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Show 1868.] MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON PERUVIAN BIRDS. 569 9. RHODOPIS VESPERA. The nest of this Humming-bird was also taken in March last, placed, like that of the last species, in a cactus. 10. ANTROSTOMUS .EQUICAUDATUS. Two skins of this species, concerning which see remarks, P. Z S 1867, pp. 342, 987. 11. CYPSELUS ANDICOLA (Lafr. et d'Orb.); d'Orb. Voy. Ois. p. 358, t. 42. fig. 2; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 606. Several skins of this highly interesting Swift, which we had only before seen in the British Museum. Mr. Whitely having now left the western slope of the Andean range, it may be convenient to give a nominal list of species he has obtained in Western Peru, which are, altogether, eighty-three in number: - I. PASSERES. 1. Turdus chiguanco. 2. Troglodytes tessellatus. 3. Anthus rufus. 4. Hirundo andicola. 5. Atticora cyanoleuca. 6. Conirostrum cinereum. 7• Diglossa brunneiventris. 8. Tanagra darwinii. 9. Pheucticus chrysogaster. 10. Spermophila telasco. 11. Volatinia jacarina. 12. Phrygilus atriceps. 13. fruticeti. 14. alaudinus. 15. plebeius. 16. speculifer. 17. Xenospingus concolor. 18. Zonotrichia pileata. 19. Chrysomitris capitalis. 20. Sycalis chloris. 21. Sturnella bellicosa. 22. Geositta cunicularia. 23. Cinclodes fuscus. 24. nigrifumosus. 25. Synallaxis cegithaloides. 26. orbignii. 27. Octhoeca leucophrys. 28. Muscisaxicola albifrons. 29. mentalis. 30. rubricapilla. 31. maculirostris. 32. Centrites niger. 33. Elainea albiceps. 34. Myiobius rufescens. 35. Pyrocephalus rubineus. 36. Aneeretes albocristatus. II. PlCARIjE. 37. Ceryle cabanisi. 38. Antrostomus eequicaudatus. 39. Chordeiles peruvianus. 40. Cypselus andicola. 41. Oreotrochilus estellee. 42. Myrtisfrancescce. 43. Thaumastura cores. 44. Rhodopis vesper. 45. 31etallura cupreicauda. 46- Petasophora iolata. 47. Patagona gigas. 48. Crotophaga sulcirostris. 49. Bolborhynchus oi-bignesius*. III. ACCIPITRES. 50. Cathartes aura. 51. 31ilvayo meyalopterus. * Tbe specimen determined (P. Z. S. 1867, p. 988) as probably Conurus aurifrons jr., is considered by Dr. Finsch, to whom it has since been shown, to belong to this species (cf. Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 129). |