498 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS OF LIMA. [May 16, 



neis : long, tota 38, alee 2*75, caudce 1*4 : cauda vix rotundata, 

 alts brevibus, remigibus tertio quarto quinto et sexto fere 

 cequalibus. 



Hab. Vicinity of Lima {Nation) ; Babahoyo, Western Ecuador 

 (Fraser). 



Amongst the birds collected by Mr. Fraser in Ecuador was a spe- 

 cimen of a small Todirostrum-\\ke species, shot at Babahoyo in August 

 1859, which from its bad condition I was unable to determine, and 

 entered in my list of his collection (P. Z. S. 1860, p. 283) as Todi- 

 rostrum, sp.? In my American Catalogue (p. 209) I associated 

 this specimen with another imperfect skin of a bird of the same group 

 previously obtained by Fraser at Nanegal (P. Z. S. 1860, p. 93), but, 

 I now believe, erroneously ; for I subsequently convinced myself that 

 the Nanegal skin was merely Euscarthmus squamicristatus (Lafr.) 

 in young plumage. But Mr. Fraser's Babahoyo skin is certainly the 

 same as that of which Professor Nation now sends an excellent skin 

 from Lima. 



E. fulviceps seems to be distinguishable from all other members 

 of the genus that I am acquainted with by its fulvous head. Mr. 

 Nation sends me the subjoined note on it. 



"In 1869 I discovered this interesting little Tyrant in an Acacia- 

 grove, situated between a marsh and the sea-shore, about ten miles 

 from Lima. Subsequently I have visited this place many times, and 

 have always found a few of these birds in company with individuals 

 of Eupsilostoma in the extremities of the branches ; but, as far as I 

 know, it is not met with elsewhere in this district. Its habits so 

 much resemble those of the Eupsilostoma that for many years I con- 

 founded the two species together. 



" The food of this bird consists of sedentary insects. Its irides 

 are brownish black." — W. N. 



4. AN.KRETESALBOCRisTATTjs(Vig.); Sclater, Cat. Am. B. p. 21 2. 



" This beautiful little tyrant is only an accidental visitor in the 

 vicinity of Lima. One Sunday afternoon, in December 1868, I saw 

 three individuals of this species in an Acacia tree overhanging a river. 

 On the following morning I succeeded in finding them in the same 

 tree and in shooting one ; in the course of the week following I 

 managed to obtain the other two. The birds proved to be an adult 

 female and her two young ones. They were very restless, and con- 

 tinually moving from one twig to another. The food of this species 

 appears to be exclusively insects. The irides are brownish blue. 



"On the 8th of February, 1871, 1 again found this species, sixty 

 miles up the siver, at an altitude of 3000 feet." — W. N. 



5. Amazilia pristina, Gould. 



" As I write an Amazilia pristina has been sitting perched on a 

 plant in the garden outside my window, singing delightfully at in- 

 tervals. Rhodopis vesper, Thaumastura cora, and Th. francescce 

 seem to be silent species." — W. N. 



