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Humming Bird,' vol. v., 1895, pp. 5-7, while the bulk of the col- 

 lection was never reported upon. Mr. Gustav Hopke, in 1 896 and 

 1897, sent a fair series from the same district to Count Berlepsch, 

 who described several new species in the ' Ornithologische Monats- 

 berichte,' vol. v., 1897, pp. 173-176, and in the ' Ornis ' xiv., Feb. 

 ] 907, pp. 347, 361, 365. Mr. Eugene Andre, in 1899, forwarded 

 a large collection of birds, from the environs of Buenaventura 

 and the western slope of the Andes above that town, to Corate 

 de Dalmas, of Paris. Unfortunately, the greater part of it was 

 subsequently destroyed by accident, and merely a list of the 

 Trochilidaj published by Messrs. Simon and de Dalmas in ' Ornis,' 

 X., 1901, pp. 216-224. Lastly, Mr. Outram Bangs, the well- 

 known ornithologist of Boston, who had obtained two of Palmer's 

 eai'lier consignments, gave short accounts of the more interesting- 

 species in the ' Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washing- 

 ton,' vol. xxi., 1908, pp. 157^162,* and xxiii., 1910, pp. 71-76, 

 describing several supposed novelties some of which are undoiib- 

 tedly distinct, while others prove to be identical with species 

 previously named. 



The material discussed in this communication is deposited in the 

 collection of the Zoological Museum at Munich with the exception 

 of the few species given in brackets. 



11. AccouxT OF Mr. Palmer's LocALrriES. 



The whole of Mr. Palmer's collection in possession of the 

 Munich Museum was secured in the province of Choc6, though 

 in two different districts. The bulk is from the hot, tropical 

 valley of the JRio San Juan and its tributaries, the I'amana, 

 Sipi, Condoto, Calima, Cajon, and Garrapatas Kivers, while a 

 smaller number of specimens was collected on the Pacific slope of 

 the Western Cordillera near the head-waters of the San Juan, at 

 altitudes of from 2800 to 8000 feet. 



I am indebted to Mr. Rosenberg for information about the 

 nature and altitude of some of the localities which he had visited 

 himself in 1894. They may be separated into three divisions : — 



(A) Rio Dagua District. 



Sao Joaquim, Bahia del Choco ( = Buenaventura of European 



maps). 

 El Paillon, sevei"al houi's' journey up the Dagua (E. Andre). 

 San Jose, 600 feet (visited by Andre and Hopke). 

 Los Mangos ( = Juntas, Rio Dagua), circa 1000 ft. Hot, tropical 



country. 



* The statement tliat tlie material came from N.W. Colombia, "just south of 

 Darien," is a mistake. I am informed by Mr. Rosenberg that the San Antonio 

 referred to is a villaj;-e on the road from Buenaventura to Cali, just over the pass 

 of the We.-itern Cordillera. Mi-. Hangs appears to have identified it with the Sail 

 Antonio, on the Rio Sucio, a tributary of the Atrato, where, however, Mr. M. G-. 

 Palmer never was. 



