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4. List or Brrps coLitectep sy Mr. FRASER AT EsMERALDAS, 
Ecvapor, wirn Descriptions or New Species. By P.L. 
ScLATER. 
Mr. Fraser passed part of October, November, and December 1859, 
at Esmeraldas, on the coast of Ecuador, on his route from Guayaquil 
to Panama by sea. During his stay he collected about 170 speci- 
mens of birds, belonging to 93 species, of which I have subjoined the 
names, as far as I have been able to determine them. Many of the 
species obtained at Babahoyo occur again in the present series ; but 
there are several new and of interest which were here met with for 
the first time. 
1. Potroprixa BrLinEATA (Bp.): Sclater, P. Z.S. 1855, p. 12. 
Two ex. Stomach contained insects.” 
2. CYPHORINUS PHHOCEPHALUS, sp. nov. 
Supra saturate brunneus, pileo nigricante: alis et cauda extus 
nigro obsolete transfasciolatis: subtus dilutior : gula, collo et 
pectore toto antico intense ferrugineo-rufis: rostro nigricanti- 
corneo: pedibus fuscis. 
Long. tota 4-8, alee 2°5, caudze 1:3. 
Hab. In rep. Equator. Occ. 
Mus. P.L.S. 
Two ex. “Flying from bush to bush, singing: some four or five 
others near the same spot.” 
Nearly allied to C. modulator, D’Orb.; but distinguished by its 
dusky head, larger bill, and the deeper brown colouring of the throat. 
3. THRYOTHORUS NIGRICAPILLUS, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p- 84. 
Three examples. The specimen previously described was not 
quite mature. An adult bird has the whole throat and breast pure 
white, the cross-markings having disappeared. 
4. TRoGLopyTEs FURVUS (Gm.). 
Two examples. 
5. DenpR@ca auREoLA (Gould)? 
Sylvicola aureola, Gould, Zool. Beagle, ii. p. 86. pl. 28. 
One ex., probably a female of this species, which is doubtless the 
representative of D. estiva in this region. 
6. GEOTHLYPIS SEMIFLAVA, Sclater, antea, p. 273. 
Examples of both sexes. 
7. PARULA BRASILIANA (Licht.). 
One ex. 
8. BASILEUTERUS SEMICERVINUS, Sclater, antea, p. 84, 
One ex. : 
