NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. 



Vol. n. FEBRUAitV, 1S95. Ko. 1. 



ON BIEDS COLLECTED IN PEEU BY ME. 0. T. BAEON. 



Bv OSBERT SALVIN, M.A., F.R.S., Etc. 



(Plates I. and II.) 



DURIXCi the past sninmer Mr. Bavou, who is now travelling in Pern, sent to 

 Mr. Godman and myself his first collection of birds made duriuj; the first 

 half of the year 1S94 in Northern Peru. Shortly afterwards Mr. Rothschild 

 received a series of birds from the same collection, and the present paper is intended 

 to give some account of the two sets of skins. 



Mr. Baron has not yet sent us any account of the jjlaccs he visited, but as 

 every specimen is carefully labelled with the place, altitude, and date where aud 

 when it was secured, we can trace the route he followed. 



He lauded at the port of Trujillo. In December 189:3 he was at Tcml)ladera 

 (altitude 1,200 feet), aud at .San Pablo (7,500 feet). 



January 1894 he spent at Cajabamba and its vicinity (8,()t»0 to 9,000 feet) 

 Huamachuco (10,400 feet), and Cajamarca (9,300 to 11,000 feet). During February 

 he remained at Huamachuco and its vicinity (.5,.500 to 10,400 feet). In March he 

 was at Huamachuco ; in April at Huamachuco, and again at Cajabamba ; iu May 

 at Cajamarca, and again at Tembladera on his way to the coast. 



It will thus be seen that most of the time was spent in the western range of 

 the Andes at various elevations ranging from about 5,500 feet to 11,000 feet above 

 the sea. The principal places mentioned are on the eastern slope of the western 

 range, the river drainage running into the Maranon. 



The collection itself is of great interest, containing as it does many novelties. 

 This is the more surprising as the district liunted over immediately adjoins that so 

 successfully investigated by Stolzmann. The result shdws that the wonderful 

 ornithological fauna of Peru is by no means e.\hansted, and that every range of 

 hills and every valley of that varied country is likely to reward the enterprising 

 naturalist with strange and unexpected novelties. 



In preparing this pajier I have been most kindly aided by Count Berlepsch. 

 who has of late years industriously studied the ornitlKilogy of Peru. My questions 

 he has answered with his usual care, and he has examined a number of specimens 

 njion which I asked bis judgment. 



The species described as uew are as follows : — 



1. Basileuterus nigrivertex. 



2. Buarrenion baroni, 



3. ,, rufigenis. 



4. Poospiza alticola. 



5. „ nibecula. 



6. Haemophila laeta. 



7. „ pcrsonata. 

 H. Pachyrhaniphus .similis. 



9. Siptornis baroni. 



10. ,, hypochondi'iaciis. 



11. Phacclodomiis dorsalis. 



12. ,Si;yt;iIopus uiiicoloi'. 



13. Oreotrochilus stolzmaniii. 

 !4. Psittacula x:inthoiw. 



15. Coliimiia oeiiops. 



10. Leptiiptila decolor. 



