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245 specimens of Parrots from Mexico and Central America. Supple- 

 mentary collection. (S. G. Keg., Vol. IV., pp. 364-368.) [96. 12. 1, 1-245.] 



200 specimens of Goatsuckers {Caprimulgidae) from Texas and Mexico. 

 Supplementary collection. (S. G. Keg., Vol. IV., pp. 370-373.) [97. 2. 

 1, 1-200.] 



262 specimens of Cuckoos (CucuUdae) from Mexico and Guatemala. 

 Supplementary collection. (S. G. Kes;., Vol. IV., pp. 375-380.) [97. 4. 

 1, 1-262.] 



510 specimens of Turdidx, Trofjlodytidse, Mimidx, etc., from Mexico, 

 Guatemala, and Nicaragua. Supplementary collection. 2 types of species 

 new to science and 2 new to the Museum. (S. G. Keg., IV., pp. 381- 

 390.) [97. 10. 1, 1-510.] 



298 specimens from the Lesser Antilles, collected by Mr. and Mrs. H. H. 

 Smith, including 3 new to the national collection. (S. G. Reg., IV., 

 pp. 411-416.) [98. 2. 8, 1-298.] 



14 specimens from Colombia, etc., with 3 types and 5 new to the 

 Museum. (S. G. Reg., IV., p. 417.) [98. 3. 12, 1-14.] 



990 specimens of Woodpeckers [^Picidss], principally from Mexico. 

 (S. G. Reg., IV., pp. 418-437.) [98. 3. 14, 1-990.] 



The type of Melanerpes canescens, Salvin. 



321 specimens of various species from California, Texas, etc., received 

 from Mr. C. K. Worthen. (S. G. Reg. IV., pp. 440-446.) [98. 7. 12, 

 1-304 ; 1900. 2. 26, 1-17.] 



8 species new to the Museum. 



Dr. F. D. Godman was born at Park Hatch, near Godalming, in 

 Surrey, in 1834. He was educated at Eton and at Cambridge. While 

 at the University he became acquainted with Osbert Salvin and Professor 

 Newton and his brother. Sir Edward Newton, and, with them and a few 

 other kindred spirits, he assisted in founding the British Ornithologists' 

 Union, with its journal, the " Ibis." 



Having been prevented by an accident from joining Canon Tristram 

 and Mr. Salvin in their expedition to Algeria in the spring of 1857, he 

 went with his brother Percy to Bodu in northern Norway, where the 

 travellers made a good collection of birds and eggs, taking several nests of 

 the Great Snipe. Crossing thence from Alten they visited John Wolley 

 at Munioniska, where he was then living, and, descending the Tornea River 

 to the Gulf of Bothnia, they afterwards visited Stockholm, St. Petersburg, 

 Moscow and Nishni Novgorod, before returning to England. 



In August, 1861, Dr. Godman went with Mr. Salvin to Guatemala, 

 remaining a month in Jamaica en route. A year was spent in Guatemala, 

 collecting birds and insects in various parts of the country. While there 

 they instructed some natives in the art of preserving bird-skins, and by 

 these pupils several collections were afterwards despatched to Elngland. 

 The best known of these collectors was Enrique Arce, who did some 

 excellent work in Costa Rica and Panama. 



Dr. Godman returned home in 1862, and in 1865 he went to the 

 Azores, visiting the islands of St. Michael, Terceira, Fayal, Pico, Flores 

 and Corvo, and making a good collection of birds and insects, discovering 

 a new species of Bullfinch, Fyrrhtda murina. In 1871 he spent three 

 months in the Canaries, visiting Tenerife, Palma, and Gran Canaria, but, 

 in consequence of the prevalence of small-pox, communication between 

 the islands was difficult. 



In 1886 Dr. Godman joined Mr. H. J. Elwes in an expedition to 

 Native Sikhim, and as in the autumn of 1887 he had to go abroad for 

 the benefit of his health, he started for Mexico, taking with him the 



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