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green (instead of yellowish-green) back, much brighter yellow edges 

 to the remiges, and by having the median and greater wing-coverts 

 broadly edged with bright yellow. As a rule, the cinereous 

 colour of the pileum is somewhat darker, and the tail on the 

 average shorter. 



Specimens from jSr.W. Ecuador measure as follows : — 

 (d")ad. S.Javier: wing 66 ; tail 53 ; bill 12 mm. 

 ( 2 )ad. S. Javier (type) : wing 62 ; tail 51 ; bill 12 mm. 

 Two adults ("d", $")» Paramba: wing 62, 63: tail 50, 51 1 ; 

 bill 12 k, 13 mm. 



I at first thought that 7?. suljj/mrescens asemus Bangs * might be 

 the same as the present species. However, Mr. Bangs gives much 

 larger dimensions (wing 70, tail 59 mm.) and compares his new 

 form with Ji. sulphur escens, to which R. c. jiavotectus is but very 

 distantly related. 



R.c. Jiavotectus is another characteristic formof the forest district 

 of the Pacific Coast, ranging from sea-level up to about 3500 

 feet (Paramba). 



69. Cbaspedopeion ^quinoctialis Scl. 



CyGlorhynehus ceqidnocticdis Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 70 

 (1858. — Rio Napo, E. Ecuador). 



G. bi'evirostris (nee Cabanis) Cassin, Proc. Acad. N. Sci. Philad. 

 1860, p. 144 (Rio Truando). 



Rhynchocyclus mquinocticdls Hartert, Nov. Zool. v. 1898, p. 487 

 (Oachabi, N.W. Ecuador). 



No. 2422. c^ ad. No vita : 21.xii.08.— Wing 78 ; tail 65 ; bill 

 1 6 mm. 



No. 2485. c? ad. Noanama: 16.i.09.— Wing 80; tail 69; 

 bill 15 mm. 



" Iris davk brown, feet dark blue, maxilla black, mandible 

 horny-white." 



These skins are pi^aetically identical with an adult male from 

 N.W. Ecuador. All have the gi-eater upper wing-coverts and the 

 inner secondaries conspicuously edged with ochreous-buff, exactly 

 like C. olivaceus Temm.,t from Eastern Brazil ; they differ, 

 however, from the last named-species in their larger size, much 

 larger bill, deeper green throat and chest, etc. 



I am not sure whether they are really referable to C cequinoctialis, 

 not having examined specimens from Eastern Ecuador (the type 

 locality). According to Sclater's original description and later 

 remarks +, the true C. cequinoctialis appears to lack the fulvous 

 margins to the wing-coverts and inner secondaries. 



C. cequinoctialis, as understood here, ranges from Ecuador 

 north to the Isthmus of Panama. 



* Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash, xxiii. p. 73 (1910.— Pavas, Western Colombia, 4400 ft.). 

 f Flatip'liynclios olivaceus Teinmiuek, Kec. PI. Col., livr. ii. pi. 12. fig. 1 

 (1820.— "' Br^sil"). 



1 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 16fi. 



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