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which I take to be new : it is a Petasophora ; its general colour 

 is brownish, and it has a gular stripe running down the throat 

 of faint blue and green ; the ears are blue*. 1 have also obtained 

 some good specimens of Lophornis helencs, which pleased me 

 much ; the rest are common. I enclose a comparative list of 

 the Humming-birds of Duenas and Coban : when I have time, 

 I mean to make out a similar list of the birds of the two places 

 as complete as I can. 



" A specimen of a Penelope, which was brought to me, appears 

 to answer well with P. niger ; it is not at all rare in the moun- 

 tains. An Ortalida is also found there. A female Euphonia gouldi, 

 a fine specimen oi Botaurus lentiginosus, a female Gyparchus papa, 

 and several others which I do not know, form the best part of my 

 collection. One of the very commonest birds about the town is 

 Elainia vilissima. I also obtained three specimens of E. placens. 

 1 think, too, you will be rather pleased with the Mniotiltida and 

 Vireones; but I hardly know with what amount of satisfaction 

 you will receive the intelligence that I have certainly three, per- 

 haps foui', species of Caprimulgida. At Coban the coast-species 

 and those of the cold country are much mingled, and I think 

 that after a very careful scrutiny the number of species exclu- 

 sively belonging to one or the other will prove small in com- 

 parison. I wish you would look very carefully at a specimen 

 marked in my collection Trogon puella from the Pacific Coast 

 region. I cannot help feeling sure that it is not the same as 

 the bird found in the mountains of Coban, which, as I am as- 

 sured, is exclusively a bird of the cold region. The species of 

 Coban has a black ring round the eye ; Pharomacrus paradiseus 

 has the same ; so I am told by a man who has shot many. I 

 should also like to know what is the colouring of the chin and 

 lower parts of Pteroglossus torquatus, as I have a skin from the 

 Rio Polochic which I fancy is different. I have set two men to 

 work to collect for me in the coast-country, north of Coban, 

 and I have great expectations that they will work well for me. 

 I have made arrangements to return to Coban in January, when 

 1 hope to shoot some Quesals myself; the bad weather and the 

 quantity of work the small boys gave me to do prevented me 

 * It is Petasophora delphincB. — Ed. 



