iMr. P. L. Sclater on Birds from the Republic of Ecuador. 279 



on the apical half of the outer margin and the tip of the outer feather 

 with dark browii ; a crescent of the same, but of a much paler hue, 

 at the tip of the next ; a still fainter mark of the same colour near 

 the tip of the external web of the third ; and a nearly obsolete mark, 

 of a similar tint, in the same situation on the fourth ; lores and ear- 

 coverts brown ; on the chin and throat a lengthened triangular mark 

 of black, bounded on either side by a narrow line of greyish-white, 

 and below by a broad band of deep sandy-buflF crossing the throat ; 

 centre of the'abdomen greyish-buff; under tail-coverts olive, narrowly 

 edged with grevish-buff ;" bill black, with the cutting edge of the 

 upper mandible" and the basal three-fourths of the under one pearly- 

 white ; feet yellow. 



Total length, 4| inches ; bill, \-^ ; whig, 2f ; tail, 1^. 



Hab. Quijos, in Ecuador. 



List of a Collection of Birds received by Mr. Gould, 

 from the province of quijos in the republic of 

 Ecuador. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A. 



Among the many novelties in ornithology lately received by 

 Mr. Gould from different parts of the world, is a small but valuable 

 collection of birds from the province of Quixos, or Quijos, in the 

 repubhc of Ecuador. This country, which lies on the eastern slope of 

 the Andes, where the Rio Napo and other adjoining tributaries of the 

 mighty Amazon take their rise, is a very interesting locality to those 

 who study South American ornithology, being intermediate between 

 New Grenada — whence so many new forms have lately been sent to 

 Europe— on the one side, and the wood regions of Peru and Bolivia, 

 where Von Tschudi and D'Orbigny pursued their laborious researches 

 in natural history, on the other. 



Mr. Gould having most liberally placed this collection in my hands 

 for examination, I have drawn up a complete list of the species as far 

 as I can determine them satisfactorily, in order to show the character 

 of the ornithology of this country— observing that Mr. Gould is ex- 

 pecting fresh consignments from the same quarter, which will doubt- 

 less much further increase our knowledge of the fauna of this highly 

 interesting region. 



HiRUNDINIDiE. 



1. Acanthylis aJhicolUs (Vieill.). 



Hirundo albicollis, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xiv. 524 (1817). 



Hirundo coUaris, Wied, Reise nach Bras. i. p. 75 (1820), et 

 Beit. z. Nat. iii. p. 344. 



Acanthylis coUaris, Gray's Gen. i. p. 55. sp. 6. 



This fine spine-tailed Swift seems generally distributed over the 

 northern portion of the continent. It was observed by Prince Max. 

 of Neuwied in many provinces of Brazil, by Schomburgk in British 

 Guiana, and Sir William Jardine has examples transmitted by Professor 

 Jameson from the vicinity of Quito. Mr. Gosse has recorded its ap- 

 pearance in Jamaica. 



