ORNITHOLOGY OF QUITO. 
Our long expected box from Professor Jameson has at last 
arrived, containing some very interesting things, which we shall 
endeavour to notice as early as we succeed in making them out. 
The elevated regions in the vicinity of Quito, up to the very 
limit of the snow line, seem to abound in a few species of peculiar 
Humming Birds. We have previously mentioned 
T. ensiferus, of which there are again specimens procured from 
the forests on’ the western side of Pichincha; it is stated as not 
uncommon, and to extract its food from the large bell-shaped 
blossoms of Datura sanguinea. In one of these birds the tongue 
is entire, an instrument. fully equalling the bill in length, deeply 
forked, and haying the extremity of each fork dilated and finely 
fimbriated, the fimbrie pointing backwards. We have also the 
female or young. 
_Oreotrochilus jamesonii 9, which we believe is yet undescribed. 
It is dull coloured and without the gular patch; above, entirely 
of a brownish-green, the upper tail-covers showing green reflec- 
tions ; beneath, brownish-grey, palest on the throat, and having 
the feathers there and on the sides of the neck darkest in the 
centre. ‘The tail is coloured nearly as bright as in the male; the 
base of the feathers, except the centre ones, white; the second 
and third from the outside tipped on their inner webs with white. 
The entire length is 4.5; bill to forehead, 8; wing, 2.73. In 
another specimen, apparently a young male, subsequently received 
by post, the throat and fore part of the neck is nearly pure 
white, each feather spotted at the tip with dull green. A figure 
of these birds is given in our “Illustrations” accompanying the 
present Part. 
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