ORNITHOLOGY OF QUITO. 
the lower part of the back and rump show the bright changing 
colours, as well as the upper tail-coyers which Bourcier mentions 
as alone possessing them. Of this form Mr. Gould makes his 
genus Agleactis. Professor Jameson observes —“ Inhabits the 
middle regions of Pichincha, extracting its food from the flowers 
of Siphocampy lus giganteus and Loranthus. The species seems 
to be peculiar to the province of Patto and to the equator.” 
» Since writing the above, we have received four specimens by 
post from the same regions, one a $, of a species common about 
the suburbs of Quito. The 7. nuna, Less. 
We may notice this again when other specimens haye been 
received. 
