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Mr. P. L. Sclater on Milvago carunculatus. 
vient de la Nouvelle-Granade. Ceux de M. d'Orbigny venaient 
de la Bolivie. Ailes venant presque au niveau de la queue. 
1845. 0. Des Murs. 
To this I am enabled to add a few particulars under the fol¬ 
lowing circumstances :—Shortly after the publication of the 
article in last year's ( Ibis/ I received a collection of birds, formed 
by Mr. Fraser on Pichincha and in other elevated localities in 
the neighbourhood of Quito, of which I have given a list in the 
Proceedings of the Zoological Society for the past year (P. Z. S. 
1860, p. 73). The Milvago, of which one example was in the 
collection, I then observed, was evidently of the species named 
by M. Des Murs carunculatus, and quite distinct from the 
Bolivian M. megalopterus (montanus, D'Orb.), to which I had 
previously referred similar examples collected by Mr. Fraser in 
Ecuador*, though not without remarking on their apparent dif¬ 
ference from the usual plumage of the latter species. The ex¬ 
amples of this Milvago collected by Mr. Fraser have been placed 
by Mr. J. H. Gurney in the Norwich Museum. They are all three 
in adult plumage, as is also the fine example represented in the 
accompanying illustration (Plate I.), for which I have to thank 
Mr. Gurney. The present specimen, which is destined to adorn 
the Museum of Bremen, was received by Mr. Gould with other 
birds from the Bio Napo, on the eastern slope of the Andes of 
Ecuador. 
The synonymy of Milvago carunculatus will now stand as 
follows:— 
Phalcobcenus carunculatus, Des Murs, Bev. et Mag. de Zook 1853, 
p. 154. 
Milvago megalopterus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 555 (err.). 
Milvago carunculatus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 81. 
Its habitat must be extended to the higher Andean ranges of 
the republic of Ecuador (alt. 14,000 feet), where Mr. Fraser's 
examples were procured. I have already given Mr. Fraser's 
remarks on the habits, colouring of the soft parts, &c., in full in 
the ‘Proceedings' (l.c.); but I have to thank him for the follow¬ 
ing additional note:— 
* See P. Z. S. 1858, p.555. 
