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vailing rufous tinge of the back may not be owmg to the bird being 

 not quite adult. I have not adopted the term mexicanus, which M. 

 Verreaux has used for this species in his MS. as we have already a 

 T)romococcyx mexicanus, which is of a genus not separated by many 

 authors from Diplopterus. 



25. CoNUHiis PETZi CW&g[.).—Sittace petzi, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. 

 p. 650. 



Acapulco. 



This species very closely resembles the South American C. auretes. 

 I have already mentioned three parrots as oceurringin M. Salle's col- 

 lections, namely Plonus senilis and Psittaeula lineola (P. Z. S. 1856, 

 p. 306) and Čhrysotis autumnalis (antea, p. 205). This makes a 

 fourth. Besides these M. Salle found Čhrysotis viridigenalis, 

 Cassin (Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. vi. p. 3/1 ; Journ. iii. pi. 13. p. 153), which 

 seems to be the šame as Souance's C. coccineifroiis (R. Z. 1856, 

 p, 154) common in the tierra caliente, as also C. ochroptera, Gm., 

 (xanthops, Spix). In the šame country M. Salle observed Conurus 

 astec, Souance (R. Z. 1857, p. 97), and two Aras, one of which was 

 most likely Ar a militaris, known to occur in Mexico. These ten 

 species are probably all that occur in this part of Mexico. But on 

 the table-land is found Rhynchopsitta įmchyrhyncha, which extends 

 up to the Rio Grande, -vvhere it was obtained by John Audubon 

 within the Umits of the State of Texas. 



26. Nycticorax gardeni (Gm.). 

 Cateman, December 1856. 



27. Cancroma cochlearia (Linn.). 

 Cateman, January 1857. 



28. Ibis alba (Linn.), juv. 

 Santecomapam, March 1857. 



29. Calidris arenaria (Linn.). 

 Santecomapam, January 1857. 



4. Lįste des Oiseaux rapportes et observes dans la Re- 

 PTjBLiauE Dominicaine (ancienne partie Espagnole de 

 l'Ile St. Domingue oxj d'Haiti), par m. A. Salle, pen- 

 DANT soN voYAGE DE 1849 A 1851. (Commuuicated by 

 Philip Ltjtley Sclater.) 



M. A. Salle has at my reąuest drawn up the following list of birds 

 met Tvith by him in the island of San Domingo, together viith some 

 interesting observations on their habits. We know so little of the 

 ornithology of this interesting island (and indeed of the Antilles gene- 



