136 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Genus RHINORTHA Vigors 



Anadaenus ruficauda Peale i^ 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Om.) : 142, "pi. xxxix, fig. 

 2," 1848. 

 =Rhinortha chlorophaea chlorophaea (Raffles). See Chasen, Handlist 



of Malaysian birds, p. 132, 1935. 

 14048. Adult female (not male). Singapore Island, Malaya. Original 



number 403. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 

 14050. Adult female (not male). Same data as No. 14048. 

 Peale referred to "specimens," and Cassin's MS. list indicates that he saw 

 three, a number that agrees with the entries in the museum register. No. 

 14045 is now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (where it is No, 

 75755). 



Peale did not understand the plumages of this dimorphic species. Mis- 

 taking the males for females, he correctly placed them under the name 

 chlorophaea; the females, believed to be males, he described as a new species, 

 with the reservation that they might prove to be the old male of chlorophaea. 

 Cassin properly synonymized ruficauda with chlorophaea, but his MS. notes 

 show that he also attributed each style of plumage to the wrong sex. As a 

 result, the old exhibition labels still attached to the specimens say "Male?" 

 in the case of females, and "Female?" in the case of males. 

 Rhinortha chlorophaea facta Ripley 

 Auk 59 (4): 575, October 10, 1942. 

 179678. Adult male. Tana Massa Island, Barussan Islands, eastern 

 Indian Ocean ojff Sumatra. February 20, 1903. Collected by William 

 L. Abbott. 



Genus RHAMPHOCOCCYX Cabanis and Heine 



Rhamphococcyx centralis Riley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 31: 156, December 30, 1918. 

 =Rhamphococcyx calyorhynchus centralis Riley. See Stresemann, Journ. 

 fur Orn. 88:459-460, 1940; Peters, Checklist of birds of the world 

 4:55, 1940. 

 250806. Adult male. Rano Lindu, near the Lindu Lake, central Celebes. 

 March 21, 1917. Collected by Harry C. Raven. Original number 

 3989. 



Genus MOROCOCCYX Sclater 



Morococcyx erythropygus mexicanus Ridgway 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 28: 105, May 27, 1915. 

 29235. Adult male. Juchitan, State of Oaxaca, Mexico. March 1862. 

 Collected by Adrien L. F. Sumichrast. Original number 24. 



