Mr. C. W. Wyatt on the Birds of Columbia. 319 



playing round a sandbank near How on the 1st of May. I saw 

 some Terns higher up the river a few days previously, which were 

 probably of this species. 



236. Rhynchops orientalis, Riipp. Scissors-billed Tern. 



I first saw some of these curious birds flitting over the sandbanks 

 near Edfoo, on the 1st of April ; on the 4th a small flock passed 

 our boat near Phile ; and I met, I beheve, the same flock ten 

 days later among the rapids of the first Cataract. Afterwards I 

 saw them frequently in considerable numbers, and killed several 

 near Erment, where, I believe, they were beginning to breed on 

 the sandbanks. They were not shy, and I had plenty of oppor- 

 tunity of watching their Tern-like evolutions as they played 

 together. 



Mr. S. S. Allen (Ibis, 1864, p. 243) mentions having seen 

 this bird once near Thebes, and speaks of its having been killed 

 at Damietta *. 



XXVI. — Notes on some of the Birds of the United States of 

 Columbia. By Claude W. Wyatt. 



[Continued from p. 181.] 



Three localities — Santa Marta, Cienaga, and Catamucho — 

 which are mentioned in the following list will not be found in 

 the map accompanying the first part of this paper. To Santa 

 Marta and Cienaga I have already alluded, and their position 

 will be given in any fair map of South America. Catamucho 

 is a little village situated on the banks of the Magdalena, 

 about a hundred miles from Baranquilla, where we landed for 

 half an hour during our journey up the river to Ocana. At 

 each of these places we fell in with birds which we did not 

 meet with elsewhere f. 



* Since the above article was in type, I have again visited E<rypt and 

 obtained several species not inserted in the foregoing list. My notes con- 

 cerning these, and also on some species ab-eady mentioned, I hope to pub- 

 lish shortly in a supplement. — G. E. S. 



t [The names of the species mentioned below have been determined by 

 Mr. Sclater and myself, the nomenclature (unless the contrary is stated) 

 being that adopted by Sclater in his Catalogue of American Birds.— Ed.] 



