226 Mr. W. Goodfellow — Ornithological 
Fam. Phalacrocoracid^. 
"^521. PhALACROCORAX BRASILIANUS (Gm.) . 
This Cormorant was common on the Upper Napo, but we 
did not see it after we passed the Coca. Iris bright 
emerald-green ; bare skin about the gape red ; bill yellowish 
green^ black down the centre and yellow at the tip. One 
skin^ that of a young raale^ has the throat, neck, and breast 
fawn-coloured mixed with brown and black. Wings and back 
dark slaty grey, each feather margined with black ; tail 
slightly tipped with white. 
Fam. A R D E I D ^. 
522. BuTORiDEs CYANURUS (Vicill.). 
A male from the stream running through the clearing at 
Santo Domingo. Bill shaded yellow and green ; iris yellow. 
Fam. Plataleid^.. 
523. Theristicus branickii (Berl. & Stolzm.). 
Theristicus branickii Salvad. Ibis, 1900, p. 515, pi. ix. 
A flat plain in the elevated Valle de Viciosa, between 
Antisana and Kilendana, was the only locality where we met 
with these rare Ibises. They were generally in pairs, or at 
most three or four together, and were exceedingly shy, while, 
on account of the open nature of the ground they frequented, 
they were difficult to shoot. When we were fortunate enough 
to kill one, we could generally get another, as the birds flew 
screaming around their fallen companion. They were more 
easily approached in the early morning, after snow had fallen 
during the night, as they then sat shivering about until the 
sun had melted the snow, and were not in such a hurry to take 
flight. A shepherd, who was the only inhabitant of this region, 
told us that they were not resident there all the year. He 
said that sometimes for two or three months at a time there 
were none of them in the valley ; but whether this was at 
' irregular or fixed periods he was unable to say. Durino- the 
week that we stayed there in December we saw some of these 
birds every day, and often heard their cry during the moon- 
light nights. It sounded as if they were flying over the 
