874 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Tityra personata (not of Jarclme and Selby) Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 ii, J874, 289 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Sierra Madre, Colima; habits). 



Tityra semifasciata (not Fachyrhynchus scmifasciatus Spix) Sclater, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 330, part (Presidio de Mazatlan, Sinaloa). — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1890, 118, part (Presidio de Mazatlan; 

 Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). 



Tityra personata griseiceps Ridgway, Auk, v, July, 1888, 263 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Miller (W. D.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 

 355 (Mount Juan Lisiarraga, Sinaloa; fresh colors of unfeathered parts). 



[Tityra] (jriseiceps Sharps, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 161. 



Genus QUERULA Vieillot. 



Qiicrula Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 37. (Type, Muscirapa ri(bricollis Gmelin, 



= Muscicapa purpurata Miiller.) 

 Threnoedus Gloger, Hand-u. Hilfsb. Nat., 1842, 319. (New name for Qumila.) 



Large Cotingidse (wing about 1 65-190 mm.) of uniform black 

 color (the adult male with a large wine-red or dull crimson throat- 

 patch), the head normally feathered, the bill broad and depressed 

 basally. 



Bill much shorter than head (exposed culmen shorter than tar- 

 sus), rather broadl}^ triangular in vertical profile, its lateral outlines 

 faintly convex to near tip, where rather suddenly contracted ; culmen 

 forming a fairly well-defined ridge, straight or nearly so for basal 

 half, strongly decurved terminall}^, the tip of maxilla moderately 

 uncinate; gonys .famtly convex, slightly longer than mandibular 

 rami, the interramal space about equal in length and basal width; 

 width of bill at nostrils about equal to length of mandibular rami, 

 much greater than its depth at same point; maxillary tomium 

 nearh^ straight, distmctly notched subterminally. Nostril partly 

 concealed by antrorse latero-frontal bristly plumules, rather small, 

 longitudinally oval, margined above and behind by broad membrane. 

 Rictal bristles distinct, strongly recurved. Wing long and broad, 

 with longest primaries exceeding secondaries by more than length 

 of tarsus; sixth to eighth primaries longest, the tenth about equal 

 to second. Tail about two-thirds as long as wing, even or slightly 

 rounded, the rectrices broad, with rounded tip. Tarsus longer than 

 exposed culmen, its scutellation typically pj^cnaspidean; middle toe, 

 with claw, decidedly longer than tarsus, its basal phalanx adherent 

 for greater part to outer toe, for about half its length to mner toe; 

 outer toe reaching nearly to end of subterminal phalanx of middle 

 toe, the inner to about its middle; hallux decidedly shorter than 

 inner toe, but much stouter, its basal patl (tylarus) broad and flat- 

 tened, with its extruded inner edge co]itinuous with that of inner 

 toe; claws rather large, strongly curved, compressed. 



Plumage and coloration. — Contour feathers in general normal 

 (rather broad and blended), the male, however, with . feathers of 



