96 Extracts from Correspondence, Announcements, S>;c. 



be no doubt it is also found in Ceram ; but birds seem so thinly 

 scattered over that large island, that it would take years to 

 acquire a proper knowledge of its ornithology. 



" At Bouru I shot a Glareola — the first time I have met with 

 the genus. I found Coleoptera and grubs in its stomach. Its 

 sternum shows it to be a true Wader, though a most curious and 

 abnormal form. 



" The Cassowary is absent from Bouru, and from every Moluc- 

 can island except Ceram ; yet I had been positively assured it was 

 common in Bouru. The error has arisen thus. The people of 

 the little island of Bonoa, at the west end of Ceram, often get 

 young Cassowaries from the main island to bring up. The 

 traders of Cayeli in Bouru buy these, and then take them to 

 Amboyna for sale, often in company with young Babirusas. This 

 happened when I was there. Of course the Amboyna merchants 

 purchasing these animals from Bouru residents, and having no 

 reason for hunting up their pedigree, take it for granted that 

 Cassowaries and Babirusas are found wild in Bouru." 



Mr. Salvin's latest letters arc dated from his old quarters at 

 Duenas in Guatemala, Nov. 4th, and state that, having been 

 there since the 14th of the previous month (in company with 

 Mr. F. Godman), he had obtained about 100 specimens of birds, 

 amongst which were some five or six new to the fauna of Gua- 

 temala : " a Swallow, which may be Hirundo lunifrons, Antro- 

 stomus carolinensis, Ardea exilis, a species of Cardellina (not C. 

 rubra), an Elainea, probably new, and a bird something like a 

 G-ranatellus." In Humming-birds these gentlemen had been 

 pretty successful, having obtained examples of Selasphorus heloisce 

 and Delattria henrici. They had also fallen in with a flock of 

 the rare little Parrot, Conurus lineolatus, and obtained three spe- 

 cimens. They intended to stay at Duenas about three weeks 

 longer, and then make an excursion to Coban ; leaving Guate- 

 mala for Costa Rica about the middle or end of January. 



