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Genus PLATYPSARIS Sclater. 



riatypsaris Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 72 (ex Bonaparte, 1854, nomen 



nudum). (Type, Pachyrhamphns latiroslris Bonaparte.) 

 iZa(/TOS?o?ni(so Cabanis and Heine, Mus, Hein., ii, Oct., 1859, 84. (Type, Tityra 



atricapiUa Vieillot. ) 



Rather small Cotingidie (wing about 90-105 mm.) with second 

 phalanx of outer toe entirely free from middle toe, planta tarsi quasi- 

 taxaspidean, outermost (tenth) primary equal to or longer than fifth, 

 tall not longer than wing to end of secondaries, and bill much shorter 

 than head and nearly as deep as broad at base, the adult males with- 

 out bright colors except, sometimes, a throat-patch of rose-red or 

 pink. 



Bill much shorter than head, stout, its depth at nostril nearly equal 

 to its width at same point; culmen faintly ridged, nearly straight to 

 near tip, where strongly and rather abruptly decurved, the tip of the 

 maxilla obviously but rather minutel}^ uncinate; gonys much longer 

 than mandibular rami, not at all ridged, faintly convex, its basal 

 angle rather prominent; maxillary tomium nearly straight, distinctly 

 notched subterminally. Nostril exposed, very small, nearly circular, 

 with narrow superior and posterior membrane. Rictal bristles dis- 

 tinct. Wing moderate, the longest primaries exceeding secondaries 

 by length of exposed culmen, or more; sixth, seventh, and eighth 

 primaries longest, the tenth about equal to fifth, the ninth, in adult 

 males, only about half as long as eighth, its tip abruptly contracted 

 and subacuminate. Tail shorter than wing to end of secondaries, 

 chstinctly rounded, the rectrices moderately broad, with rounded tip. 

 Tarsus rather long (decidedly longer than middle toe with claw, about 

 or nearly one-third as long as tail), its scutellation quasi-taxaspidean, 

 the planta tarsi having along each side a single continuous row of 

 rather large subquadrate or lozenge-shaped scutella, the two rows in 

 contact along the posterior edge, but their junction interrupted by 

 occasional small scutella interposed at each point of lateral division; 

 middle toe, with claw, decidedly shorter than tarsus, its basal phalanx 

 wholly, or for much the greater part, adherent to outer toe, nearl}^ as 

 much united to inner toe; hallux nearly as long as inner toe, stouter, 

 its basal pad (tylarus) flattened and slightly expanded, its extended 

 inner edge continuous with that of inner toe. 



Plumage and coloration. — Contour feathers broad and blended : heatl 

 normally feathered, with feathers of pileum (especially those of 

 occipit and hinder crown elongated and distinctly outlined, forming, 

 when erected, a bushy crest. Adult males black, or gray with black 

 pileum, above, the scapulars with much concealed white; under parts 



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