328 Mr. O. Salvia's Visit to the 



is included in the birds collected by the late Col. A. J. Grayson 

 at Mazatlan. At Las Bocas de Silan Dr. Cabot also found 

 A. albiventris, Lawr. 



CrYPTURUS SALL.EI. 



The presence of a specimen of this species in Dr. Cabot^s 

 collection is interesting, showing its range to extend into Yu- 

 catan. In Guatemala, so far as I know, it is only to be found 

 on the southern slope of the mountains in the hot country 

 bordering the Pacific Ocean. 



Collection of Dr. T. K. Merriit, Flushing, Long Island. 

 Whilst staying in New York I visited Dr. Merritt, the dis- 

 coverer of Microchera albocoronata, at his house in Flushing, 

 Long Island. I was especially anxious to see the Pigeon col- 

 lected by him in Veragua, and described by Mr. Lawrence as 

 Geotrygon veraguensis (Lawr. Ann. Lyc.N.Y.viii. p. 349,1866). 

 Dr. Merritt kindly allowed Mrs. Salvin to take a sketch of 

 the type specimen, which is here reproduced (Plate XII.) . The 

 species is a most distinct one, having no very near ally in this 

 remarkable genus. It, perhaps, comes nearer to G. costari- 

 censis, Lawr. (Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 136, 1868), than to any 

 other, but difi'ers from that species in being smaller, and in 

 having the hind neck and breast reddish purple, the former 

 tinged with metallic lustre. G. costaricensis has the hind 

 neck lustrous green, the interscapular region and shoulders 

 alone being purple, and the breast slaty blue. Dr. Merritt 

 told me that this Pigeon was quite common in the district in 

 which he was residing, which was el Mineral de Veraguas, 

 situated on the north-eastern slope of the Cordillera, to the 

 south-eastward of the Chiriqui Lagoon. This district he de- 

 scribed to me as exceedingly humid, and as entirely clothed 

 with the densest tropical forest. Of G. costaricensis I saw a 

 beautiful example in Mr. Lawrence^s collection ; and I find 

 that a bird in our collection thus named, though resembling 

 it in general coloration, diflfers considerably in having the 

 wing-coverts, back, and uropygium dark umber-brown, instead 

 of rich cinnamon. The front, too, is almost pure white, and 

 not brownish salmon- colour. I have therefore no choice but 



