OBNITHOLOGY OF QUITO. 
We have lately received a small collection of birds from the vici- 
nity of Quito, through the attention of Professor William Jameson 
of the University there. That gentleman is already well known 
to botanists, from the large and valuable collections and notes which 
be has from time to time transmitted to Sir William J. Hooker ; 
and we are glad to have been able to enlist his services in procuring 
for us the ornithology of the same country, and to revive in him 
a taste for a department of natural history which he formerly 
delighted to study. Our first consignment contained only seven 
species, being made hurriedly on receipt of our letters ; but among 
them are some birds of interest. Another parcel is now on the 
"ay ; and we propose to notice and record the contents of each as 
they reach us ; and hope that we may also be supplied with such 
notes of their habits and zones of distribution, as will enable us 
to give a somewhat connected account of the ornithology of that 
elevated and remarkable region. 
The ornithology of Peru has already been explored by Tschudi 
and D’Orbigny ; and as the observations of the latter inform us, 
that the extent of. the distribution of the birds on the eastern 
side of South America is very diffused, reaching from latitude 15 
t0 Patagonia, a distance of 440 leagues, we may expect to find, 
and have already received, species identical with some of those 
described by the before mentioned travellers, yet we are not aware 
that the vicinity of Quito has been completely or even partially 
examined, or the mountain chain of the Andes between Quito and 
the 11°, where the researches of D’Orbigny cease, explored. None 
°f the species now received have been killed at an elevation below 
11,000 feet, some as much as 14,000 feet above the level ot the 
s ^a ; and the dull plumage and uninviting forms which they in 
general exhibit, do not tempt dealers, as in other parts ot South 
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