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Show 626 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN [Dec. 10, T A B L E II. I. Quadrumana . II. Chiroptera .... III. Insectivora IV. Carnivora .... V. Pinnipedia VI. Rodentia VII. Proboscidea . VIII. Artiodactyla . IX. Perissodactyla X. Edentata...:... XI. Cetacea XII. Marsupialia XIII. Monotremata. No. of species in list. 75 1 1 74 3 52 2 85 9 7 1 28 3391 No. of breeding species. 12 24 11 44 2 1 11 105 Proportion of breeding species to total number 1 in 6*2 1 in 30 1 in 4-7 1 in 1-9 1 in 4-5 1 in 70 1 in 2*5 1 in 3-2 2. O n Venezuelan Birds collected by Mr. A. Goering. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., and O S B E R T SALVIN, F.L.S.-Part II. Two small collections of birds recently received from our Corresponding Member Mr. Anton Goering (to whose labours in Venezuela we have already once called the Society's attention *) contain specimens of 99 species. The subjoined Table gives the names of them according to Sclater's 'American Catalogue,' together with the exact localities whenever these are stated on Mr. Goering's labels :- TURDID^. 1. Turdus fumigatus 2. Rhodinocichla rosea PARIDCE. 3. Polioptila buffoni TROGLODYTID.E. 4. Campylorhynchus nuchalis CO § o 03 a * 6 3 T3 "s -° o cd ... a* d o 03 a p CD ••d . a> .5 "**! S -S a *3 03 a 03 Xi CO 45 m * * * * See P. Z. S. 1868, p. 165. |