3(>2 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



coastal plain and slopes up to 2,000 feet; and (3) is the highlands 

 ( ' ' hochebene " ) of San Jose, with surrounding towns and villages, such 

 as Heredia, Alajuela, San Juan, Mojon, Guadaloupe, San Antonio, Los 

 Anonos, Santa Ana, Pacaca, Atenas, Desmonte and Aguacate ; and in 

 the vicinity of Cartago, the outlying villages of Orosi, Navarro and 

 Agua Caliente. He asserts that the bird-fauna of Costa Rica is of 

 South American origin, which is true only in part. 



No attempt is made to differentiate the Caribbean and Pacific faunae, 

 in fact at that time little was known concerning the fauna of the 

 Caribbean lowlands. The list contains very little original matter, a 

 greater portion of it being taken from Lawrence's Catalogue, pub- 

 lished the previous year, which he has followed in the nomenclature 

 used, and the order of families and genera. 



During the years 1867 and 1868 appeared " Exotic Ornithology," by 

 Sclater and Salvin, which has an indirect bearing on the ornithology 

 of Costa Rica, in that it contains descriptions and plates of twenty- 

 four species of birds now known to inhabit Costa Rica, but of which 

 at the time of publication only a part had been taken in that 

 country. 



From 1870 until 1878, a few small papers appeared, but nothing of 

 much importance. In the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London for 1878, Mr. Adolph Boucard published the results of a col- 

 lecting trip made in Costa Rica during the previous year. A list of 

 the species taken is given together with a description and plate of /unco 

 vulcani. Mr. Boucard spent several months in Costa Rica, collecting 

 at Puntarenas (where he took the type of Agyrtria boucardi), San Jose, 

 Cartago, Orosi, Navarro, Volcan de Irazu, Juan Vinas and on the San 

 Carlos River, probably at the Commandancia de San Carlos. His list 

 is well arranged and gives much valuable information on the distribu- 

 tion of the species. 



In 1 88 1 Mr. Nutting spent some time in Costa Rica, collecting for the 

 United States National Museum at La Palma de Nicoya, San Jose, and on 

 the Volcan de Irazu. Lists of the species collected were published in the 

 Proceedings of the United States National Museum for the year 1882 ; 

 the list of species from La Palma being prepared by Mr. Nutting and 

 that from San Jose and Irazu by Mr. Ridgway with notes by Nutting. 



In the same year Senor don Jose Zeledon, the eminent Costa Rican 

 ornithologist, published a list of the Birds of Costa Rica, entitled 

 " Catalago de las Aves de Costa Rica," which is very complete and 



