X INTEODUCTION. 



belonging to the Henshaw collection before they were sent to England. We are 

 also much indebted to Professor Eidgway and the late Professor Baird, of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and others, for the loan of various birds. 



Salvia's numerous ornithological papers (some of them written in collaboration with 

 Dr. P. L. Sclater), based upon the collections made by him or by myself in Guatemala 

 and British Honduras, are almost too well known to need recapitulation. Still, it 

 will not be out of place to give the titles of the most important of them here : — 



(1) Ornithology of Central America^ by P. L. Sclater and O. Salvin. Ibis^ 1859, pp. 1-22, 



117-138, 213-234. 



(2) Contributions to the Ornithology of Guatemala, by O. Salvin and P. L. Sclater. Ibis, 1860, 



pp. 28-45, 272-278, 396-402. 



(3) Notes on the Humming-birds of Guatemala, by O. Salvin. Ibis, 1860, pp. 259-272. 

 c (4) History of the Derbyan Mountain-Pheasant, by O. Salvin. Ibis, 1860, pp. 248-253. 



(5) On the Nesting of some Guatemalan Birds, by Robert Owen, with some remarks by 0. Salvin. 



Ibis, 1861, pp. 58-69. 



(6) Quezal-shooting in Vera Paz, by O. Salvin. Ibis, 1861, pp. 138-149. 



(7) A List of Species to be added to the Ornithology of Central America, by O. Salvin. Ibis, 



1861, pp. 351-357. 

 y, (8) A Fortnight among the Sea-birds of British Honduras, by O. Salvin. Ibis, 1864, pp. 372- 

 387. 

 (9) The Sea-birds and Waders of the Pacific Coast of Guatemala, by O. Salvin. Ibis, 1865, 

 pp. 187-199. 



(10) A Further Contribution to the Ornithology of Guatemala, by O. Salvin. Ibis, 1866, 



pp. 188-206. 



[612 species were known from Guatemala at this date : it includes Godman^s captures, 

 and makes some corrections to the first paper.] 



(11) On the Psittacidse of Central America, by O. Salvin. Ibis, 1871, pp. 86-100. 



(12) Nomenclator Avium Neotropicalium, by P. L. Sclater and O. Salvin. (1873.) 



The eighty-four hand-coloured Plates issued in this work (including XV. a, LIV. a, 

 LVIII. a, LVIII. I, and LIX. a) have all been drawn by Mr. J. G. Keulemans. 



In conclusion, I may state that the whole of our Ornithological Collections, 

 numbering about 85,000 specimens, have been presented by Salvin and myself to 

 the National Museum at South Kensington. 



F. D. G. 



Novemhtr 1904. 



