on a wonderful collection of birds from Ecuador. 379



A large grosbeak. Brilliant yellow head and underparts, black wings

and tail, boldly spotted with white.


Another grosbeak (or finch), grey with a stout ochre-coloured beak and

similarly coloured legs. ( ? species).


Two pairs of another ‘ finch,’ the male brown above and lighter below

and with grey heads, the females streaked with a lark or linnet like look.


A few SPERMOPHILJE (small “ seed-eaters ” ) almost certainly new

to aviculture

MIMIDAE.


Three Mocking-birds, probably Mimus longicctudata. (B.M. Gat. VI. 342.)


LONG-TAILED MOCKING BIRD.


TURDIDAE.


A small thrush, suggestive of the American Hermit Thrush, but with a

more rufous breast, perhaps Turdus swainsoni (OLIVE-BACKED THRUSH).

ICTERIDAE.


A pair of large Grackles (? species). Male black ; female brown.


Two Yellow-headed Marsh-birds (345), Agelceus icterocephalus.


Two species of Hangnest (? species), one with more yellow than black, the

other the reverse.


CORVIDJE.


Two TURQUOISE Jays, Cyanolyca turcosa.


PLATE. B.M. Cat. III. p. 135 ; p. 1. VII. Avic. Mag. VI. 226.

COTINGIDAE (somewhat Trogon-like).


Two species of the Cotingidae. One lovely male of Pipreola jucunda.

(Cat. XIV. 381), the YELLOW-VENTED COTINGA ; and a pair of

another species, probably P. riefferi. (XIV. 377). Ibis, 1901, 713.

PSITT ACID AE. (PARROTS).


Amazona lilacina. LESSON’S AMAZON. B.M. Cat. XX. 301.


PLATE of head. Has been represented by one skin in the B.M.


Pionus menstruus. (XX. 322). RED-VENTED PARROT.


The blue head of this specimen is so much brighter than what one

usually sees, that one cannot help thinking it may belong to a different species.

(? Can it be the P. cobaltinus of the foot-note, p. 325 of the Catalogue ?)


P. corallmus. CORAL-BILLED PARROT. (XX. 326).


PLATE. Rowley, Orn. Misc. III. pi. page 1.


P. chalcopterus. (XX. 333). BRONZE-WINGED PARROT.


P. seniloides (330). MASSENA’S PARROT.


Pair of Black-headed Caiques.


Two species of Parrotlet, one Icoelestis) from Ecuador, the other from Demerara,

Psittaculci guicmensis. (XX. 251). Coelestis has a green grey nape contrasting

with the general green of the body plumage, and the rich blue as in the

flower of the blue salvia.


Conurus rubrilarvatus. RED-MASKED CONURE. (XX. 182).


PLATE. Seth-Smith. P’keets, pi. page 36.



