232 Ornithological Jovrncy through CohmLia and Ecuador. 
548. Tringa maculata (Vieill.). 
A male and female from the marshes near Quito. 
549. Gambetta melanoleuca (Gm.). 
A male from the Santa Carolina marshes^ Quito. 
550. Gambetta flavipes (Gm.). 
A female from the same locality. 
551. Helodromas solitarius (Wilson). 
A. female from the marshes^ Quito. 
552. Tringoides macularius (Linn). 
Four males and two females, from Santo Domingo and San 
Nicolas. Common at both localities in October, as well as 
on the banks of all the rivers and streams flowing down to 
the Pacific. We also saw them running along the paths of 
the small forest-clearings far from the vicinity of rivers. 
Fam. Larid^. 
553. Larus serranus (Tsch.). 
Two males from the small lakes near Cotopaxi, altitude 
13,700 feet. Very numerous there, I believe, all the year 
round. In December we saw as many as seventy or eighty on 
a small pond in company with Querquedida cyanoptera and 
Coots. One Gull was always circling in the air to keep 
watch, and, when anyone approached, it gave the alarm to the 
others, which rose with loud screamings. Sometimes, when 
the weather is severe on the heights, they descend into the 
Chillo Valley in large numbers. Local name ^' Palomitas.''^ 
Fam. T I N A M I D iE. 
554. Nothoprocta curvirostris. 
A male and two young from among the paramo grass on 
Pichincha, at altitudes between 11,0C0 and 13,000 feet. 
They are much scattered on this mountain, and we only came 
across them singly or in pairs, for they are persecuted all 
the year round by sportsmen and Indians from Quito. Some 
of the latter get their liAing by supplying them to the 
restaurants in the town. They are still fairly plentiful on 
