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were speedily brought to light. Amongst the many interesting species, of which examples were 

 sent to Mr. Lawrence to be catalogued in his series of papers on Mr. M'Leannan's collections, 

 were examples of this fine Pufi"-bird, of which the true " habitat" was thus definitely ascertained. 

 The collection of Salvin and Godman and my own cabinet were likewise subsequently supplied 

 with examples from the same quarter ; but the bird does not appear to be very abundant in the 

 district traversed by the Panama Railway ; and Mr. Salvin tells me that he did not fall in with 

 it when he visited Mr. M'Leannan in 1863, and inspected his collecting-ground. 



About the Isthmus of Panama this species probably reaches its northern limit, as it has 

 never occurred, so far as I know, in collections from Costa Rica or anywhere else to the north. 

 But southwards it extends far into the interior of the United States of Colombia, as we know 

 from its having been recently obtained by two collectors in that republic. Mr. Claude W. Wyatt 

 met with a single specimen of it in the dense forests of the Magdalena valley during the journey 

 of which he has given such an interesting account in 'The Ibis' for 1871, between Naranjo and 

 the river Magdalena in about 7° N. lat. Mr. Wyatt noted the iris as " brown." More to the 

 westward Mr. T. K. Salmon fell in with it on the Rio Neche or Nichi — a confluent of the Rio 

 Cauca, where his collecting-place was a little above Dos Bocas. 



Both Mr. Wyatt's and Mr. Salmon's specimens, which are now in the collection of Messrs. 

 Salvin and Godman, fully agree with the Panama skins. 



The series of Bucco joectoralis before me consists of the following specimens : — 



No. 



Sex. 



Mus. 



Pafcria. 



Long, tota, 



alse, 



caudae, 



rostri. 



1. 



inc. 



P. L. S. 



Panama [M^Leannan). 



8-0 



3-9 



3-2 



1-5 



3. 



6 



S.-G. 



Panama [M^Leannan) . 



80 



40 



3-2 



1-6 



3. 



inc. 



S.-G. 



Chepo^ Panama {Arce). 



8-2 



3-8 



3-3 



1-6 



4. 



inc. 



S.-G. 



Valley of Magdalena [Wyatt). 



8-2 



3-7 



3-2 



1-5 



5. 



d 



S.-G. 



Antioquia {Salmon). 



90 



3-8 



3-3 



1-5 



The example figured (Plate XXIV.) is No. 1. 



