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Show 1879.] BIRDS FROM ANTIOQUIA. 487 Altogether, in the eight collections transmitted by Mr. Salmon about 3500 specimens of birds have passed through our hands. Some of the new species contained in them have been already laid before the Society1. But in justice to Mr. Salmon's memory and in the interests of science, we have thought it right that some further record of so fine and extensive a series (embracing specimens of 468 species) from such a little-known locality should be made. W e have therefore compiled the subjoined list of the birds represented in M r . Salmon's collections, with an indication of the exact localities in which each species was obtained, and an account of the nest and eggs where sent. Except in the case of some of the very commonest, examples of Mr. Salmon's species have been kept either for the collection of Sclater (Mus. P.L. S.), or for that of Salvin and Godman (Mus. S.-G.), as indicated in the subjoined list. The nests and eggs have been deposited in the British Museum. W e have incorporated into our list Mr. Salmon's valuable M.S. notes on the nests and eggs, and have appended his initials (T.K. S.) to them. The following is a list of the species new to science discovered by Mr. Salmon :- I. Catharuspheeopleurus, Scl. et Salv. P.Z.S. 1875, p. 541. 2. Cyphorinus dichrous, Scl. et Salv. infra, p. 492. 3. Setophaga chrysops, Salv. Ibis, 1878, p. 314. 4. Chlorochrysa nitidissima, Scl. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 728. 5. Buarremon elceoprorus, Scl. et Salv. infra, p. 504. 6. Automolus kolostictus, Scl. et Salv. P.Z. S. 1875, p. 542. 7. ignobilis, Scl. et Salv. infra, p. 522. 8. Grallaria ruficeps, Scl. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 729. 9. flavo-tincta, Scl. Ibis, 1877, p. 445. 10. rufo-cinerea, Scl. et Salv. infra p. 526. 11. Chloronerpes dignus, Scl. et Salv P. Z. S. 1877, p. 20. 12. Brachygalba salmoni, Scl. et Salv. infra, p. 535. 13. Buteo hypospodius, Gurney, Ibis, 1876, p. 73, pi. iii. 14. Tigrisoma salmoni, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 38. II. ACCOUNT OF MR. SALMON'S LOCALITIES. The exact localities where Mr. Salmon obtained his birds are mostly marked in the map which we now exhibit (see p. 488), copied from de Greiff's map of the province of Antioquia 2. As will be seen, they lie mostly on affluents of the Magdalena and Cauca, though one is on the sources of the Sucio, which flows into tbe Atrato. The following gives such indications of them as we have been enabled to collect, partly from verbal communications with Mr. Salmon, partly from the map and other documents. 1 See P. Z. S. 1873, p. 128, and 1875, p. 541. 2 Mapa de la provincia de Antioquia en la repubhca de Nueva Granada, trazada de acuerdo con los mas modernos reconocimientos por C. S. de Greiff. Gravada por Alexis Orgiazzi, gravador del deposito de la guerra. Paris, 1857. |