1870.] ON VENEZUELAN BIRDS. 779 
the tympanum ; the nuchal spines are low, broad, triangular, strongly 
compressed laminze ; specimens with black radiating streaks through 
the eye are very common. ‘his form requires to be named; and I 
have great pleasure in dedicating it to Mr. Jerdon, who of late years 
has worked so successfully to supplement and correct the observations 
made by him many years ago. This species will stand as Calotes 
Jerdoni. 
For the accompanying illustration (Plate XLV.) I have chosen 
specimens with different ornamental colours, the bright coloration of 
the head of the male of C. maria being peculiar to this sex during 
the breeding-season. 
8. On Venezuelan Birds collected by Mr. A. Goering. By 
P. L. Scuater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., and Oszert Savin, 
M.A., F.L.S.—Part [V.* 
(Plates XLVI., XLVIL.) 
In our last article on Mr. Goering’s collections we spoke of his 
intended expedition into the Sierra Nevada of Merida. ‘The col- 
lection made by Mr. Goering during this journey has lately been re- 
ceived in this country, and we now proceed to give an account of it. 
As we have already stated, Mr. Goering reached Merida by way 
of the Lake of Maracaibo and Zuliar, arriving in that city on the 
5th of April, 1869. From that date until the following August the 
weather was unusually dry. 
From Merida Mr. Goering made excursions to the Paramos de la 
Culata, which lie on the ridges to the north of the city, and also to 
the Sierra Nevada, which overhangs it on the south. He also visited 
the Laguna de Urao, or Natron Lake, which lies some miles to the 
west of Merida, and the Puente Natural, or Natural Bridge, of Copas, 
north-west of Merida on the River Copas, which flows into the Lake 
of Maracaibo, where there is a nesting-place of Steatornis caripensis. 
Leaving Merida on the 30th of October, 1869, Mr. Goering set 
out to return by land to Puerto Cabello, intending to collect en route. 
But on reaching Carache a revolution broke out, which rendered it 
necessary for him to retreat to the Lake of Maracaibo, and so by 
sea to La Guayra. 
In Megida and its vicinity Mr. Goering formed a collection of 
135 specimens of birds, which are referable to 106-species. Amongst 
these, as will be seen by the subjoined list, are many of great interest 
to the naturalist, and not less than nine which appear to have been 
hitherto undescribed+. This is hardly to be wondered at when we 
* See Part I., P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 165; Part IL., P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 626; and 
Part III., P. Z. 8. 1869, p. 250. 
+  Setophaga albifrons. Ochthoéca superciliosa. 

Diglossa gloriosa. nigrita. 
Chlorospingus goeringi. Conurus rhodocephalus. 
Buarremon meride. Urochroma dilectissima. 
Grallaria griseonucha, 
