466 Letters, Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, &^c. 



Others, as the Collocalia, may be predicated for certain ; but I 

 enumerate only what I have seen. Of Reptiles I have seen two 

 lizards — one the female of apparently a second species of Dilo- 

 phyrus, and the other a new Philsuma, quite distinct from 

 Ph. cepidianum of the Mauritius, — and two snakes — Trigono- 

 cephalus (Trimesurus) cantori, nobis, described from the neigh- 

 bouring group of the Nicobars, and a Tree- Snake, common 

 in the neighbouring countries [Dendrophis jncta) — the latter 

 greener or less bronzed than usual. Of Sea-fishes I have many- 

 novelties, but need not here further allude to them or to speci- 

 mens in other classes. 



I have received of late many good things from China, and am 

 surprised to see how many of our common Bengal birds extend 

 their range to Amoy, with some of those of the S.E. Himalaya, 

 and others of Java and the Philippines. 



Major Tickell has also sent us a fine collection from the 

 mountainous interior of the Tennasserim Provinces : i7iter alia, 

 adults of Buceros tickelli and splendid examples of Podoa per- 

 sonata. Among the few novelties is a new^ Partridge {Peloj)erdix, 

 nobis) congeneric with personata, charltoni, &c. A large pro- 

 portion of the S.E. Himalayan species extend thus far; and so 

 we can understand Psarisoma dalhousice occurring in Sumatra. 



The following extracts from a letter from Mr. Osbert Salvin 

 give some account of his proceedings on his way out, and in 

 Guatemala, up to the end of July last : — 



" At Jamaica I shot Hemiprocne zonaris, Vireosyhna altihqiia, 

 Mellisuga minima, and a Spcrmophila. At Belize I shot nothing, 

 as by mistake all my things were taken off in one of the Yzabal 

 schooners, and I was left behind minus my gun. Two days was 

 I obliged to wait before another schooner sailed, during wdiich 

 time I made what use I could of my eyes, and noted a few spe- 

 cies, all of which, with the exception of Progne dominicensis 

 (as I think it must be), we have recorded in our list. I saw also 

 a pair of Icterus cucullatus exactly like my specimen. These 

 Icteri bother me sadly, particularly /. affinis or something like 

 it, which I have found here. I saw Sterna fuliginosa, and two 

 other species, while passing down the coast. At Yzabal I got 



