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all the Vera Paz collections have been made, and I now go under 
very favourable circumstances. Three days hence will take me 
to the hacienda of San Geronimo, belonging to an English com- 
pany, and where an English gentleman, whose acquaintance I 
made a short time ago, is staying. He is now going to Coban, 
and has asked me to join him. 
“ Among birds I have lately got several that have pleased me 
much. The Volcan de Euego is a very fruitful locality, and I 
never go there without finding something fresh. I have shot 
this last month twenty-four species of Mniotiltidce , not including 
some which I obtained last year. My Phalaropes are not Phala- 
ropus wilsoniy as I thought at first; but Constancia has a skin of 
that species. There are therefore two Phalaropes which occur 
here.” 
Mr. G. D. Rowley writes from Brighton, as follows:— 
“ For some time past I have been aware of the existence of 
two kinds of Ringed Plover at Shoreham Harbour in this vicinity. 
—a larger and a smaller. This circumstance is so conspicuous as 
to have attracted the attention of fowlers and others shooting; for 
on the wing the difference is very observable. I have now a fine 
stuffed specimen of each kind before me, both killed in the last 
week but one in August, this year, at Shoreham. The larger is 
Charadrius hiaticula; the smaller is no doubt Charadrius minor , 
the Little Ringed Plover. Independently of the marked differ¬ 
ence in size, the black beak, much more slender legs and thighs, 
and general appearance, there is the black spot on the inner web 
of the outer tail-feathers of my small specimen. 
“ I should be curious to know if this British and real Little 
Ringed Plover corresponds with the foreign skins usually sold as 
those of that bird ; l fancy not. Our Charadrius minor (of Shore¬ 
ham) arrives in May, when the young of the other species are 
running about; and, as I strongly suspect, sometimes breeds 
here. The bird is not by any means so uncommon as repre¬ 
sented by Yarrell. Mr. Swaysland, of the Queen's Road, always 
has some on hand. It again appears in autumn, aftci the 
spring migration. 
“ The migration of birds is a wonderful thing—wonderful even 
