10 Mr. C. Chubb o7i Birds from [Ibis, 



Adult male. Allied to P. montagnii Bonap. which Avas 

 described from Colombia, but differing from that species in 

 having the upper surface for the most part dark oil-green 

 instead of bronze-brown, the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts brown, with dark rufous edgings to the feathers 

 instead of uniform rufous-chestnut, chin and throat black 

 instead of grey, the breast darker and the pale margins to 

 the feathers more contrasting, and the abdomen dusky 

 brown with dark rufous mottlings, instead of rufous brown 

 with dark mottlings. 



" Bill deep yellow-chrome ; feet red ; iris brown ; face and 

 throat red'' {W. Goodfellow). 



Total length 512 ram,, exposed culmen 33, wing 234, 

 tail 192, tarsus 61. 



The type was collected at Baeza, eastern Ecuador, 

 6000 feet, by W. Goodfellow in April 1914, and presented 

 to the British Museum by Mr. E. J. Brook, in whose 

 honour the species is named. 



There are four other specimens from Ecuador in the 

 National Collection which support the characters given in 

 the above description. 



Penelope aequatorialis. 



Penelope (Equatorialis Salvad. & Festa, Boll. Mus. Torino, 

 XV. No. 368, 1900, p. 38 : Foreste del llio Peripa, W. 

 Ecuador ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 1912, p. 10, 

 no. 97. 



Penelope cristata (nee Linn) Berl. & Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, 

 p. 736 : Chimbo ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. 

 1892, p. 498 (part) (spec, n, Balzar Mts.) ; Hartert, Nov. 

 Zool. V. 1898, p. 504 : Paramba. 



The bird collected by Simons belongs to the form which 

 occurs in western Ecuador, Colombia, and Central America, 

 and for a long time has been known as P. cristata Linn. 

 This name, however, cannot stand as it was founded by 

 Linne ou jMarcgrave's Jacupema (Hist. Nat. Bras. p. 198, 

 cum fig. 1648 : District of Pernambuco). It must therefore 



