60 Mr. W. Goodfellow — Ornithological 
253. Synallaxis pudica Scl. 
One male^ from San Nicolas^ West Ecuador, shot on au 
ants' nest. 
254. Synallaxis gularis Lafr. 
Three (^ s, 2 ? s, from the western side of Coraz6n_, at 
about 10,000 feet. 
255. Synallaxis fuliginosa Lafr. 
Three (^ s, 3 $ s. Santo Domingo and Gualea. These birds 
were numerous at the former place, in the clearing among 
the rotten tree-trunks. By knocking an ants' nest to pieces, 
we managed to attract many of them and other kindred 
species. The colour seems to vary with age. 
-'-256. Synallaxis erythrops Scl. 
Four c? s, 4 ? s, from Intag, Gualea, and San Nicolas, 
West Ecuador. 
257. Synallaxis flammulata Jard. 
One male and one female from Pichincha, 11,500 feet. 
The female appears to have a much shorter wing than the 
male, and the bright yellow spot on the base of the lower 
mandible of a much paler shade. 
258. Thripophaga guttuhgera Scl. 
Two (^s from Papallacta, Eastern Andes, 11,500 feet. 
259. PsEUDocoLAPTEs BoissoNEAUTi (Lafr.). 
Two c^ s, 4 ? s, 2 c? jr. Pichincha, Corazon, and Valle de 
Viciosa. Common on both sides of Ecuador at altitudes of 
between 12,000 and 14,500 feet. They frequent both stony 
ground and the " paramo "" grass region. At night they 
retire to holes in the banks or '^ quebradas,'' or under tufts 
of grass. They have a particularly mournful note, which 
they utter incessantly in the early morning, even before the 
break of day, and again in the evening until it is quite dark : 
while this cry, heard all over the high regions of Ecuador, 
became associated in our minds with frost and snow. They 
were very tame, and would allow us to approach within a 
few yards of them. I think that this must be the bird which 
Sir Martin Conway mentions in his book on the Bolivian 
