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Messrs. Sclater and Salvin on the 
dart into a liole, or rather crack in the rock, about twenty feet 
from the ground; the noise then was louder than ever. Not 
altogether understanding this, I crossed the river and walked up 
to the foot of the cliff, and began to throw stones at the hole, to 
make the Swifts, which I had seen enter, fly out. Stones were no 
good, so I tried shouts, but with no better success. I then fired 
my gun at the hole, but still without result, the noise within con- 
tinuing as loud as ever all the time. My last resource was to 
climb up as far as I could, and try and poke them out with a 
bamboo-cane that happened to be lying at my feet. When I 
had climbed up a little way, what should I see but a dead 
Swift, which had fallen through the crack, and been caught on 
the ledge where I found it ? It had evidently been killed by my 
random shot. When I had descended, I tired again, this time 
frightening out five or six birds, but not, as I thought, killing 
any. As soon as these five or six got clear of the rock, they 
were pursued by all the “ Cotyla serripennes” of which there 
were a great number in the valley. As I was ivafching their 
flight, down fell a Swift at my feet. I then loaded, and was 
about to leave the spot, when a third made its appearance, falling 
down the crack. I again climbed up to where 1 had found the 
first, both to see if there were any more, and to examine more 
closely. Then I found a good many feathers, some pieces of dry 
grass, and a skeleton of a Swift. This was evidently their 
common roosting-place, and there were others similar in the 
same rock ; how many inhabited the same hole I cannot say, for 
after I had shot three, and five or six were flying about, the noise 
continued as loud as ever.” (O. S.) 
Pam. III. TROCHILIDflE. 
\f 176. Phaethornis cephalus (Bourc. et Muls.), Rev. Zool. 
1848, p. 269; Gould, Mon. Troch. part xvi. 
Transmitted by Mr. Skinner. 
^ 177. Phaethornis adolphi (Bourc.); Gould, Mon. Troch. 
part xiv. 
This is an abundant species in the forest about Izabal, but the 
density of the undergrowth renders it extremely difficult to 
