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case ; confounded the Tibicusi with Washiba in the 

 second instance, being misled by the term bow-wood 

 applied to each ; and misapplied the term Black green- 

 heart to Dakamaballi in the third case. 



If Mr. McTuRK would obtain specimens of the flowers, 

 fruits, and leaves of each kind of the trees confounded, 

 it would be an easy way of definitely settling the matter; 

 and he would be doing a service not only for the Haarlem 

 Museum, but for the colony and for science generally. 



Additions to the Guiana Fauna. — In a small collection 

 of twenty-eight species of birds, recently forwarded to 

 London to be mounted for the Colonial Museum, and 

 which were most kindly determined for me by Dr. 

 SCLATER, F.R.S., the Secretary of the Zoological 

 Society of London, and the well-known ornithologist, 

 the following four species occur, which had hitherto 

 been unknown from the colony, and which are, therefore, 

 not recorded in the list of Birds of British Guiana, 

 lately published in the Ibis by Mr. O. SALVIN. 

 i. — Cathartes (Catharista) urubitinga. 

 2. — Querquedula cyanoptera. 

 3. — Erismatura do mini ca. 

 4. — Porzana flaviventris. 

 Of these, the first is a species of carrion crow ; the 

 second and third are ducks, and the fourth a crake. 



Detailed description of these and the other members 

 of their genera or kind occurring in the colony, will 

 be given in a later issue. 



Sea-anemones in Guiana. — In last issue of Timehri, 

 page 311, it was stated that no true- coral forming zoo- 

 phyte or sea-anemone had so far been met with on the 

 coasts of Guiana. I am glad, therefore, to be able to 



