DeBeneeldtis 1964 3 March Playas, Guayas Prov., Ecuador (the following are down to family, more or less) (11) ?Troupial (Icteridae), large black bird with orange rump and upper wing coverts, blue eye, no frontal shield. Fairly common along the road from the Transition area to the city of Guayaquil. Solitary pairs only. (12) large yellow oriole; black wings and tail, with white bill corners and upper wing coverts. (?black level). seen only from the rear. may be the same as: (13) small yellow oriole; black wings + tail, 2 white wing bars; ?white outer tail feathers (from below), black from tail to ear. seen at last stop only. back colored ? (14) Icterid. - Robin shape. male black with dirty white terminal tail band and red chin, throat and breast. female gray, streaked with darker, and paler red breast. Song like redwing blackbird. Petersen calls it "military starling" Leistes militaris (15) Grosbeak - pattern like a white-breasted nut-hatch; much white on outer tail feathers. seen at all stops but very scarce everywhere, only 1 per place. P. (16) Ground dove - primary dark, white inside this; brown otherwise like Calif. dove, streaked on wing? bill yellow base, feet pink. Tail black. Seen only on the coast. May be from without the wing band hue