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which I take to be new : it is a Petasophora; its general colour 
is brownish, and it has a gular stripe running down the throat 
of faint blue and green; the ears are blue*. I have also obtained 
some good specimens of Lophornis Helena, which pleased me 
much; the rest are common. I enclose a comparative list of 
the Humming-birds of Dueiias and Coban: when I have time, 
I mean to make out a similar list of the birds of the two places 
as complete as I can. 
“ A specimen of a Penelope, which was brought to me, appears 
to answer well with P, niger *, it is not at all rare in the moun¬ 
tains. An Ortalida is also found there. A female Euphonia goulii, 
a fine specimen of Botaurus lentiginosus, a female Ggparchuspapa , 
and several others which I do not know, form the best part of my 
collection. One of the very commonest birds about the town is 
Elainia vilissima. I also obtained three specimens of E. placens. 
I think, too, you will be rather pleased w r ith the Mniotiltida and 
Vireones ; but I hardly know with what amount of satisfaction 
you will receive the intelligence that I have certainly three, per¬ 
haps four, species of Caprimulgidae . At Coban the coast-species 
and those of the cold country are much mingled, aud I think 
that after a very careful scrutiny the number of species exclu¬ 
sively belonging to one or the other will prove small in com¬ 
parison. I wish you would look very carefully at a specimen 
marked in my collection Trogon puellit from the Pacific Coast 
region. I cannot help feeling sure that it is not the same as 
the bird found in the mountains of Coban, which, as I am as¬ 
sured, is exclusively a bird of the cold region. The species of 
Coban has a black ring round the eye; Pharomacrus paradiseus 
has the same j so I am told by a man w T ho has shot many. I 
should also like to know what is the colouring of the chin and 
lower parts of Pteroglossus torquatns, as I have a skin from the 
Rio Polocliic which I fancy is different. I have set two men to 
work to collect for me in the coast-country, north of Coban, 
and I have great expectations that they will work well for me, 
I have made arrangements to return to Coban in January, when 
I hope to shoot some Quesals myself; the bad weather and the 
quantity of work the small boys gave me to do prevented me 
* It is Petasophora delphince .— Ed. 
