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the external web ; under surface of the body greyish green ; under 

 surface of the wings grey ; vent washed with yellow. 



Totai length, about 8 inches ; bill, | ; wing, 4į ; tarsi, f. 



Hab. The Solomon Islands. 



Remark. — The only specimen I have ever seen, and which is un- 

 fortunately imperfect, being destitute of tail, was sent to me by Mr. 

 Webster, who had visited the above islands. This beautiful" little 

 Pigeou, certainly the most brilliantly coloured of the entire group, 

 has been named in lionour of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress 

 of the Freuch. 



2. List of Mammals and Birds collected by Mr. Bridges 



IN THE VICINIT\ OF THE ToWN OF DaVID IN THE PrO- 



viNCE orCniRiaui in the State of Panama. By Philip 



LUTLEY SCLATER, M.A. 



The town of David lies in a beautiful plain on the left bauk of the 

 river of the šame name, about twenty-five miles above its exit into 

 the Pacific at Boca Chica. On the west of the town rises the extinct 

 volcano of Chiriqui, a peak 9000 feet iu altitude, and on the north 

 the Sierra de Choreha, a flat table-mountaiu, which here forms the 

 watershed between the two oceans. 



Mr. Bridges arrived at David in the month of January in the pre- 

 sent year, and stayed there until the middle of the foUovring March. 

 He was principally eugaged in coUecting the magnificent Orchids of 

 that country, of which he succeeded in obtaining a considerable 

 series. During his leisure momeuts, honever, he procured about 

 fifty species of Mammalia and birds, of wliich a list is subjoined. 

 These were principally collected uear the town on the banks of the 

 river, or betweeii that and the ' Boqueti,' — an elevated savannah of 

 about 4000 feet above the sea-level, lying ou the western slope of 

 the volcano of Chiriąui. 



This locaUty is very interesting to uaturalists, being a stage in the 

 passage between North American and South American zoology, which 

 has not, as far as I am aware, been hitherto much explored. M. 

 \Varszewiz, the well-known Polish collector, was resident in David 

 some time in 1849, but did not turn his attention much to birds 

 except TrochiUdte, of which he discovered the six very mteresting 

 new species which were described by Mr. Gould before this Society 

 in 1850. 



Mr. Bridges has very greatly added to the value of my list by sup- 

 plying me with notes upon the exact spot in which he found each 

 species and upon what he recollected of their habits. 



The nearest Bird-fauna to the present of which any detailed 

 accounts have been published are those of Nicaragua, as given by 

 Prince Bonaparte in his catalogue of the Birds brought from that 

 country by Delattre in the Comptes Randus of the Academy of Paris 

 for 1854, and of the interior of New Granada, as shown by my List 



