176 MR. 0. SALVIN ON THE BIRDS OF VERAGUA. [ Mar. 24, 
into the present list the species concerning which fresh information, 
whether of distribution or classification, has been acquired. Al- 
though the greater number of species recorded in my former paper 
are here re-introduced, a considerable addition to our knowledge of 
their local distribution is made, and our information of the whole 
subject brought down to the most recent date in a complete form. 
Since 1867 Arcé has had the field to himself, no other naturalist 
having worked in his immediate district; though in the adjoining 
country of Costa Rica the Messrs. Carmiol and others have continued 
their assiduous labours, I have, then, nothing to add to the history 
of the literature of the birds of Veragua. The birds (of Arcé’s col- 
lecting) described in these Proceedings since 1867 by Mr. Sclater 
and myself will all be inserted in their places ; so it is unnecessary to 
enumerate them here. 
That no small success has attended Arcé’s labours will be manifest 
on referring to the total number of species of birds now given as in- 
habitants of Veragua. Nor are the novelties few or insignificant. 
The result shows that even the most limited areas of this rich coun- 
try, when diligently examined, seldom fail to reveal some striking 
novelty, the existence of which in some cases could have in no way 
been anticipated, every gap in the distribution of allied forms being 
apparently filled in. The whole number of new species described 
since 1867, together with those now given, amounts to nineteen. 
Their names are as follows:—Thryothorus semibadius, Buthraupis 
arcei, Pyranga testacea, Tachyphonus nitidissimus, T. chrysomelas, 
Chlorospingus punctulatus, C. hypopheus, Grallaria princeps, Lep- 
totriceus superciliaris, Empidonax atriceps, Chiromacheris auran- 
tiaca, Antrostomus saturatus, Chetura fumosa, Lophornis adorabi- 
lis, Selasphorus torridus, S. ardens, Eupherusa egregia, Chloronerpes 
simplex, Melanerpes chrysauchen. 
Besides these nineteen species, five others are now added to the 
Central-American fauna, viz. Leistes guianensis, Pseudocolaptes 
boissoneauti, Thamnophilus immaculatus, Stenopsis cayennensis, 
and Urubitornis solitaria. 
The genera now first introduced into the Central-American fauna 
are Buthraupis, Leptotriccus, Leistes, Pseudocolaptes, Stenopsis, 
and Urubitornis. 
My first paper on the birds of Veragua records the occurrence 
of 216 species of birds in that country*. This number Arcé has 
now exactly doubled, by having transmitted no less than 216 ad- 
ditional species, thus raising the whole number to 432. It is more 
than probable that this number will be considerably increased ; for 
in Costa Rica 520 species are recorded as inhabitants of that 
country, whilst on the Panama Railway-line the number is about 
400. 
Of these 432 species, 113 are not included in the Costa-Rican list, 
and at least 70 more are found at Panama which have not as yet been 
recorded from either Veragua or Costa Rica. From these figures we 
* The actual number is 220, from which 4 (viz. nos. 37, 93, 159, and 206) 
must be deducted, the species being now otherwise determined. 
