lach, who is still prosecuting his researches into the rich ornithology 

 of the island of Cuba, has recently succeeded in obtaining other 

 specimens. 



The little Californian Athene or Glaucidium, which Cassin has 

 considered to be Temminck's Strix infuscata (Birds of Cal. & Oreg. 

 p. 189), and was called by Audubon Strix passerinoides, appears to 

 be clearly different from the South American bird, which is legiti- 

 mately entitled to bear both of these names. It seems most like the 

 European passei-ina, but has the toes only partially covered with hairs. 

 Unless Wagler's Glaucidium gnoma can be reconciled with it, of 

 which there appears to be much doubt, it will require a new name ; 

 and I should therefore venture to suggest that it be called Glauci- 

 dium californicum. 



The Library of the Philadelphian Academy contains a copy of 

 the rare work called ' Registro trimestre,' published in Mexico in 

 1832, and of which some particulars are given by Mr. Cassin in his 

 ' Birds of California ' (p. 24). Senor De la Llave's generic appellation 

 of Pharomacrus for the group of Trogons called Calurus by Mr. 

 Gould, occurs here in an article entitled " Sobre el Quetzaltolotl, 

 genero nuevo de aves," and is decidedly entitled to adoption. A?, 

 however, De la Llave's specific name " moti-uno" (intended to im- 

 mortalize an illustrious Mexican of that name) is rather unpleasing, 

 I trust that the term paradiseus may have been previously applied 

 to it by Prince Bonaparte. The Prince assigns the date of 1826 to 

 the publication of this name in his ' Conspectus,' but gives no refer- 

 ence, and I cannot find out where this name was first employed. In 

 the second volume of the same work, Senor De la Llave describes 

 four new Humming-Birds under the curious specific titles xicotencal, 

 tzacatl, papantzin and topiltzin ! ! 



Two specimens of the bird which I described in these Proceedings 

 under the name of Cyphorinus albigularis are in the collection of 

 the Philadelphian Academy. They were obtained at Panama by 

 Mr. Bell. I found them marked, to my surprise, Thryothorvs 

 fasciato-ventris, Lafr. (R. Z. 1845, p. 337), and such is indeed the 

 case. My specific name must therefore give place, and the species 

 Thryothorus fasciato-ventris should be elided from the list of Bogota 

 Birds, in which, on Lafresnaye's authority, I have hitherto included 

 it. The same collection also contains an example Of the beautiful 

 Vireolanius icteroj)hrys,I$p. (P. Z. S. 1855, pi. ciii.). 



Besides the three little Thrushes (which have been so much con- 

 founded together, and have received so many names), called in Bona- 

 parte's 'Conspectus,' Turdus solitarius, T. minor and T. wilsoni, 

 Audubon's Turdus nanus appears to me to be also a valid species. It 

 most nearly resembles T. solitarius, of which it is the western re- 

 presentative, but is smaller in size, and has a more densely spotted 

 throat and breast. I cannot understand the reasons that have 

 induced Prince Bonaparte to banish Turdus ncevius, of which I saw 

 many examples in the American collections, from the family of 

 Thrushes, and to place it among the Tcetiiopterines. I cannot at all 

 agree with him on this point. Mr. Bell, who has observed this 



