538 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. [Yol.Y. 



Pteroptochidae. 



1832. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Isid. Rhinomie. Rhinoinya. Is. Geoff. < Qiter. Mag. 

 de ZooL, 2'= s^r., aun^e 183"2, classe ii, Oiseaiax, notice iii, pi. iii. 

 Rhinomya Imiceolata d'Orb. et Isid. Geofifr., gen. sp. n. 



1836. Gould, J. [Scytalopus (g. n.) fiiscus, S. albogiilaris, spp. nu.] <^P. Z. S., 



Aug. 9, 1836, pp. 89, 90. 



The genus and species are established in an untitled paper, ■which also describes certain 

 Troglodytidce. 



1837. Gould, J. [On Scytalopus.] <^Lond. and Edinb. Philos. Journ., s, 1837, p. 295. 



Fi-om P. Z. S.. Aug. 9, 1836, pp. 89, 90, q. v. 



1838. Gould, J. [Ueber die Gattung Scytalopus.] < Okeii's Isis, Bd. xxxi, 1838, pp. 



199, 200. 

 Aus den P. Z. S., 1836, pp. 89, 90, q. v. 



1841. Lesson, R. P. Revision des Especes d'Oiseaux du Genre Megalouyx. <^ Aetes 



Sot: Linn, de Bordeaux, xii, 1841, pp. 187-197. 

 Pas vu nioi-meme : Ic litre tir6 de la Bibl. de Carus & Engel. 



1842. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Isid. [Rhinomya lanceolata.] <OAeH'.s /isi's, Bd. xxxv, 



1842, p. 51. 

 Aus Guer. Mag. de ZooL, Bd. ii, 1832. 



1844. Lafresnaye, [F.] de. G. Merulaxis. Lesson. (Fam. Formica rid*. — S.-Fam. 

 Rliiuouiina'. ) <^(hier. Mag. de ZooL, 2^ s6r., auni^e 1844, Oiseanx, pi>. 1-6, 

 pi. 53. 

 PI. 53, llcndaxis orthonyx Lafr.. R. Z., 1843, p. 131. 

 1851. [Jardixe, W.] Scytalopus, Gould, 1836. <^J(t)d. Conirih. Oni.. 1851, pji. 115- 

 118, pll. Ixxvi-lxxviii. 



Descriptions of, and remarks on, 4 spp. PI. Ixxvi. 1'. 1. S. undnlatvs ; f. "2. A', cdhiventris. 

 PI. Ixxvii, S. fuscug. PI. Ixxviii, S. albognlaris. 



1851. Lafresnaye, [F.] de. Ob.servatious on the Genus Scytalojmjs. <^Jard. Con- 



trib. Orn., 1851, pp. 145-1.50. 

 17 spp., referred to the genus Merulaxis Less. M. /iiscoides, p. 149. sp. n. 

 1857. L.'VNDBECK. L. Pteroptochos albifions n. s]*. < .l;v7i. /. Xnfitrg.. 18.57, (1), pp. 



273-275. 



1864. Philippi. R. A., and Landbeck, L. [Pteroptochus castaneus. .sp. n.] <^Anal. 



Univ. Chile, xxv., Sept., 1864, p. 408. 

 A separate sub-liead of a paper of much more extended scope. 



1865. Philippi, R. A., and Landbeck, L. [Pteroptochos castaneus. ] <^A)-ch.f. Na- 



turg., 1861, (1), p. 56. 



A separate sub-head of a paper of iiiiicli n\ore extended scope. The oiig. descr. is in Anal. 

 Univ. Chile, xxv. 1864, p. 408. 

 1874. SCLATER, P. L. On the Neotroyiical Species of the Family Ptero]rtochidfe. 

 < Ibis, 3d ser., iv, 1874, pp. 189-206, pi. viii. 



History of the group in brief; systematic, synonymatic, diagnostic synopsis, with com- 

 ment, of 19 spp., referred to 8 genera ; tabular vie^v of their distribution. The pi. reprosenta 

 Rhinocryptafulva. 



