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Southern Mexico, in States of Vera (Jruz (Playa Vicente), Oaxaca 

 (Santo Domingo; Guichicovi; Tiixte])e(') and Tabasco (Teapa; San 

 Juan Baiitista) southward through Guatcniahi (Choctuni; Chisec), 

 British Honduras (Orange Walk), Honduras (San Pedro Sula; Ceiba; 

 Yaruca), Nicaragua (Grej^town; Los Sabalos; Rio Escondido), Costa 

 Rica (Rio Frio; Guaitil; Pozo Azul de Pirris), Panama (Panama City; 

 Lion Hill) and Colombia (Cartagena; Bonda; Santa Marta) to Vene- 

 zuela (Maipures; Caicara; El Fraile; Suapure). 



Todirostruni sell inl ace ice ps Sclatbr, Il)is, Oct., 1859, 444 (Uaxaca, Mexico; coll. 

 P. L. Sflatcr); lS(iO, 399 (Choc;tuni, Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Loiul.,. 

 1859, 384 (Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 208, pi. 18, lig. 2 ' 

 (Oaxaca); Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 74 (Oaxaca; Choctum and Chisec, 

 Guatemala; Panama; Bogota). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 399 (Choc- 

 tum). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lcmd., 1864, 358 (Lion Hill, 

 Panama R. R.; crit.).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 473 (Lion Hill, 

 Panama R. R.); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 26 (Guichicovi, Oaxaca). — 

 Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, J883, 402 (Los Sabalos, Nicaragua).— 

 Zeledon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 108 (Costa Rica). — Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Ccntr.-Am., i\.ves, ii, 1888, 13 (Teai^a, Tabasco; Orange Walk, 

 British Honduras; Venezuela, and intermediate localities). — Richmond, 

 '- Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 505 (Rio Escondido and Greytown, Nica- 

 ragua; habits). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 135 (Santa Marta, 

 Colombia). — Berlepscii and Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 37 (Maipures, 

 Caicara, El Fraile, and Suapure, Venezuela). — Thayer and Bangs, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool.. xlvi, 1906, 217 (Sabana de Panama). 



[Todimslriim] schist aceiccps Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 348, no. 5250. — Sclater^ 

 and Salvin, Noni. Av. Neotr., 1873, 45.— Sharpe. Hand-list, iii, 1901, 104. 



Triccus sc}iistaccic( ps Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Heiii. Orn., 1890, 140 

 (Mexico). 



(?) Todirostruni supercilwris Law rence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. X. Y., x, 1874 (pul). 

 Feb. -March, 18711. 9 (Venezuela; coll. G. N. Lawrence^. 



Genus LOPHOTRICCUS Berlepseh. 



Lophotriccusu Berlepscii, Pruc. Zuol. Soc. Lond., 1883 (pub. Apr. 1, 1884), 553. 

 (Type, Todirostruni spidferum Lafresnaye.) 



Very small Tyi-annidae (wing not more than 55 mm.) Avitli a very 

 conspicuous crest of broad, bicolored feathers, and with outermost 

 primaries not abnormally reduced, the eighth equal to or longer than 

 hfth, the otitermost (tenth) at least three-fourths as long as the 

 longest. 



Bill more than half as long as head, moderately depressed, rather 

 narrow, its width at anterior end of nostrils eqiuil to about half the 

 distance from nostril to tip of maxilla and less than twice its depth at 

 same ])oint; exposed culmen slightly shorter than middle toe with 

 claw, about one-fifth as long as wing (L. spicifer) or decidedly less (L. 



" " Ao0oc = huppe; r/j/K'K'oc = ii()in. pro2)re." 

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