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In the Ibis for 1869, p. 310, Mr. Salvin gives additions and correc- 

 tions to Lawrence's Catalogue as follows : Fourteen species were re- 

 moved for various reasons as not properly belonging to the fauna of 

 Costa Rica, while thirteen were added which had been overlooked by 

 Mr. Lawrence. Errors in nomenclature were corrected in the case of 

 seven species. As a result Mr. Salvin leaves the list with just one 

 species less than given in the "Catalogue" of Lawrence, viz: five 

 hundred and nine species. 



In the Ibisiox 1870, p. 107, Mr. Salvin gives additional corrections 

 and additions to Mr. Lawrence's Catalogue, and after supplying some 

 critical notes on the nomenclature of a few species (some of which have 

 subsequently been found erroneous), he gives a list of nineteen species 

 not hitherto recorded from that country, a portion of which had been 

 described as new by himself, and others of which had previously been 

 taken in Chiriqui, or other places to the north of Costa Rica. At the 

 end of the article he sums up the results as follows : 



Species. 



Number as given in Lawrence's list, with appendix 511 



Additions by Salvin in Ibis {ox 1869 (less two included by Lawrence in his ap- 

 pendix) II 



Additions by Salvin, Ibis, 1870 19 



Total 541 



Species. 



Deduct six Veraguan species of Hummingbirds 6 



Also 14 species in Salvin's paper of 1869 14 



Also Capito hartlaubi (synonym) in Salvin's paper of 1869 I 



21 21 



Total species remaining 5 20 



In the year 1869 Dr. A. von Frantzius published in the Journal fiir 

 Ornitho/ogie, under the title of " Ueber die geographische Verbreitung 

 der Vogel Costaricas und derer Lebensweise, " a list of the birds of 

 Costa Rica with introductory remarks on the geography of the country 

 and the fauna in general. He divides Costa Rica into four faunal 

 areas as follows : (1) The " Meer- und Strand-region" ; (2) The 

 Tropical Lowlands extending to an altitude of 2,000 feet ; (3) The 

 Subtropical Region, from 2,060 to 6,000 feet; and (4) The Moun- 

 tain Region, all over 6,000 feet. 



(1) This region seems to include only the bare sea-coast, with the 

 lagoons and estuaries inhabited by water- and marsh-birds; (2) is the 



