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't 86. QuiSCALUS MACRURUS. 



Quiscalus macrurus, Sw. ; Salv. & Godm. Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i. p. 482; Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 570. 



Mugeres I. (December) ; Cozumel I. (April) ; Ruatan I. 



Many examples. The females are rather darker, and the 

 males somewhat smaller, than mainland examples. 



Mr. Gaumer informs us that Q. macrurus, though very- 

 common on Ruatan Island, is not found on the neigh- 

 bouring island of Bonacca. 



-f 87. Cyanolyca yucatanica. 



Cyanolyca yucatanica (Dubois) ; Salv. & Godm. Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i. p. 498, pi. 35. 



Meco I. (November) ; Mugeres I. (December). 



A species peculiar to Yucatan and the adjoining portions 

 of British Honduras. 



-/-88. Xanthura luxuosa. 



Xanthura luxuosa (Less.) ; Salv. & Godm. Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i. p. 502. 



Cozumel I. (January). 



Two specimens with the abdomen clear yellow, as in the 

 bird of the opposite mainland. 



[To be continued.] 



XXIII. — Notes on a small Collection of Birds from Newala, 

 East Africa. By H. B. Tristram, D.D., F.R.S. 



I HAVE just received a small collection of skins, made last 

 year by the Rev. Spencer Weigall, B, A.., of the Universities' 

 Mission to Central Africa, at Newala, a station between the 

 coast and Lake Nyassa, lat. 11° S., 15 miles north of the 

 Rovuma River. 



Though the collection contains nothing new, yet it throws 

 some light on the distribution of South- African birds, and 

 this fact must be my apology for asking to occupy a few lines 

 of ' The Ibis/ 



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