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Show 490 MESSRS. S C L A T E R A N D S A L V I N O N [June 3, to the author, were given by Sclater in a paper read before the Society in 1855, and in two supplementary communications on the same subject *. A n account of the Trochilidae of tbe vicinity of Bogota, and of the localities in which they are obtained, has also been given by M . L. de Geoffroy, Secretary to the French Legation at Bogota, in a paper published in Uricoechea's ' Contribuciones de Colombia a las Cien-cias y a las Artes'2. Since Sclater's papers were published, examples of many additional species have been received in "Bogota" collections; and a complete list of "Bogota" birdskins would embrace probably 700 species, instead of 510 given in Sclater's papers. Unfortunately, however, no record has ever been made of the exact localities whence these skins are obtained; and itseems certain that " Bogota" collections embrace examples of species pecoliar to the valleys on the east side of the Andean range (*. e. from the watershed of the Orinoco), as well as of species from the valleys on the west side and from the elevated districts surrounding Bogota itself. Besides "Bogota skins" and their literature, we have, so far as we know, putting aside occasional notices of individual species, only three authorities on the birds of Colombia to refer to. These are:- 1. M r . Cassin's Catalogue of the birds collected during the U.S. Survey of the Isthmus of Darien, published in 18613. Mr. Cassin enumerated 144 species in this memoir, some of the rarities of which, as hereafter noticed, recur in the present collection from the neighbouring State of Antioquia. 2. M r . Wyatt's articles on the birds obtained by him during his expedition to the Andes of Ocafia in 18704. M r Wyatt enumerated 210 species as met with by him in this district, some of tbe more remarkable of which occur also in the present collection. 1 On the Birds received in Collections from Santa Fe di Bogota. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., P. 7k S. 1855, p. 131. [This paper was afterwards separately printed and published, with an appendix containing a list of authorities added to it, under the following title:- On Birds received in Collections from Santa Fe di Bogota. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, F.Z.S. &c. From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, July 24, 1855. London. Printed for the Society. Sold at their House in Hanover Square, and by Messrs. LongmaD, Brown, Green and Longman, Paternoster Row.] On some additional species of Birds received in Collections from Bogota. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., P. Z. S. 1856, p. 25. Further Additions to the List of Birds received in Collections from Bogota. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., P. Z. S. 1857, p. 15. 2 Note sur les Trochilid^es de la Nouvelle Grenade. Par M. L. Geoffroy, Contr. de Colombia, Bogota, 1861. 3 " Catalogue of Birds collected during a Survey of a Boute for a Canal across the Isthmus of Darien, by order of the Government of the United States, made by Lieut. N. Michler, of the U.S. Topographical Engineers, with Notes and Descriptions of new Species." By John Cassin. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1860, pp. 131 and 188. TX/ wNo^?» T?.80?o^f t h e B i r d s o f t h e U n i t e d States o f Colombia. B V Claude W . Wyatt," Ibis, 1871, pp. 113, 319, and 373. |