470 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



C[rybelus] marti Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, Nov., 1859, 112, part (Colom- 

 bia). 



Urospatha martii Salvadori, Atti Eoy. Accad. Torino, iv, 1868, 179 (Costa Rica) — 

 BoucARD, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lend., 1878, 49 (San Carlos, Costa Rica; notes, 

 etc.). — ScLATER and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 534 (Remedios 

 and Nichi, Antioquia, Colombia). — Zeledon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 

 1885, 109 (Costa Rica); Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 119 (Naranjo 

 de Cartago and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Brit. 

 Mus., xvii, 1892, 314, part (Chontales, Nicaragua; Angostura, Costa Rica; 

 Veragua, Panama; Remedios, Colombia). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xvi, 1893, 510 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua).— Salvadori and Festa, 

 Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 1900, 18 (Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecua- 

 dor).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 17 (Loma del Leon, 

 Panama).— Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 495 (Caribbean low- 

 lands of Costa Rica, up to 2,000 ft.; habits). 



[Urospatha] martii Sclater and Salvin, Nom.. Av. Neotr., 1873, 102, part. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 76, part. 



Baryphtliengus martii Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 58, 

 July, 1895, 462, part (La Libertad, etc., Nicaragua; San Carlos, etc., Costa 

 Rica; Santa Fe, Santiago de Veragua, Calobre, etc., Panama). 



Momotus semirufus Sclater, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., v, Nov., 1853, 489 (Santa 

 Marta, Colombia, and Rio Javarri; coll. Brit. Mus.); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1855, 136 (Bogota, Colombia); 1857, 254 (monogi-.). — Schlegel, Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, Momoti, 1863, 5 (Bogota). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 

 1864, 363 (Lion Hill, Panama). 



[Baryphonus] semirufus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 317 (Consp. 

 Volucr. Anisod., 1854, 8). 



Urospatha viartii semiruf a B.ARTERT, Novit. Zool., v, 1898, 497 (Chimbo, Paramba, 

 and Cachavi, n. w. Ecuador, 500-3,500 ft.; crit.). 



U[rospatha] vi[artii] semirufa Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xiv, 1907,403, in text (w. 

 Ecuador; Bogota; Costa Rica). 



Genus ELECTRON Gistel. 



Cnjpticus (not of Latreille, 1817) Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 338. (Type 



Momotus platyrhynchus Leadbeater.) 

 Electrona Gistel, Naturgesch. des Thierreichs fiir lioliere Schulen, 1848, p. viii. 



(New name to replace Crypticus "Bonaparte (Vogel a. Brasil), " i. e., Swainson, 



preoccupied.) 

 Prionirhynchus (not of Jacquinot and Lucas, 1854) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1857, 256. (Type, Momotus platyrhynchus Leadbeater.) 

 Prionornis^ Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 57, May, 1895, 



454 and sig. 59*, July, 1895, 467 (ex Sclater, manuscript). (New name to 



replace Prionirhynchus Sclater, preoccupied.) 



Medium-sized Momotidas (length about 300 mm.) with the bill very 

 broad, depressed, decurved, and conspicuously carinate, the sides of 

 maxilla next to the median ridge deeply concave or hollowed out; 

 width of bill at nostrils equal to nearly half the distance from nostril to 

 tip of maxilla ; middle rectrices less than one- third longer than next pair, 

 the webs denuded subterminally for less than length of culmen, some- 

 times not denuded, but merely contracted; no supercihary tufts, and 

 without brightly colored feathers or black patch on throat. 



"-"nXsKTpm, Bomething bright and beaming. (Richmond.) 

 b Upciov, a saw; hpvcg, bird. (Richmond.) 



