100 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on new African Birds. 



26. Chrysotis levaillanti, G.R.Gray: Finscb, Papag. ii. 

 p. 580. 



This species, which has received a number of names {cf. 

 Finsch, I. c), is best known from Mexico, where most of the 

 travellers who have visited that country seem to have met with 

 it. Deppe sent specimens of it to the Berlin Museum as long 

 ago as 1824; and Salle and Boucard both obtained it at Rio 

 Grande and Playa Vicente {cf. Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 230, et 

 1859, p. 389). According to Fiusch, it has been sent from the 

 Tres Marias Islands ; and a specimen of it from Jalapa is stated 

 to be in the Heine collection. In Guatemala I have no certain 

 knowledge of its occurrence, though I have little doubt it may 

 be found at Peten and the adjoining districts of Yucatan. At 

 Belize it may frequently be seen as a cage-bird, being doubtless 

 found in the neighbouring forests. 



27. PsiTTACULA CYANOPYGA, Souancc : Finsch, Papag. ii. 

 p. 662, et Abh. Nat. Ver. zu Bremen, 1870, p. 352. 



This species has been recently obtained in the Tres Marias 

 Islands, off the coast of Western Mexico, by Col. Grayson, and 

 forwarded to the Bremen Museum [cf. Finsch, /. c). The avi- 

 fauna of this group of islands is most remarkable, and, viewed 

 with reference to the geographical distribution of species, offers 

 a most perplexing problem for solution. At present we probably 

 know only a fragment of their whole bird population, which well 

 merits the attention of some enterprising naturalist. 



VII. — Descriptions of Two new Species of African Birds. 

 By R. B. Sharpe, F.L.S., Libr.Z.S. 



In a collection recently sent to me from Fantee by His Excel- 

 lency Governor Ussher I have received many very interesting 

 birds, details of which I hope shortly to be able to lay before 

 the readers of ' The Ibis ; ' but I may be pardoned for at once 

 bringing before their notice one of the most interesting ornitho- 

 logical discoveries likely to be made for some time, being no less 

 than a new species of Scotopelia, which I propose to call, after 

 Mr. Ussher, the discoverer of this fine novelty : — 



