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cent authors requires a new name. Owing to the small size of this 

 form, he has named it • k Brcnta minima, sp. nov. Little Cackling 

 Goose" (= Bernicla canadensis, d. leucopareia; 13. B. bi. R., Water Birds 

 N. Amer., I, 1SS4, pp. 456, 429). 



A new Warbler (Granatellus salla'i boucardi subsp. nov.)* is de- 

 scribed from Yucatan, and also two new birds from Costa Rica,t namely 

 Cyanocorax cucullatus, sp. nov., and Vircolanius puhhellus vcrticaliss. 

 subsp. nov. 



Three Honey Creepers supposed to be new, namely, Certhiola finscki, 

 sp. nov., C. sundevalli, "sp. nov. (?)," and C. sancti-tkomce, sp. nov., 

 are described, and a 'Synopsis' is given of the species of the genus 

 Certhiola,% of which 19 are recognized, and of which are given the prin- 

 ciple references and synonyms. 



Catkartes urubitinga Pelzeln is identified with C. burrovianus Cassin, 

 by comparison of typical specimens of the former with Cassin's type of 

 C. burrovianus.% Also Onyckotcs gruberi Ridg. is found to be the 

 Pandion solitarius of Cassin, || which now becomes O: solitarius (Cass.). 

 Its habitat proves to be the Sandwich Islands, thus removing the 

 species from the list of North American birds. Mr. Ridgway gives 

 measurements of the five specimens known to him to be extant, includ- 

 ing Cassin's type. There is still another example in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, which, having been submitted to Mr. Ridgway 

 since the publication of his paper, he pronounces to be almost precisely 

 like Cassin's type — an adult in the light phase of plumage. — J. A. A. 



Nutting on Nicaraguan Birds. The collection forming the basis of the 

 present paper^f was made by Mr. Nutting at four localities, so chosen as to 

 form a chain of stations extending across the greater part of Nicaragua, 

 from east to west. The first of these is San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific 

 coast, where 70 species were obtained, of which 48 are recorded "for the 

 first time from Nicaragua." The second is Sucuya, 22 miles northwest of 

 San Juan del Sur. Here 88 species were collected. The third is the Island 

 of Ometepe, in Lake Nicaragua, where 50 species were obtained. The 

 fourth is Los Sabalos, on the Rio San Juan del Norte, about 30 miles from 

 Lake Nicaragua. This locality furnished 78 species, including five new. 

 Most of the species were obtained at more than one of these localities — 

 some at all — while about half seem not to have been previously reported 



* Description of a New Warbler fronn Yucatan, find., p. 23. 



t Description of two New Birds from Costa Rica. Ibid., pp. 23, 24. 



X Description of thruc supposed new Honey Creepers from the Lesser Antilles, 

 with a Synopsis of the Species of the Genus Certhiola. Ibid., pp. 25-30. 



$ On Cathartes burrovianus, Cassin, and C. urubitinga, Pelzeln. Ibid., pp. 34-36. 



|| On Onychotcs gruberi. Ibid., pp. 36-38. 



H On a Collection of Birds from Nicaragua. By Charles C. Nutting. Edited by R. 

 Ridgway. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., VI, pp. 372-410. (Published Dec. 29-April n, 1884.) 



