186 MR. O. SALVIN ON THIRTEEN NEW SPECIES [May 26, 



18. Felis megalotis, Temminck. 

 Hab. Timor (non vidimus). 



19. Felis chaus, Giildeustadt. 



F. catolynx, Pallas. 



F. affinis. Gray. 



F. dongolensis, Hemprich & Ehrenberg. 



F. caligata (?), Bruce. 



F. lybica, Olivier. 



F. kutas, Pearson. 



F. riippellii, Brandt. 



Lynchus erythrotis, Hodgson, 



Hab. India ; North Burma (Arakan) ; South-west Asia ; North- 

 east Africa. South Africa, apud Layard (who gives Kuruman as 

 one locality), in addition to F. cafra. 



N.B. The Egyptian specimen now living in the Society's Gardens 

 is absolutely similar to the common animal of Bengal. 



20. Felis caracal, Schreber. 



Hab. South Asia and Africa ; Central India. 



21. Felis iSABELLiNA, Blyth. 



The Lynx of Tibet. 



Has the naked pads of the soles of the feet much more developed 

 than in F. lynx of Europe. 



2. Descriptions of Thirteen New Species of Birds dis- 

 covered IN Central America by Frederick Godman 

 AND Osbert Salvin. By Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.Z.S. 



(Plates XXIII., XXIV.) 



A partial investigation of the collections made by myself and 

 Mr. F. Godman in Guatemala and the adjacent republics during the 

 latter part of 1861, 1862, and the early part of the present year 

 (1863) has led to the separation of the present thirteen species, 

 which I now propose to describe as new. There are no. marked 

 forms amongst them, the greater part being Central American re- 

 presentatives of North or South American species, the only truly 

 South Mexican and Central American genus being that of Cardellina, 

 of which I now describe a third species. The specimens were col- 

 lected at various points, the district of Peten prodvicing the most 

 novelties ; no less than four out of the whole number were obtained 

 in that part. Our collection from there was small, and I think that 

 more remains to be discovered in that remote region than in any 

 other part of Guatemala. The alternations of savannas and forest 

 offer scope for variety not to be met with elsewhere. Where such 



