TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 291 



171139. Adult male. Los Palmales (elev. 450 meters), State of Monagas, 

 Venezuela. December 7, 1898. Collected by Frederick W. Urich. 

 Original number 48. 



Genus PLATYRINCHUS Desmarest 



Platyrhynchus insularis J. A. Allen 



Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 2(3): 143, June 28, 1889. 



=Platyrinchus mystaceus insularis (J. A. Allen). See HeUmayr, Cata- 

 logue of birds of the Americas 5 : 266, 267, 1927. 



74845, Adult male. Belmont, Tobago Island, Caribbean Sea. April 17, 

 1878. Collected by Frederick A. Ober. Original number 17. 



74843. Adult female. Tobago Island, Caribbean Sea. May 1878. Col- 

 lected by Frederick A. Ober. Original number 240. 

 Platyrhynchus cancroniinus P. L. Sclater and Salvin 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 28 (2) : 299, August 1860. 



=Platyrinchus cancro minus (P. L. Sclater and Salvin). See Hellmayr, 

 Catalogue of birds of the Americas 5 : 269, 1927. 



20456. Adult (sex not indicated). Choctum, Department of Alta Vera 

 Paz, Guatemala. January 1860. Collected by Osbert Salvin. Original 

 number 2072. Received from Osbert Salvin. 



30819. Adult (sex not indicated). Choctum, Department of Alta Vera 

 Paz, Guatemala. January 1860. Collected by Osbert Salvin. Original 

 number 1191. Received from Osbert Salvin and Frederick du C. 

 Godman. 



The number of cotypes was not stated by Sclater and Salvin; it is probable 

 that some, if not all, of the four specimens from Alta Vera Paz listed in the 

 Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum 14: 66, 1888, fall into this category. 



Genus TOLMOMYIAS Hellmayr 

 Rhynchocyclus scotius Oberholser 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 25: 63, August 30, 1902. 

 =Tolmomyias sulphurescens sulphurescens (von Spix) . See Hellmayr, 



Catalogue of birds of the Americas 5: 273 (footnote b), 1927. 

 59181. Adult (sex not indicated). "Brazil." Entered into the museum 

 register in February 1870. Received from Philip L. Sclater, in whose 

 private collection it was No. 1353. 



Genus RHYNCHOCYCLUS Cabanis and Heine 



Rhynchocyclus griselmentalis Lawrence 



Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York 9 (1-4) : 112, April 1868. 



=Rhynchocyclus brevirostris brevirostris (Cabanis). See Hellmayr, 

 Catalogue of birds of the Americas 5 : 291, 1927. 



47502 (not 47501). Adult female. Santa Maria de Dota, Province of 

 Cartago, Costa Rica. February 27, 1867. Collected by Julian Carmiol. 



