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striigularis came from Bogota/ as did also the type of (unaura^ leav- 
ing ai/rimentalh^^ based on a specimen from between Quito and the 
headwaters of the Rio Napo, as the proper name for the present form. 
Was met with only on the western side, but at a much liiglier altitude (6,000 feet) 
than P. (ji-lH'iHjnUirix on the eastern side, and, unlike the latter bird, freqiiented the 
flearings. Both species continually uttered a sharp call note, remarkably loud for 
the size of the bird. 
EUTOXERES CONDAMINI (Bourcier). 
TwchilK.s condnmini Bourcier, Comjjt. Rend. Ac. Sci., XXXII, 1851, p. 187. 
Eiito.i-erei^ co)ula)innii Govhv, Mon. Troch., I, 1851, i>l. iv. 
Two specimens, from Archidona, east Ecuador, 
This very distinct species is contined solely to tlie forests at the foot of the eastern 
side of the eastern Andes, but seemed to be rare, as we saw only the two specimens 
procui-ed. Its habits resemble those of the following species [Entoxeres aquila heterura 
and Eiitoxeri')< baronil and, like them, feeds on the wild plantain flowers. 
EUTOXERES AQUILA HETERURA (Gould). 
Euto.veres heterura Gould, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., I, 1868, p. 456. 
Entoxeres aquila hetervrns Tacz.vnowski and Berlepsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 
1885, p. 102. 
Sixteen specimens, all from Santo Domingo, west Ecuador. These 
exhibit, with comparatively little variation, the characters~of heterura. 
The females, though in color practically identical with the males, are 
in size somewhat less. In immature birds the feathers of the upper 
surface ha^'e narrow dull buffy edgings. 
At Santo L>omingo, on the western side of the western Andes, we found these 
birds plentiful during the month of October. They live among the thick under- 
growth of the hot forests, are never seen out in the open, and feed on the flowers 
of the wild plantain, their curved bills exactly fitting the shape of the flowers. 
Their stomachs always contained many small insects. In their dark haunts, where 
little light penetrated, they were ditficult l)irds to see, as they have a rapid, jerky 
flight. It was often only the loud hunnning noise made by their wings that betrayed 
their presence. Sometimes they would hover for some seconds within two feet of 
one's face or an inch or two from the end of the gun or blowpipe, and then suddenly 
dart off again. Once I caught in a butterfly net one hovering thus. 
The localities Quito and Sarayacu, on the labels of the British Museum catalogue, 
are qxiite erroneous. The base of the lower mandible is very yellow in life. Local 
name, "Picocurvo." 
EUTOXERES BARONI E and CI. Hartert. 
Eutoxerett liaruni P^rnst and Cl. Hartert, Nov. Zool., I, 1894, p. 54. 
A single specimen, from Santo Domingo, west Ecuador, is referred 
to this species. Though closely allied to Euto.i'eres a. heterurcu E. 
ha roil I is apparently distinct. This example exhibits the characters 
Hxould, Mon. Troch., I, 1854, pi. xxxvii. 
^Bourcier, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1856, p. 552. 
■^ Lawrence, Ann. X. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist., VI, 1858, i>. 260. 
