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L. — On an apparently new Species of Pigmy Parrot of the 

 Genus Nasiterna, By H. B. Tristram, D.D., F.R.S. 



I HAVE lately received through my friend Dr. P. H. Metcalfe, 

 of Norfolk Island, a small collection of birds, made by 

 Dr. Welchman in the little island of Bugotu, just south of 

 Isabel, in the Solomon group. Among them is a Nasiterna, 

 which Dr. Sharpe and Mr. Ogilvie Grant agree with me in 

 considering to be undescribed. It is certainly the smallest 

 of this diminutive genus which has yet been brought to our 

 notice. I propose therefore to describe it as 



Nasiterna nanina, sp. nov. 

 $ . Viridis, nucha pallidiore, subtus Isete viridi-flavescens ; 

 f route flavescente, genis et mento pallide roseis ; remigi- 

 bus nigris viridi-marginatis ; rectricibus mediis Cceruleis, 

 scapis nigris ; cseteris nigris, in pogonio interno macula 

 apicali flava, in externo macula viridi ornatis. Long, 

 tot, poll. 2-8, alse 1-9, caud. 0*7, tars. 0-2. 

 Hab. Bugotu, Ins. Solomonis. 



Unfortunately the only specimen in the collection is a 

 female. Its nearest ally appears to be N.finschi, Rams., 

 from San Christoval, from which, however, it may be at once 

 distinguished by its diminutive size. 



LI. — Descriptions of Five new Species of Birds discovered in 

 Central America by W. B. Richardson. By O. Salvin and 

 F. D. Godman. 

 The following descriptions are taken from specimens col- 

 lected for us by Mr. W. B. Richardson in the Mexican State 

 of Chiapas, and thence southwards to Nicaragua. They 

 form a portion of a large series of skins gathered at various 

 places bordering the Pacific Ocean. Though novelties are 

 comparatively few in these collections, the additions made 

 by them to our knowledge of the distribution of the 

 known forms are very considerable, and when fully worked 

 out they will aid much in tracing the boundaries dividing 

 bird-life in that portion of the globe. Mr. Richardson is 

 still at work in Nicaragua, and has visited the eastern side 



