I I!) 



crisso pollute rufescentibus : rottro nigro, mandibula inferiore 

 ml basin brunnescente, peeHbui brunneis. 



Long, tota 8*0, aloe 4*1, caudoe 3*3, tarsi I - 

 I lab. In Bolivia (Brit/yes). 

 Mas. Derbiano et Brit. 



This fine species of Ciaclodes is quite typical in form, though it 

 departs somewhat in colouring from the uniform appearance of Gin- 

 clodes patagonicus ami in allies. In this reaped it approaches Cu^ 



elodes pall nil us (Tsch.), and I was at first almost inclined to believe 

 that it might he referable to that species. It is in tact just recon- 

 cileable with the characters, as given in Tschudi's 'Conspectus Avium' 

 ("Wiegm. Arch. 1844, p. 281). But turning to the Fauna Peruana, 

 we find a plate representing a hird with the apical portion of all the 

 tail-feathers white. On the other hand, in the letterpress of the 

 same work, the tail-feathers are described " an der Baaalhalfte rein 

 \oeis8, i/a Ubrigen Verlaufen schwarz," and in the following sentence 

 " Sckvoanz sclnoarz." I cannot undertake to reconcile these three 

 conflicting accounts of the colouring of the tail-feathers ; hut if any 

 one of the three he correct*, the present bird must be quite different. 

 It may further he noticed that the underside of Tschudi's species i*. 

 represented both by figure and description as "pure white" The 

 two white bands in the wing of Cinclodes bifasciatus are formed, one 

 by the bend of the wing and distinct exterior edging of the feathers 

 of the spurious wing being white, and the second by a broad white 

 space, which occupies the basal portion of .all the secondaries except 

 the outermost, and passes obliquely across the inner primaries, ter- 

 minating at the fourth from the outside, and leaving the three outer 

 primaries wholly unmarked. The fourth primary is marked only on 

 the inner web. There is a specimen of this bird in the British 

 Museum, from the same origin as the hird described. 



2. List of Birds collected by Mr. Lons Frabbr, H 

 CuENCA, GlJALAQUIZA AND Zamora, in Tin: Km iti.H 01 

 Ecuador. By Philip Lutley Sclatkk. M.A. 



(Avcs, PI. CXLV.) 



1 have the pleasure of exhibiting some new birds belonging to the 

 first collections aent home by Mr. Fraser (our corresponding mem- 

 ber) from the journey he is now making in the Andes of Ecuador, 

 and pointing out the characters by which they may be distinguished. 

 I subjoin also a complete list of the species obtained, as well for the 

 preservation of the localities, which arc always accurately marked. 



a> 00 account Of the value of the nolo on the habits food, v\c. taken 



from Mr. Fraser's MS. which I thus have the opportunity of making 



public. 



* For other instances of the untrustworthine - of the plat li'i i"><>k. 



tee P. /.. 8. 1854, p. 'its, & iv'.*. p. 75. I'r. Gonthei Enformi me thai the /•'</- 

 trarliin there figured are n\*<< quite unrecognizable. 



No. CCCLXXV. Pro< bi dings oi thi Zoological 8o< m n 



