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64. EurypyGa HELIAs (Pall.), Bp. Consp. ii. p. 144. 
One ex. “TIrides red; bill black above, orange below; legs and 
feet dirty orange, darker in front, brighter behind. Stomach con- 
tained small bones, apparently of fishes, grubs, and beetles. This 
bird was running about the margin of the river like a Sandpiper, and 
sitting on the large stones in the water.” 
7. List or Brrps COLLECTED BY Mr. FRASER IN THE VICINITY 
oF QuiTro, AND DURING Excursions TO PICHINCHA AND 
CuIMBORAZzO; witH Notes anv DescripTions or New 
Species. By Puruie Lutruey Scuater, M.A., Secretary 
TO THE SOCIETY. 
(Aves, Pl. CLIX.) 
After leaving Pallatanga in the middle of January 1859, Mr. Fraser 
returned to Riobamba. From Riobamba he made an excursion to 
Panza, a place situated on the southern slope of Chimborazo, at an 
altitude of about 14,000 feet above the sea-level, on the route to- 
wards Guaranda. The birds obtained during a short sojourn at this 
spot were of the following seventeen species* :— 
1. Oreomanes fraseri, sp.nov. 10. Myiotheretes erythropygius. 
2. Diglossa aterrima. 11. Octhoéca fumicolor. 
3. Zonotrichia pileata. 12. Muscisaxicola albifrons. 
4. Phrygilus unicolor. 13. Oreotrochilus chimborazo. 
5. Synallaxis flammulata. 14. Ramphomicron stanley. 
6. Cinclodes excelsior, sp.nov. 15. Nyctidromus, sp. 
7 albiventris, sp. nov. 16. Peristera melanoptera. 
8. Grallaria monticola. 17. Attagis chimborazensis, sp. n. 
9. Agriornis andicola, sp. nov. 
Iam not aware of any birds having been collected at a higher ele- 
vation than this series; and it will, I am sure, be interesting to the 
Society to see the curious forms which compose the feathered inha- 
bitants of these dreary and inhospitable solitudes. They are mostly 
birds of dull plumage, and belong (with the exception of the Zono- 
trichia) to genera peculiar to the South American or Neotropical 
Region ; the greater part of them being characteristic either of the 
more southern portion of the continent, or of the elevated regions of 
the mountain ranges. : 
Leaving Panza, Mr. Fraser returned to Riobamba, and thence 
proceeded to Quito, collecting on his way such species (Cathartes 
atratus, Cyanopterus discors, and Fulica chilensis) as occurred to 
him. 
The months of February and March and part of April 1859 were 
* A letter from Mr. Fraser, giving some account of this excursion, will be found 
in ‘ The Ibis,’ vol. i. p. 208. 
