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mountain is much lighter on the vent than those from Papal- 
lacta. At the latter locality we found this bird frequenting 
the open meadows in the early morning. 
Family PteroptochiDjE. 
313. SCYTALOPUS MAGELLANICUS (Lath.), 
Four males and 1 female from Pichincha and Papallacta. 
The single male from the latter locality has the breast of a 
comparatively light slate-colour. The female is more rusty- 
looldng on the wings than the males. We found these birds 
difficult to shoot, for they hop along the ground so quickly 
that they are lost to sight among the bushes at once. 
314. ScvTALOPUs SENILIS Lafr. 
One example from Pichincha, Western Andes, 13,000 feet, 
and one from Papallacta, Eastern Andes, 11,500 feet. Both 
are marked ''^males,^^ but the Pichincha bird is decidedly the 
lightest on the throat and abdomen and is white above the 
nostrils. Both are brownish about the thighs and vent. 
315. AcROPTEiiNis ORTHONYX (Lafr.). 
We shot two males and two females of this bird, one pair 
near the little village of Lloa and the other pair by the 
waterfall a thousand feet above Quito, both localities being 
on the eastern side of Pichincha. This is where Festa 
obtained the examples which Count Salvadori has described 
as A. infuscatus^. I have compared our skins with those in 
the British Museum, and they appear to belong to typical 
A. orthonyx. The females are more rusty-looking on the 
breast and under parts. 
[To be continued.] 
V. — Forty -four Days' Nesting in Andalucia. 
By Heatley Noble, F.ZS. 
The ornithology of the south of Spain has been so well worked 
out by the late Lord Lilford, Colonel Irby, Mr. Howard 
Saunders, Mr. Dresser, and others that it seems almost an 
* See ' Ibis/ 1900, p. 394. 
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