Ornithologij of Guatemala. 277 



Wheu frightened^ the whole bevj^ runs up the side of the 

 ravine^ and only when approached quite suddenly do they take 

 wing. The consequence is (alas that it should be said !), that 

 the sportsman is obliged to shoot them on the ground ; and the 

 only mode he has of quieting his conscience, is by a stretch of 

 his imagination to suppose them "fur/' and not " feather/' and 

 to take a running shot. 



32. EupsYCHORTYX LEUCOPOGON (Less.) : Gould, Mon. Odont. 

 pi. 13. 



San Geronimo. A female, probably of this species, shot in the 

 cane-field. 



33. Macuorhamphus griseus (Gm.) : Baird's Rep. p. 712. 

 San Geronimo. A single specimen shot at San Geronimo. 



34'. Phalaropus hyperboreus (Linn.). 



Duenas, August 1859. I have never observed but four birds 

 of this family in Guatemala. They had apparently but just 

 arrived, and were swimming slowly about on the lake, picking at 

 the weeds, &c. They showed the usual absence of timidity at- 

 tributed to these birds. No others followed these four, which 

 may probably have formed a brood of the season. Since obtain- 

 ing these, I discovered in the collection of Don Vicente Con- 

 stancia a specimen of the same species ; he also had another 

 species, which will probably prove to be P. wilsonii. Both these 

 had been procured from near the city of Guatemala. 



35. Rallus virgin ianus, Linn. : Baird's Rep. p. 748. 

 Antigua Guatemala, September 1859. A single specimen 



only, a female, was brought me. It was killed in one of the 

 cochineal plantations. 



36. CoRETHRURA RUBRA, Sclatcr and Salvin, P. Z. S. 1860 

 (May 16th). 



Coban, Vera Paz, November 1859. Also in the collection of 

 Don Vicente Constancia, and previously transmitted by Mr. 

 Skinner. 



37. FuLiGULA coLLARis (Don.) : Baird, Rep. p. 792. 

 Coban, Vera Paz, November. Ducks frequent the river of 



Coban in some numbers. 



