, however, in its larger size, plain dusky remiges, 

 and blackish under wing-coverts — all of which characters it shares 

 wit h C. talpacoti. 



It was described by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin in 1877 from a 

 pair of birds taken by Mr. C. Buckley at Santa Rita, Ecuador, 10 and 

 several years later was met with by M. Taczanowski in the neighbor- 

 hood of .Guayaquil, and subsequently traced southward into north- 

 western Peru. Its known range is thus very restricted, not approach- 

 ing thai of either C. talpacoti or C. rufipennis. Nothing is on record 

 concerning its habits, and very few specimens have so far found their 

 way into collections. 



10 This locality does not appear on any map to which I have access, but according 

 to Mr. C. E. Hellmayr it is in the Guayaquil district of western Ecuador. Unless 

 confirmed by subsequent work, all of Buckley's localities are open to question. 









