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Ornithology of Central America . 
Jardine’s f Contributions to Ornithology* * * § / Mr. Joseph Leyland 
of Liverpool has also recently visited the Bay of Honduras for 
the purpose of collecting objects of natural history. Mr. 
Thomas Moore, of the Derby Museum, has drawn up an account 
of the Mammals and Birds collected by Mr. Leyland, and has 
kindly allowed us the use of his MS., which we hope to see 
published shortly. Our southern limit, the line of the proposed 
railway through Honduras, was traversed in 1858 by Capt. G. C. 
Taylor. A list of the birds obtained by him will be found in 
the Proceedings of the Zoological Society f for the same year, 
and is our only authority upon the birds of this district. Far¬ 
ther southwards, the ornithology of Nicaragua has been partly 
explored by DelattreJ and Salle §, and that of Yeragua by 
Mr. Bridges ||, M. Warscewicz ^[, and the surveying expedition 
under the command of Capt. Kellett. The specimens obtained 
from the latter source are now in the British Museum. We 
believe we have now mentioned nearly, if not quite, all the 
authorities on Central American ornithology **. Of such of 
these as relate to the territory within our limits we have of 
course availed ourselves. But we have derived most assist¬ 
ance from the series of bird-skins which have been lately trans¬ 
mitted by George Ure Skinner, Esq., from Guatemala. This 
gentleman, well known for the splendid Orchids ft which he has 
* See Contr. Orn. pi. 17, pi. 33, &c. Some of the duplicates from these 
collections passed into my possession.—P. L. S. 
t See P. Z. S. 1858, p. 356. 
X See “Note sur les collections rapportees en 1853 par M. A. Delattre 
de son voyage en Californie et dans le Nicaragua par Charles Lucien, 
Prince Bonaparte,” Compt. Rend, xxxvii. and xxxviii., and also separately 
printed. 
§ The two beautiful Mammals figured in P. Z. S. 1848, pi. vi. and vii., 
Mycetes palliaius, Gray, and Sciurus dorsalis, Gray, were obtained by 
M. Salle during this journey near Grenada in Nicaragua, and not at 
Caraccas, as there stated. 
|| See P. Z. S. 1856, p. 138. 
See P. Z. S. 1850, p. 162. 
** Whether Dr. Wagner and Dr. Scherzer, who have recently travelled 
through the Central American republics, collected any birds, we do not 
know, but we believe they have not yet published anything on the subject. 
ft Cattleyia skinneri, Barkeria skinneri, Lycaste skinneri, Odonto- 
glossum grande, and many other magnificent species. 
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