31. tTROLEUCA, 137 



a. Ad. sk. Bogota. riirchased. (Type of species.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. V Bogota. Purchased. 

 d,e. Ad. sk, Bogota. Purchased. 



31. UROLEUCA. 



Type. 



Uroleuca, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 225 {ex i?/>. Consp. 



i. p. 379, descr. nulLx, tvpo haud indicato) U. cyanoleuca. 



Argurocitta, Heine, J.f. 0. 1860, p. 117 U. cyanoleuca. 



Head of Uroleuca cyanoleuca. 

 Range. Confined to Brazil. 



1. Uroleuca cyanoleuca. 



Corvus cyanoleucus, Max. Reis. Bras. ii. p. 190. 



Corvus ti'icolor, Mikan, Del. Faun. Bras. pi. 16 {ex Natt. MS.). 



Corvus splendidus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 21. 



Corvus cristatellus, Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 193 ; Max. Beitr. Naturg. 



Bras. iii. p. 1251. 

 Pica cristatella, Wagler, Si/st. Av. Pica, sp. 26. 

 Cyanurus cristatelhis, Stvains. Faun. Bor.-Amer. Birds, p. 495. 

 Cvanocorax cvanoleucus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 307 ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. 

 "Coraces, p. 50 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 189, 430 ; Scl. ^- Salu. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 39. 

 Uroleuca cyanoleuca, Bp. Consp. i. p. 379 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. 



p. 225. 

 Uroleuca cristatella. Burin. Th. Bras. ii. p. 286. 

 Argurocitta cyanoleuca, Heine, J. f. O. 1860, p. 117. 

 Cyanurus cyanoleucus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 6. 



Adult male. Head and neck all round brown ; frontal plumes 

 (which are developed into a long recurved crest), lores, feathers 

 round the eye and cheeks, blacker ; mantle and back violet-brown, 

 deepening into rich violet on the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts ; wing-coverts deep violet, as also the quills on their outer 

 webs, the inner webs blackish brown, the inner secondaries entirely 

 violet like the wing-coverts, the primaries externally edged with 

 dull cobalt ; tail deep violet for the basal half, the apical half pure 

 white ; under surface of body from the fore neck downwards creamy 

 white, the lower feathers of the fore neck brown terminally, edged 



