De Benedicte 1964 207 4 March Cayaguar, Guayas Prov., Ecuador. Clin. He caught 2 others of this, and I got an [illegible] at Steer's house. We saw an eleuthrodicty lid frog fly over and heard other calling in the valley floor. Carpentier found a foam nest. The valley floor was all wet and much grown to sidges, grasses and out tails, with occ. patches of acacia along the road. Saw lots of birds but was shooting and didn't get to see most of them. Got the grey grosquint (#23) and the seedeater (#22) and a parrotlet (? #24). Steer got anii, #11, and an ant shrike and a babbel. There were Black & Turkey Vultures, a large black hawk like I saw yester, a smaller brown "Buteo" with a rufous head, and black and white banded tail. Saw very few small birds. A big blue, crested, fan-tailed Cotinaja, was in the trail tree. A long tailed - green Panot with orange under wings flew over several times. A smaller yellow orioles. Great skelies, a ? cuckoo, a black headed, brown bodied, white bellied jinch, a small yellow bellied, brown-backed flycatcher, grey head, black mask with white above and below. Kingbird like a Tropical with an narrow black mask. Small streaked flycatcher brown & white (above) (below) with white sides to the tail. Small rail (cuvier), dark colored A bronze colored "Robin" with long legs. A red-backed woodpecker. There were 2 or 3 more species of gros- guists which we didn't get. A midgset belted Kingfisher with prominent white cheeks, a blue & buff belly band-