on a wonderful collection of birds from Ecuador. 375


“ rare and beautiful birds will shortly be forthcoming from more

“able pens, and these references are intended as a help in that

“ direction.


“ For most of the specific names we are indebted to Mr.

“ Goodfellow, who seems to know every South American bird in-

“ dividually and collectively; but, in a few cases, I have indicated

“ alternative names, where those he used referred (in the Hand List)

“ to non-Ecuadorian species.


“ The English names mostly come from Brabourne and

“ Chubb’s List.


“ I think most of the abbreviations used are sufficiently

“ obvious, but it may be as well to explain a few.”


RB. = Ridgway’s Birds of North and Middle America.


B. & C. = Brabourne and Chubb’s Birds of S. America, Yol. I., the

List, all that is published, and now, alas, all that is likely

to be.


B.M. Cat. = the Catalogue of the British Museum. This reference

follows (in brackets) the specific name, the volume indi¬

cated by Roman, the page by modern figures. When such

a reference consists of page figures only, it refers to the

Tanager volume (XI.), to which family a large proportion

of the birds belong.


H.L. = Hand-List of the British Museum. This classification is

followed as a whole, though the species are not arranged

in any correct order.


/.= ‘teste,” “on the authority of,”


thus /RB = on the authority of Ridg'way’s Birds, etc.


Mr. Goodfellow has previously visited Ecuador for ornitho¬

logical purposes, and it is to his description of this journey and the

birds met with, in “ An Ornithological Journey through Colombia

and Ecuador ” (Ibis) and in “A Naturalist’s Notes in Ecuador”

(. Avic. Mag) that the entries, Ibis, 1901 and Avic. Mag. VI. refer.


Those marked with * especially beautiful.


Eleven different species of Galospiza and Tcinagrella (late Calliste) arrived ;

four other species were obtained, but lost.


N.B. The Calliste family is known by the superb tanager amongst

aviculturists.



