I860.] MR. O. SALVIN ON NEW BIRDS FROM VERAGUA. 67 



This species is larger and more densely haired than Pteropus 

 edwa/v/sii, found in the same island ; and I do not think that it can 

 be an extraordinary variety of that species. It was sent to the col- 

 lection during the Zambesi exjjedition. 



Pteropus elseyii, sp. nov. 



Fur short, close, uniform reddish brown ; head paler and duller ; 

 neck, upper part of shoulders, and chest bright pale red bay ; under- 

 side of body reddish bay ; sides of the body and near the shoulders 

 pale yellowish. 



Young. Back black, grey-washed ; belly black brown ; neck bay ; 

 head blackish grey. 



Hah. North-east coast of Australia : Claremont Island {John 

 Macgillivray, 1860; Dr. J. R. Elseij). 



I name this species after my late friend Dr. Elsey, the Surgeon in 

 one of the Australian Land Expeditions, who collected many speci- 

 mens under great difficulties. 



7. Descriptions of Eight New Species of Birds from Yeragua. 

 By Osbert Salvix, M.A., F.Z.S., &c. 



(Plates VII. & VIII.) 



During the past year two collections of birds were forwarded to 

 Mr. Godman and myself by Enrique Arce from Veragua. One was 

 made near Santiago de Veraguas, and the other near a small village 

 called Santa Fe, which is described as being situated thirty miles 

 nearer to Panama. The two collections comprise 156 species of birds 

 of various orders ; nine of these appear to be new to science, eight 

 of which I now describe. 



Santa Fe is a mountainous district, and the climate temperate, 

 from which I gather, and also from the character of some of the 

 birds sent, that the elevation at which the greater part of the col- 

 lection was made, was from 2000 to 4000 feet. There are no species 

 peculiar to greater altitudes. 



Arce is now at Chiriqui, and I trust ere long to receive a collection 

 from that district. As the few species that have been received 

 thence are mostly of great interest, I have hopes that considerable 

 additions will be made to our collections. Through the exertions 

 of Arce and the collectors who are enriching the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, this section of Central America bids fair to become one of 

 the best-explored of any portion of the Neotropical region. 



In drawing up the following diagnoses I have endeavoured to com- 

 pare the species I describe with as many of their nearest allies as 

 I have access to, thereby, I trust, rendering the task of identifying 

 them less laborious and more certain. In this I have been greatly 

 assisted by Dr. Sclater, and the use of the specimens in his rich 

 collection. 



