396 Messi's. Salvin and Sclater on the 



XLIX. — Contributions to the Ornithology of Guatemala. By 

 OsBERT Salvin and Philip Lutley Sclater. (Part III.) 



(Plate XIII.) 



[Concluded from page 278.] 



On leaving Coban, in November 1859, I engaged Cipriano 

 Prado, a resident of that town, to proceed to the coast-region of 

 the north to collect birds for me. This man was absent nearly 

 four weeks, and returned with a series of about 400 skins. At 

 the same time his brother, Juan Prado, also got together some 

 200 more from the Indians of Coban and its neighbourhood. 

 During the months of January and February 1860 I was myself 

 collecting at Duenas, and made a short excursion to Escuintla. 

 Thence I returned in March, via Duenas, to Vera Paz, and ob- 

 tained a few birds by the way on the Rio Motagua. 



At San Geronimo my friend Mr. Owen had during these 

 months made a small collection, which contained several species 

 I had not previously noticed in Guatemala. All these, with a 

 few that I collected in the mountains of Vera Paz in the month 

 of March last, form the principal part of my last collections, the 

 rest being made up by two small lots, one from Tactic, and the 

 other from Cajabon. 



The whole number of skins thus assembled amounts to nearly 

 1000, belonging to about 220 species, of which 46 are new to 

 the fauna of Guatemala. — 0. S. 



To these 46 species 6 more may be added, as now satisfactorily 

 ascertained to be found within our limits, making in all 52 addi- 

 tional species. After erasing the names of a few from the first 

 list, whose occurrence in Guatemala has not been confirmed, the 

 whole Avifauna of that country includes 503 species — a larger 

 number probably than would be found in any country of equal 

 area yet explored. 



We now give the names of the additional species, as we have 

 determined them, the remarks on the localities and habits being 

 added by Salvin. 



1. TuRDUs MiGRATORius, Linn. N.A. 



Coban. This is probably the usual southern limit of this bird, 



