19 1 9-] Ecuador, Perif, Bolivia, and Argentina. 4<7 



Nos. 978, 978 a. Cangunana, W. Ecuador^ 1500 metres, 

 8 July, 1899. 



I have compared the three l)irds enumerated above with 

 three others in the Biitish Museum, and find them to be 

 very similar in colour of plumage and in wing and tail 

 measurements, There is one individual, however, from 

 Baeza in eastern Ecuador, which appears to differ from the 

 other six, and which I propose to deal with separately. 



G-eotrygon bourcieri baeza. 



Geotrijgon bourcieri baeza Chubb, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 

 xxxviii. 29 Dec. 1917, p. 33. 



This bird is similar to G. bourcieri bourcieri, but differs in 

 being paler and more grey on the under surface, darker on 

 the upper parts, and larger in size. "Iris brown ; eyelids red ; 

 bill black; nostrils reddish; feet red" [W. Goodfellow). 



Total length 300 mm., exposed culmen 18, wing 164<, 

 tail 106, tarsus 43. 



The average wiug-measurement of the six birds belonging 

 to G. b. bourcieri from western Ecuador is 150 mm. and the 

 tail 88 mm. 



The type, which is in the British Museum, was collected 

 by W. Goodfellow in Felu'uary 1914, and presented to the 

 National Museum by Mr. E. J. Brook. 



Habitat. Baeza, eastern Ecuador, altitude 6000 feet. 



Family Eallid^. 



RallTis 8Bquatorialis. 



Rallus cequatorialis Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii. 1894, 

 p. 18 : San Lucas, Ecuador. 



No. 665. Canar, Ecuador, 2600 metres, 20 April, 1899. 

 Native name " Patita." " Iris dull red ; bill and feet red " 

 (P. 0. Simons). 



This specimen is very similar to the type which is in the 

 British Museum, but differs in having the lower abdomen 

 and vent isabelline-buff. 



a. Imm. Antisara, E. Ecuador, 1200 ft., October 1914. 

 "Iris dark red; bill scarlet towards the tip of the upper 

 matulible ; feet dingy yellow" {JV. Goodfellow) . 



