130 MR. O. SALVIN ON THE BIRDS OF VERAGUA. [Jan. 24, 



Mr. Gould under the new generic name Oreopyra, as O. leucaspis, in 

 the 'Proceedmgs' for 1860, p. 312. In the ' Proceedings' for the 

 year 18.53, p. 45, a new species of Toucan {AulacorhcanpJms cceru- 

 leogidaris) was defined by Mr. Grould from a specimen collected in 

 Veragua by Dr. Berthold Seemann, who obtained it when travelling 

 as naturalist to H.M.S. ' Herald.' Mr. Gould says this bird was ac- 

 companied by other ornithological rarities, of which unfortunately 

 we have no record. In the year 1853, also, MM. Verreaux published 

 their description of Chasmorhynchus tricarunculatus in the ' Revue 

 Zoologique,' p. 193, from an immature specimen transmitted to them 

 from Boca del Toro. The next notice we have is in the ' Annals of 

 the New York Lyceum' for 1855 (vol, vi. p. 137), which contains 

 a description by Mr. G. N. Lawrence of the beautiful Humming- 

 bird (Microchera albo-coi'onata), with notes on its habits by its dis- 

 coverer. Dr. J. K. Merritt, and also on those of Eutoxeres aquila, 

 Bourc. These birds were obtained in the district of Belen, which 

 lies to the south-eastward of the Chiriqui lagoon, on the Atlantic 

 slope of the Cordillera. Our 'Proceedings' for 1856 contain two 

 papers referring to Veraguan birds. The first is at p. 107, by Mr. 

 G-ould, where two new species are described (Troy on aurantiiventris 

 and Odontophorus veraguensis) from specimens collected by Mr. 

 Bridges near David. The second paper, by Mr. Sclater (p. 139), 

 gives a complete list of Mr. Bridges' s collection, which contained spe- 

 cimens of forty-six species, two of which are described as new, viz. 

 Thamnophilus bridgesi and Geotrygon chi?'iquensis. In this paper 

 short notes on the habits of each species are supplied by Mr. Bridges. 

 The next paper I have to notice is by Mr. G. N. Lawrence, on a col- 

 lection transmitted to the Smithsonian Institution by Mr. F. Hicks 

 from David. This paper, published in the ' Annals of the New York 

 Lyceum,' riii. p. 174, enumerates thirty-nine species, three of which 

 are introduced as new, viz. Spermophila coUaris, Elainea chiri- 

 quensis, and E. semifiava. 



Lastly, in the same journal (June, 1866), Mr. Lawrence describes 

 what appears to be a very beautiful Pigeon, of the genus Geotrygon, 

 apparently allied to the West-Indian forms G. caniceps, Gundl., of 

 Cuba, and G. cristata, Temm. (Bp. Consp. ii. p. 70), of Jamaica. 

 This bird was obtained by Dr. Merritt, the discoverer of Microchera 

 albo-coronata, in the district of Belen, and seems to have remained 

 unnoticed in his collection since the year 1852. 



I now come to Arce's collections, some of the new species of which 

 have been already described in these 'Proceedings' by myself; but 

 as these are incorporated into the subjoined list, I need not refer to 

 them here. , 



There are twenty-three species of birds included in these collections 

 which have not hitherto been noticed within the limits of the Central 

 American fauna. Nine of these have been described as new from 

 these specimens ; and the rest are South American species, now shown 

 to be of wider range. The new genera introduced are : — (Tyrannidee) 

 Colopterus and Serpophagu ; (Trochi/idce) Dorifera and Clais; 

 ( CiicuUdce) Neomorphiis ; (Cracidce) Chamcepetes. 



