22 Rev. H. B. Tristram's Notes 



118. Cyanocorax guatemalensiSj Bp. Consp. p. 380. 

 Also from Cajabon and Honduras. 



119. Cyanurus coronatus (Sw.). Garrulus coronatus, Sw. 

 Phil. Mag. 1827, p. 437; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 359. 



Transmitted by Sefior Constancia. Observed in the barranco 

 of Los Chocoyos, in the Altos of Guatemala. 



120. Calocitta FORMOSA (Sw.). Cyanwus bullockii, Bp. 

 P.Z.S. 1837, p. 115. 



Found abundantly on both the Atlantic and Pacific coast- 

 regions, but never ascends to the central region. 



121. PsiLORHINUS MORIO (Wagl.). 



Occurs on the eastern coast between Quirigua and Iguana, on 

 the road to Guatemala. 



[To be continued.] 



II. — Notes on Birds observed in Southern Palestine, in the months 

 of March and April 1858. By the Rev. H. B. Tristram, 

 F.L.S. 



There is, perhaps, no country frequented by travellers whose 

 Fauna is so little known as that of Palestine. This may arise 

 partly from the more absorbing associations of sacred and his- 

 torical interest, which are of themselves more than sufficient to 

 occupy the attention during the short period usually allotted to 

 a tour in Palestine ; and partly from the extreme difficulty and 

 even danger of pursuing researches in a region so unsettled 

 and lawless. 



The following list makes no pretension to anything like com- 

 pleteness, as ornithology was by no means the principal object 

 of the writei-^s expedition, and the districts most abounding 

 in birds, as the Lebanon, the upper waters of the Jordan, and 

 the wooded regions of Northern Palestine, were not visited by 

 him at all. 



It is put forth rather in the hope that the fact of so many 

 rare and interesting species having been observed in so short a 

 time, may induce succeeding travellers to endeavour to supply 



