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Show 748 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [June 27, ** Shell with tubular spines. 7. CALYPTRA TUBIFERA. Shell thin, pellucid, smooth, with distant, short, tubular spines formed on the edge of the shell, and closed up below as the shell enlarges. Hab. Honduras. A single specimen, which was not named in the cabinet. 11. Catalogue of Birds collected by Mr. E. Bartlett on the River Huallaga, Eastern Peru, with Notes and Descriptions of N e w Species. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., and O S B E R T SALVIN, M.A. &c. (Plate XXXIV.) Mr. E. T. Higgins having kindly allowed us to examine Mr. E. Bartlett's second collection of birds from Eastern Peru before its dispersal, we have the pleasure of submitting the following account of it to the Society. The present collection was formed during the excursion spoken of iu the letter of which an extract is given in the Society's ' Proceedings' for January 1867*, and was mainly amassed at three localities- Yurimaguas, Xeberos, and Chyavetas. Yurimaguas is an Indian town on the Huallaga, about sixty miles from its embouchure into the Amazon, mentioned in Herndon and Gibbons's ' Exploration of the Amazon ' (p. 171). Xeberos is ar Indian village, about fifty miles north-west of Yurimaguas, on a small river (the Aypena) which flows into the Amazon just above the Huallaga. Chyavetas, or Chayavetas, is situated about seventy miles west of Yurimaguas. All these three places are marked in the copy of the Spanish map (of 1790) attached to Herndon's volume. The whole collection consists of nearly 1000 skins, referable to 205 species. Of these but very few are new to science, almost the only noticeable exception being the new Chcetura described below. This may probably arise from the fact that Mr. Hauxwell collected largely at Chamicuros (a village situated upon the opposite bank of the Huallaga, hut in the same neighbourhood) in 1854, and that his collections appear to have been widely dispersed in Europe. In comparing the present collection with the former collection from the Ucayali, we find only 94 species common to the two, while 112 species are in the Huallaga collection which had not been previously obtained by Mr. Bartlett. The following is a list of the species of birds collected at the three * Sec antea, p. 2. |