As} KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 
A LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED BY COL. N. 8. GOSS IN MEXICO 
AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 
FROM THE COLLECTOR’S NOTES; COMPILED BY D. E. LANTZ, MANHATTAN. 
Read before the Academy October 27, 1897. 
Colonel Goss made several trips to Mexico and Central America in search of 
birds. This was in pursuance of his ambition to have his collection contain rep- 
resentatives of every species of North American birds. In December, 1882, he 
visited Guatemala, and remained in that country for two or three months. He 
entered the state from the southern coast, at San José, and collected mostly near 
that town and at Palin, Naranjo, and Amatitlan. 
In November and December, 1883, he visited Mexico, collecting mainly at 
Lerdo and Florido. He also visited Lower California during the following spring. 
In December, 1885, he again visited Guatemala, landing at Santa Tomas, on 
the northeast coast, and collecting for several weeks on the Chocan river at 
Puerto Barrios and at Santa Tomas. In February, 1886, he made his way north- 
ward to Belize, in British Honduras, and spent a short time collecting in that 
vicinity. : 
In the early months of 1887, Colonel] Goss made a second trip to the Gulf of 
Honduras, staying for a short time at Puerto Cortez, and collecting mostly at 
Chaloma, in Spanish Honduras. He then again made his way westward to Brit- 
ish Honduras in February, when he collected at Cayo. From this point, guided 
by Indians, he made a short but laborious trip into the mountains of Guatemala 
to Yaxa, where he secured the pair of ocellated turkeys which he prized so 
highly. 
In November, 1887, he visited Mexico, on the west coast, collecting at Altata, 
Limoncito, Rinconada, Culiacan, La Paz, and at San Pedro Martir island, in the 
Gulf of California. He extended his stay well into the following March. On this 
trip he succeeded in capturing two apparently new species of boobies: Sula 
brewsteri and Sula gossii. (The latter was later shown to be identical with Sula 
nebouxii Milne-Edwards.) 
In January, 1889, another visit to Mexico was extended into the southern part. 
He collected mainly at Coatepec. It was on his return from this trip, while in 
the City of Mexico, that the colonel was robbed of his collecting gun and fhe 
valuable notes which he had made. 
His last southern trip was made in December, 1889, and lasted for several 
weeks. He visited Granada and Los Sabalos, in Nicaragua, and the San Juan 
valley, in northern Costa Rica. 
A detailed list of the species secured, with localities, follows: 
~1. Tinamus robustus Scl. and Salv. Male and female. Santa Tomas, Guat. 
~ 2. Crypturus sallaeii Bonap. 1 male. Naranjo, Guat. 
-3. Crypturus sallaeii (nob.) 1 male. Coatepec, Mex. 
4, Phaeton althereus Linn. 2 males, 1 female. San Pedro Martir Isle, Gulf 
of Cal. 
_5. Sula nebouxii Milne-Edwards. Male and female, and 2 eggs. San Pedro 
Martir Isle, Gulf of Cal. 
~6. Sula sula (Linn.) Male and female. Belize, Br. Hond. 
_7. Sula brewsteri Goss. Male and female. San Pedro Martir Isle, Gulf of Cal. 
-8. Phalacrocorax pencillatus Brandt. 4specimens. La Paz, Lower Cal. 
“9. Fregata aquila (Linn.) 1 male, 2 females. Belize, Br. Hond. 
10. Carina moschata (Linn.) 1 female. Naranjo, Guat. 
