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Family Ardeiclse. 



5. Heterocnus cabanisi Heine. 



One of these bitterns was shot beside a brook in a growth of 

 heavy timber near Los Amates. Another was flushed from a wet 

 place out in an open savanna where grass grew high as one's head. 

 Iris yellow; throat yellow; ocular and loral area, greenish yellow. 



6. Cochlearis zeledoni (Ridgway). 



Two birds of this species were discovered in a large, densely foli- 

 aged tree standing on the bank of the Motagua river at Gualan. One 

 of them was secured; no others were seen. The land in this vicinity 

 is high and rolling and offers no other feeding place for herons than 

 the shores of the river, which are rather abrupt. 



7. Butorides virescens (Linnceus). 



This species was found generally distributed, but nowhere abun- 

 dant. One specimen was procured at Los Amates and another at 



Lake Atitlan. 



Family Rallidse. 



8. Porzana Carolina (Linnaeus). 



Three of this species were taken at Lake Atitlan between Feb- 

 ruary 23d and March pth, and one at Lake Amatitlan February 6th. 

 All had black throats, only one having this color intermixed with 

 gray. A narrow fringe of rushes along the shores of these lakes is 

 all the shelter rails can find, and it is not surprising that they appear 

 to winter there in small numbers. 



9. Qallinula galeata (Lichtensteiri) . 



The only specimen of this gallinule, that was seen, was taken at 

 Lake Amatitlan February 26th. It was in a patch of rushes on the 

 shore of the lake near a thermal spring where the water is always 

 quite warm. 



10. Fulica americana (Gmeliri). 



Hundreds of these birds throng near the shores of lakes Amatitlan 

 and Atitlan all winter. Only three specimens were taken. 



