Ornithological Literature o/1870. 463 



Salvin, Osbert. 



1. Additional Notes on Mr. Lawrence's List of Costa-Rica 

 Birds. Ibis, 1870, p. 107. 



A continuation of a paper published in the same Journal iu 

 the previous year (1869, p. 310). Several alterations are here 

 proposed in Mr. Lawrence's list (Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 149), 

 and a suggestion affecting several South- American Capitoxid^ 

 (to the effect that the males and females had been universally 

 considered to be distinct species) is made. According to the 

 author, Capito hartlaubi is the $ of C. bourcieri, C. melanotis 

 (partira) the $ of C richardsoni, C. melanotis (partim) the § of 

 C. aurantiicollis, and C. tschudii the ^ of C. glaucogularis. A list 

 of 19 species, not mentioned by Mr. Lawrence, but found in 

 Costa Rica, is added ; and the whole number of birds now known 

 to occur in this country is shown to amount to 520. 



2. On some Collections of Birds from Veragua. Part ii. P. Z. S. 

 1870, pp. 175-219, plate xvii. 



A continuation of a former paper on the same subject (P. Z. S. 

 1867, pp. 129-161) j 216 species are added to the avifauna of 

 Veragua, raising the total number of observed species in this 

 district to 432. In the introductory remarks reasons are given 

 for considering Veragua, with Costa Rica and Panama, a sec- 

 tion of the Central-American isthmus. The number of birds 

 in this district is roughly estimated at 720. Of these 175, or 

 about 25 per cent., are not found elsewhere. The new species 

 described are Thnjothorus semibadius, Tachijjjhonus nitidissimus, 

 Empidonax atriceps, Chiromachceris aurantiaca, Antrostomus sa- 

 turatus, Chcetura fumosa, Lophornis adorabilis, Selasphorus tor- 

 ridus, S. ardens, Chloronerpes simplex, and Melanerpes chrysau- 

 chen. A map (plate xvii.) shows most of the localities visited 

 by the collector Enrique Arce, and, including Costa Rica and 

 Panama, gives the whole of the south-eastern section of the 

 great Isthmus. 



See also Sclater and Salvin. 



Saratz, Jean. 



Les Oiseaux de la Haute Engadine. Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, 



ii. pp. 122-146. 

 M. Saratz 's pa})cr is prefaced by a short description of the 



