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Letters , Extracts from Correspondence , Notices, fyc. 
until the end of December. His last letters (dated Panama, 
Jan. 6th & loth) announced that he purposed leaving by the 
Central American mail of the 18th of that month to join Mr. 
Salvin in Guatemala. 
Mr. Blyth in his last letters (dated Calcutta, Jan. 8th & 21st) 
speaks of an apparently new species of Cassowary ( Casuarius ) in 
the aviary of the Babu Rajendra Mullick of Calcutta: “ It has 
a yellow throat, a single yellow throat-wattle, and a long stripe 
of naked yellow skin down each side of the neck. In its pre¬ 
sent (first) plumage, it is of a much lighter colour than the 
young of the Common Cassowary of the same size, two of which 
are kept along with it; and from the size of the legs, it is easy to 
perceive that when full-grown it is a much smaller species." 
The following extracts are from Mr. Osbert Salvin's last 
letters:— 
“ San Geronimo, Vera Paz, 
Nov. 29th, 1859. 
“ The day before yesterday I arrived here from Coban, having 
spent three weeks there altogether, during the whole of which 
time I was kept hard at work skinning. The whole number of 
skins I obtained reaches to 600, of which I prepared myself 
about 400. They were all shot near the town by the boys with 
their pea-shooters, and so dexterous are some of these young 
rascals, that they would, in one day, sometimes, bring me as 
many as fifty. I paid them at the rate of 1 a piece, but for 
larger birds, according to their size. I cannot now give you an 
exact summary of the collection, but I will just run through 
some of the best. In the first place, I found a man who had, 
among some common things, three Cotingce amabiles , which of 
course I secured. If what they tell me is true, it would appear 
that this species makes a vertical migration, and is found in the 
summits of the hills about Coban during the months of January, 
February, and March \ the other months it spends on the tiena 
caliente/ The skins I have just obtained are from the latter 
locality. Of Humming-birds I obtained sixteen species, one of 
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