94 Mr. 0. Salviii on the Psittacidte of Central America. 



record of having personally met with it anywhere in Vera Paz, 

 or on the Atlantic side of the Cordillera, and now think that 

 the locality ' Coban' cited in Mr. Sclater's and my paper (Ibis, 

 1860, p. 44), which was taken from a skin, may be erroneous. 

 Mr. Taylor found Brotogerys tovi in Honduras ; and Arce ob- 

 tained specimens on the Gulf of Nicoya, in Costa Rica. The 

 last-named collector has also forwarded us numerous specimens 

 from Chiriqui and Calobre in Veragua. M'Leannan forwarded 

 us examples from Panama. Lastly, specimens were obtained 

 on the Atrato by Lieut. jMichler's expedition (Proc. Ac. Phil. 

 1860, p. 137). Southward of this point, B. tovi passes into 

 Columbia, and is not unfrequently seen in the well-known col- 

 lections from Bogota*. 



14. BoLBORHYNCHUs LixEOLATUs (Cass.) : Fiusch, Papag. ii. 

 p. 130. 



This is by no means a common species, though of wide range. 

 In Southern Mexico Salle obtained specimens near Cordova ; 

 and Mr. White's collection, formed in the vicinity of Mexico, 

 contained an example (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 177). Dr. Cabot found it 

 on the island of Cozumel, off the coast of Yucatan ; and in Guate- 

 mala Mr. Godman and I discovered a small flock in the Vol- 

 can de Fuego, at an elevation of about 8000 feet above the 

 sea-level. We saw them in a tree overhanging the track to 

 Acatenango, above the Indian huts of Calderas, and succeeded 

 in securing three or four specimens before the rest took fright 

 and flew away. 



In a collection recently forwarded to us from Costa Rica by 



* Brotogerys suBC^RrLEA (Lawr.) : Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 97, t. 2. 



Dr. Finsch, I. c, considers this bii-d to belong to a good species. For 

 ray own part, without having seen the original specimen, I cannot but 

 think that the blue colouring of the plumage is accidental, and due to a 

 deficiency in the yellow element of the normally green colour of the fea- 

 thers. M'Leannan, who shot the specimen from which Mr. Lawrence 

 took his description (the only one, I believe, that has ever been obtained), 

 considered it only a variety of B. tovi\ with individuals of which species 

 he found it associating. 



I notice that in some specimens in our series of B. tovi, the feathers of 

 the back are bluer than in others. B. suhca-nilen mav only show an 

 extreme development of this tendency. 



