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Certhiola caboti, Baird, Am. Nat. vii. et N. Am. B. i. 
p. 427. 
Prof. Baird has recently described this species. It is, as he 
says, more nearly allied to the bird from the Bahamas, C. 
hahamensisj than to any other of the genus. This is most sin¬ 
gular, for the genus is unrepresented in Cuba; and yet this 
species, from the small island of Cozumel, comes much nearer 
to the Bahama bird than it does to the continental C. mexi- 
cana , a bird common throughout the lowlands of Eastern 
Mexico and Guatemala. Besides the specimen in Dr. Ca¬ 
bot's collection, there is a second in the Museum of the Bos¬ 
ton Society of Natural History, presented by Dr. Cabot. 
Pyranga roseigularis, Cabot. 
Mr. Sclater has recently written an article on this species 
(Ibis, 1873, p. 126, pi. 3). When in the neighbourhood 
of Peten, in 1862,1 hoped to secure specimens of this species, 
but was disappointed, and at present Dr. Cabot's type specimen 
remains unique. 
Chrysotis xantholora. G. It. Gray. 
Though I included this Parrot in my paper on the Psit- 
tacidse of Central America (Ibis, 1871, p. 97) on the faith of 
a specimen in the British Museum said to have been collected 
in Honduras by the late Mr. Dyson, I always feared this 
locality might prove to have been erroneously given to it. I 
was therefore glad to find two specimens in Dr. Cabot's Yu¬ 
catan collection, which leave no doubt as to the true patria of 
this little-known species. Dr. Cabot had not noticed the dif- 
erences between this bird and C. alhifrons , of which he had 
also collected specimens. 
Aramides axillaris, Lawr. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1863, p. 107. 
Dr. Cabot has a specimen of this species which he collected 
at a place called Las Bocas de Silan, situated on the northern 
coast of Yucatan, halfway between Cape Catoche and Sisal. 
Its range still further north is shown in Mr. Lawrence's re¬ 
cently published paper on the birds of Western and North¬ 
western Mexico (Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 311), where it 
