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valley of the Motagua river to Zacapa and thence to 

 Guatemala City. After a few days at the capital they 

 proceeded to Duenas, staying at the house of Mr. William 

 Wyld, a friend of Salviu's. The time there was spent in 

 collecting, cliieHy in the high forests of the Volcau de Fuego, 

 and in an excursion to Escuintla on the Pacific coast. They 

 then retraced their steps to the capital, and crossing the 

 Chuacus Range into the plain of Salama. stayed for a time 

 at the Hacienda of San Geronimo. Later on, at Cubilguitz, 

 in the low damp forest of the Alta Vera Paz, Godman con- 

 tracted a fever and was unable to accompany Salvin in his 

 arduous journey on foot to Peten. Soon after this, visiting 

 on his way the Alotepeque silver mines and the Copan ruins 

 in Honduras, Godman reached the Atlantic coast again at 

 Yzabal, meeting Salvin, who went back into the interior, 

 while Godman himself came home. 



Three years later Godman went to the Azores for the 

 purpose of investigating the fauna and flora of those islands. 

 Already the careful researches of Wollaston and others had 

 brought to light many interesting forms from Madeira, 

 the Canaries, and Cape Verde Islands, but the Azores had 

 been but little explored zoologically. Accompanied by his 

 brother, Capt. Temple Godman, and subsequently joined by 

 Mr. Brewer, a well-known entomologist, he visited all the 

 islands of the group except Santa jNIariu ; he returned with 

 a good representative collection of birds as well as of the 

 other groups of animals. Among the birds was the new 

 Bullfinch of St. Michaers, described and figured in ' The 

 Ibis' tor 1865 under the name of Pijrrhda inurina. In 

 1870 he published the results of this expedition in book- 

 form under the title of ' The Azores/ and also set forth 

 his reasons for believing that the Azores had never formed 

 a continent or part of a continent and had derived their fauna 

 and flora from neighbouring lands, chiefly western Europe. 

 The visit to the Azores was followed by one to the Canaries 

 and Madeira in 1871, some account of which appeared in 

 ' The Ibis ' for the following year. Owing to quarantine 

 regulations his movements were somewhat curtailed, and his 

 investigations were limited to Tenerife and Madeira. 



