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Show 278 MESSRS. S C L A T E R A N D S A L V I N O N [Mar. 14, 4. List of Birds collected on the Blewfields River, Mosquito Coast, by M r . Henry Wickham. By P. L. S C L A T E R, F.R.S., and O S B E R T S A L V I N , M.A., F.Z.S. Mr. Henry Wickham, who has lately left England to collect objects of natural history in the little explored territory of Mosquitia, has kindly requested his correspondents in this country to submit his bird-skins to our determination. W e have had great pleasure in undertaking this task, the more so as we have as yet seen no collections from this part of Central America. The nearest point of the ornithology of which we have as yet any published account is the vicinity of Greytown, Nicaragua, where Mr. H . E. Holland obtained the small series described by Mr. Lawrence in the 'Annals of the Lyceum of N e w York' in 1865*. Mr. Wickham's present collection embraces thirty-nine species. W e have thought it advisable to give a complete list of these (although the greater part are well-known Central American species, and none are new to science) in order to furnish further data for limiting the geographical range of the species. The district is one of considerable interest, as it is somewhere here that the remarkable change must take place for the fauna of Guatemala to pass into that of Costa Rica. W e must await further additions before we draw any conclusions from Mr. Wickham's series; but we may point out as of interest the occurrence in it of several southern forms, such as Cotyle uropygialis, Dendrornis lacrymosa, Copurus leuconotus, Myiozetetes granadensis, Myiarchus nigricapillus, Prionorhynchus platyrhynchus, and Porzana albigularis, not hitherto recorded so far north. Mr. Wickham's present collection contains the following species, all collected during his voyage up the Blewfields River;- Fam. TURDID.E. 1. GALEOSCOPTES CAROLINENSIS (Linn.). Fam. HIRUNDINIDEE. 2. COTYLE UROPYGIALIS, Lawrence. Agreeing with specimens from Panama and Ecuador. Fam. TANAGRIDAE. 3. PYRANGA ESTIVA (Gm.). 4. RAMPHOCOELUS PASSERINII, Bp. 5. RAMPHOCOELUS SANGUINOLENTUS (Less.). Fam. FRINGILLID^E. 6. SPERMOPHILA CORVINA, Scl. * Ann. Lye. N. H. N. Y. viii. p. 179. |