Museums of the United States. 327 



Certhiola cABOTi, Baircl, Am. Nat, vii. et N. Am. B. i. 

 p. 427. 



Prof. Baird has recently described this species. It is, as he 

 says, more nearly allied to the bird from the Bahamas, C. 

 bahametisis, than to any other of the genus. This is most sin- 

 gular, for the genus is unrepresented in Cuba ; and yet this 

 species, from the small island of Cozumel, comes much nearer 

 to the Bahama bird than it does to the continental C. mexi- 

 cana, a bird common throughout the lowlands of Eastern 

 Mexico and Guatemala. Besides the specimen in Dr. Ca- 

 bot's collection, there is a second in the Museum of the Bos- 

 ton Society of Natural History, presented by Dr. Cabot. 



Pyranga roseigularis, Cabot. 



Mr. Sclater has recently written an article on this species 

 (Ibis, 1873, p. 126, pi. 3). When in the neighbourhood 

 of Peten, in 1862, 1 hoped to secure specimens of this species, 

 but was disappointed, and at present Dr. Cabot's type specimen 

 remains unique. 



Chrysotis xantholora. G. R. Gray. 



Though I included this Parrot in my paper on the Psit- 

 tacidae of Central America (Ibis, 1871, p. 97) on the faith of 

 a specimen in the British Museum said to have been collected 

 in Honduras by the late Mr. Dyson, I always feared this 

 locality might prove to have been erroneously given to it. I 

 was therefore glad to find two specimens in Dr. Cabot's Yu- 

 catan collection, which leave no doubt as to the true patria of 

 this little-known species. Dr. Cabot had not noticed the dif- 

 erences between this bird and C albifrons, of which he had 

 also collected specimens. 



Aramides axillaris, Lawr. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1863, p. 107. 



Dr. Caliot has a specimen of this species which he collected 

 at a place called Las Bocas de Silan, situated on the northern 

 coast of Yucatan, halfway between Cape Catoche and Sisal. 

 Its range still further north is shown in Mr. Lawrence's re- 

 cently published paper on the birds of Western and North- 

 western Mexico (Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 311), where it 



