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vailing rufous tinge of the back may not be owing to the bird being 

 not quite adult. I have not adopted the term mexicanus, which M. 

 Verreaux has used for this species in his MS. as we have already a 

 Vromococcyx mexicanus, which is of a genus not separated by many 

 authors from Diplopterus. 



25. Conxjrxjs petzi (Wagl.). — Sittace petzi, Wagl. Mon. Psitt. 

 p. 650. 



Acapulco. 



This species very closely resembles the South American C. aureus. 

 I have already mentioned three parrots as occurring in M. Salle's col- 

 lections, namely Pionus senilis and Psittacula lineola (P. Z. S. 1856, 

 p. 306) and Chrysotis autumnalis {antea, p. 205). This makes a 

 fourth. Besides these M. Salle found Chrysotis viridiyenalis, 

 Cassin (Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. vi. p. 3/1 ; Journ. hi. pi. 13. p. 153), which 

 seems to be the same as Souance's C. coccineifrons (R. Z. 1856, 

 p. 154) common in the tierra caliente, as also C. ochroptera, Gm., 

 (xanthops, Spix). In the same country M. Salle observed Conurus 

 astec, Souance (R. Z. 1857, p. 97), and two Aras, one of which was 

 most likely Ara militaris, known to occur in Mexico. These ten 

 species are probably all that occur in this part of Mexico. But on 

 the table-land is found Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha, which extends 

 up to the Rio Grande, where it was obtained by John Audubon 

 within the limits of the State of Texas. 



26. Nycticorax gardeni (Gm.). 

 Cateman, December 1856. 



27. Cancroma cochlearia (Linn.). 

 Cateman, January 1857. 



28. Ibis alba (Linn.), juv. 

 Santecomapam, March 1857. 



29. Calidris arenaria (Linn.). 

 Santecomapam, January 1857. 



4. LlSTE DES OlSEAUX RAPPORTES ET OBSERVES DANS LA Re- 

 PUBLIQUE DoMINICAINE (ANC1ENNE PARTIE EsPAGNOLE DE 



l'Ile St. Domingue oh d'Haiti), par M. A. Salle, pen- 

 dant son voyage de 1849 A 1851. (Communicated by 

 Philip Lutley Sclater.) 



M. A. Salle has at my request drawn up the following list of birds 

 met with by him in the island of San Domingo, together with some 

 interesting observations on their habits. We know so little of the 

 ornithology of this interesting island (and indeed of the Antilles gene- 



