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New subspecies confirmed for Ecuador. a) Sunbittern Eurypyga helias meridionalis (R. Ahlman); b) and c) Petrochelidon pyrrhonota melanogaster (R. Ahlman).  

New subspecies confirmed for Ecuador. a) Sunbittern Eurypyga helias meridionalis (R. Ahlman); b) and c) Petrochelidon pyrrhonota melanogaster (R. Ahlman).  

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We summarise records of bird species submitted to the Committee of Ecuadorian Records in Ornithology (CERO) by the Ecuado-rian and international ornithological community. CERO compiles the official country checklist and updates it annually. We present nine new country records (Anas acuta, Aythya collaris, Egretta rufescens, Coccycua pumila, Sublega...

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... revision of the tape-record- ing by D. F. Lane, R. Ahlman and N. Krabbe suggests that it represents subspecies Eurypyga helias meridion- alis of the eastern Andean foothills [11]. This subspecies, as seen in the submitted photographs (Figure 5a), has greyish back and wings whereas the nominate subspecies of the Amazonian lowlands is distinctly browner [11]. This is the first documented record of E. h. ...
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... single bird was observed among a flock of swallows (mostly Blue-and-white Swallow Pygochelidon cyanoleu- ca) in open pastureland along the road north of Lum- baquí (Figure 5b, 5c). Dark chestnut forehead indi- cates it represents subspecies Petrochelidon pyrrhonota melanogaster, not previously reported from Ecuador [2]. ...

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