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cannot be used for P. minor, for which the proper generic ap¬ 
pellation appears to be Tachyhaptus of Reichenbach. 
P. L. Sclater. 
News of Mr. Salvin. 
Our Editor, at the date of the last communication with 
which he has favoured his unworthy substitute (October 12), 
was at Antigua, Guatemala. He writes as follows :— 
“ I got a prize the other day from the Yolcan de Fuego, in 
the shape of two pairs of that beautiful little Pigeon Peristera 
mondetoura ! As the species occurs in Mexico and Costa Rica 
it was to be expected in Guatemala; but where to look for it 
I had no notion. It proves to be a highland species, as these 
birds were shot near Calderas, on the Yolcan de Euego, be¬ 
tween 7000 and 8000 feet above the sea. The common P. 
cinerea is found in the lowlands and in Guatemala on both 
sides of the mountains. I am not sure that these Central- 
American birds will not prove to be slightly different from 
the more northern race. The deep vinous colouring of the 
underparts in the former is confined to the pectoral region, 
whereas in the latter it appears to spread more over the ab¬ 
domen. But I hardly know enough of the southern bird to 
feel very confident on the subject. There is a specimen in 
the gallery of the British Museum (said to be from Columbia) 
which has the underparts more overspread with vinous than 
a Mexican specimen (Jalapa) which we have. The Columbian 
bird agrees with Bonaparte^s plate in the f Icon. des Pig/ 
The specimens I now have are like the Mexican birds. Any¬ 
how the difference is slight; and I should think less of it did 
not the bird prove an upland species. The range is curious; 
I can only compare it with that of Bolborhynchus lineolatus. 
“ Another new bird to Guatemala I obtained yesterday, in 
Vireo huttoni, found in Mexico, but never before here. 
“ Yesterday, too, brought me a specimen of our Lophostrix 
stricklandi; an Indian shot it near Escuintla, i. e. in hot 
country. From the highlands I have Psaltriparus melanotis 
at last, and quite a number of Cardellina rubifrons. Of all 
