P. DeBenedictis 1964 208 3 March Guayaquil, Guayas Prov., Ecuador. are not included. Saw a few birds not included in this listing, needless to say. a very exciting day. Copied descriptions in field in small note book, due due in the evening. Quite a day. 50+ species. 4 March. Sat up early; not much around the boat as yesterday. After breakfast Ashlock, Schuster, Billet and Carpenter and I went to Heinz Hirshak's ranch (?) which was just outside of Guayaquil where the road splits to Playas and the coastal nts. We looked at his animals and then went out to the jungle-scrub edge on the hillside near the house. The hills were steep and mosquitoes were abundant. The vegetation was quite patchy, prob. cleared and grazed by donkeys and cattle. There were large areas of grass on the hill sides but dense vegetation in the canyons, mostly low tangles that were impossible to get through, with some trees in front. Tall, buttonwood trees stood well above the other vegetation; these trees were fairly open and easy to see into. There was much low acacia and its scrubby was of leguminous and spurge like plants which formed dense tangles. The leaves of this plant stick to the trousers like flypaper. Butterfly and dragonflies were very common and many species were present. Saw a couple of Swallowtails and many nymphalids and sulphurs. Lizards were surprisingly scarce. I saw 2 Anolis and caught a anoliform lizard which I gave to Carpenter until it