. --In a letter published in The Ibis in 1873 (p. 428) Osbert Salvin reported seeing a specimen of Threnetes ruckeri in a collection of birds kept by the Sodedad Economica de Guatemala. On the strength of this statement the country was included in the range of the species in several subsequent works, notably: Salvin, Catalogue o] the Picariae in the collection o] the British Museum, Upupae and Trochili, 1892 (vol. 16, Cat. o] the birds in the British Museum), p. 265; Salvin and Godman, Biologia Centrali- Americana, Aves, vol. 2, 1888-97, p. 316 (1900); Sharpe, A hand-list o] the genera and species of birds, vol. 2, 1900, p. 98; and Ridgway, U.S. Natl. Mus., Bull. 50, pt. 5, 1911 p. 336. Because of the lack of additional records and the chance that the specimen may have been transported into Guatemala as a trade skin, a common procedure in those days, subsequent workers tended to dismiss the record. Cory in 1918 (Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Set., 13 [2]: 151, 1918) included Guatemala with a question mark in the range of this species. In 1924 Bangs and Penard (Occas. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5.' 77, 1924) described Threnetes ruckeri ventosus as the northernmost form of the species (type locality Pozo Azul, Costa Rica), occurring in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Griscom (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 64, 1932) and Peters (Check-list o] birds o/ the world, vol. 5, 1945; see p. 6) make no reference to Guatemala in the range of the species. In the summer of 1961 Lloyd Kiff collected three specimens (now in our possession) of Threnetes ruckeri (two males: original catalogue numbers, ;Fx 9 and c 1409; one female: >c; 1408). The birds were all taken on 17 June in heavy rain forest three miles west of Matias Galvez (Santo Tom'rs), Departmento de Izabal, Guatemala. This locality is in the Caribbean lowlands at 100 feet elevation. Upon comparing these specimens with birds from Costa Rica, and a series from Honduras recently collected by Burt L. Monroe, Jr., we find them to be inseparable from T. r. ventosus Bangs and Penard. This represents the northernmost known occurrence of the species and adds to the likelihood that the specimen seen by Salvin actually did come from Guatemala.-HuG C. LANI), Department o] Biological Sciences, Northwestern State College, Natchitoches, Louisiana, and LoYD F. KrF, Department o] Zoology, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.