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Show 1870.] MR. O. SALVIN ON THE BIRDS OF VERAGUA. 175 opens perpendicularly, with prominent lips or jaws, that on the left side being of a fine blue colour, and the other red. At a short distance behind this, on each side, is a folded and slightly thickened membrane (b) ; and still further back, above, there is a more slender process on each side (the tentacles) (c) ; while rather below the first named, on the right side only, is a smaller red process, encompassed at its root with a bluish circle (reproductive orifice 1) (d). The eye is small, scarcely to be discerned, and is situated near the root of the more posterior process of the two already named. The body, on which these processes are placed is of a decided yellow colour, and ends in an oval mantle of rather small dimensions, with a border that constitutes the gills ; while the more extended lateral portion, which is of a lively yellow colour, is separated from the dorsal by a line or groove, which seems to form the line of distinction between it and the sexual organs. A border or separated fold of this lateral division, of a bright red colour, proceeds forward from the hindmost border of the mantle, where there appears to be an opening into the body, to end on the side, at about half its length. The foot (e) is of dark brown colour, a little the widest in front, and slightly projecting behind, where the lateral portion of the body also slopes down, a small portion of the latter having above it a curved line of separation. The whole of the body, with the exception of the mantle and foot, is marked with tints of red on the brilliant yellow surface. Of the other example above referred to, the colours had all been resolved into a dull brown, and the foot was much puckered. I could not discover in the lips or jaws any roughness or firmness as of teeth ; and the single lateral process at the side of the neck was absent. The internal plate (fig. 2) is in figure half an oval, 2 inches wide, thin, subcartilaginous, and marked with faint lines diverging from the straight border. Almost, but not exactly, at the middle of its upper portion was a slight prominence or projection, but so injured as not to be accurately defined. Its surface was very slightly tinged with brown. 6. On some Collections of Birds from Veragua. B y O S B E R T S A L V I N , M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., & c - P a r t II. (Plate XVII.) Since my former communication * to the Zoological Society upon this subject, the same collector, Enrique Arce', w ho furnished the materials for m y paper, has been working industriously at the Ornithology of Veragua, and has accumulated so much material in m y hands that I now deem it expedient to draw up a report on the additions made to m y former list. Besides mentioning the species added to the catalogue of the birds of Veragua, I have again inserted * P.Z.S. 18G7, pp. 129-161. |
