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Show 836 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN [Dec. 6, this district, to which we have added a few notes where such explanations are called for. The previous authorities on the birds of the Bepublic of Honduras are two only.:- 1. Mr. Moore's list of Leyland's collections in Honduras, Belize, and Guatemala, given in P. Z. S. 1859, p. 50. 2. Mr. G. C. Taylor's articles on the birds collected and observed during his journey across the isthmus from Fonseca Bay to Omoa in 1857-8, published in 'The Ibis' for 1860. Mr. Whitely's series of about 520 skins was obtained in the vicinity of Puerto Cabello, Julian, Medina, and San Pedro. The three latter places are situated in the low forest-lands on the Chame-licon river, San Pedro, the furthest inland being not more than 30 miles from Puerto Cabello, the Atlantic terminus of the proposed railway. These specimens are referable to 135 species, of which the list is subjoined, the nomenclature, as usual, being that of Sclater's ' Catalogue of American Birds.' Fam. TURDIDAE. Fam. TANAGRIDAE. *1. Turdus tristis. 2. grayi. 3. Galeoscoptes carolinensis. Fam. TROGLODYTIDAE. 4. Campylorhynchus capistratus. 5. Thryothorus maculiqjectus. 6. modestus. Fam. SYLVICOLIDAE. 7. Henicocichla auricapilla. 8. noveboracensis. 9. Helminthophaga peregrina. 10. Dendrceca coronata. 11. ceerulea. 12. pennsylvanica. 13. eestiva. 14. Geothlypis trichas. Fam. VIREONIDAE. 15. Icteria viridis. 16. Vireosylvia olivacea. 17. Hylophilus decurtatus. Fam. HIRUNDINIDAE. 18. Progne leucogastra. Fam. CCEREBIDAE. 19. Ccereba cyanea. 20. Chlorophanes guatemulensis. 21. Euphonia hirundinacea. 22. Calliste larvata. 23. Tanagra diaconus. 24. abbas. 25. Ramphoccelus sanguinolen-tus. 26. passerinii. 27. Pyranga eestiva. 28. Phcenicothraupis ruficoides. 29. Eucometis spodocephala. 30. Saltator atriceqjs. 31. grandis. 32. magnoides. 33. Pitylus polioyaster. Fam. FRINGILLIDAE. 34. Hedymeles ludovicianus. 35. Guiraca concreta. 36. Spermophila moreleti. 37. corvina. 38. Volatinia jacarina. 39. Cyanospiza ciris. 40. cyanea. 41. Euspiza americana. Fam. ICTERIDE. 42. Ocyalus wayleri. 43. Ostinops montezumee. 44. Cassiculus prevosti. 45. Icterus baltimorcnsis. |