5. RHINOCKYl'TA. 3-47 



5. RHINOCRYPTA. 



Type. 



Rhinomya, Is. Geoff r. et d'Orb. Mac/, de Zool. 1832, 



Ois. pi. iii II. lanceolata. 



Rhiuocrypta, Gray, List of Gen. 1841, p. 25 1!. lanceolata. 



This conspicuous form is allied to Fteroptochus, but differs in its 

 shorter bill with much-arched culmen, rather shorter and stronger 

 legs, and in the well-marked divisions of the tarsal scutes. The 

 tail-feathers are twelve in number ; the bind claw is short and 

 curved. 



Rhinocrypta is a characteristic type of the Patagonian Sub- 

 region. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Larger: head crested ; sides of belly chestnut. . 1. laiiceu/ata, f. ?A7. 



B. Smaller : head not crested ; sides of belly 



cinereous 2. fiisca, p. 348. 



1. Rhinocrypta lanceolata. 



Rhinomya lanceolata, 7s. Geoffr. et d'Orb. Mag. de Zool. 1832, Ois. 

 pi. iii. ; d'Orb. l^oy., Ois. p. 194, pi. vii. tig. 1; Darwin, Zool. Voy. 

 ' Beayle^ iii. p. 70. 



Rhinocrvpta lanceolata, Gray, List of Gen. 1841, p. 25; Bj). Consp. 

 i. p. 205 ; Ihirm. J. f. O. 18(30, p. 251 (La Plata) ; id. La Flata- 

 Reise, ii. p. 471 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 543 (I'atagonia) ; id. Ibis, 

 1874, p. 198 (rep. Arg.); 6W. et 8alv. Nomencl. p. 76; White, 

 I'. Z. S. 1882, p. 614 (rep. Arg.) ; gel. et Huds. Ary. Orn. i. 

 p. 206. 



Above olivaceous brown ; head crested, rufescent, feathers with 

 long white shaft-stripes; tail blackish: beneath pale cinereous, 

 breast and middle of belly white ; a large patch each side of the 

 belly clear chestnut ; bill and feet black : whole length 8 inches, 

 wing 3*2, tail 3-2. Female similar. 



Hah. Western La Plata and Northern Patagonia. 



n. (S ad. sk. Rio Negro, Patagonia (Hud- Sclater Coll. 



son). 



b. (S ad. sk. Rio Negro, Patagonia {Hud- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



son). 



c. Ad. sk. Rio Negro. Zool. Soc. CoD. 



d. e. (J 2 ^^- *1^' Meudoza, Arg. Rep. ( Weiss- Sclater Coll. 



liaupt). 



f. Ad. sk. Mendoza, Arg. Rep. {Bur- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



meister). 



g, h. cJ $ ad. sk. Pampas of the Argentine Rep. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Leybold). 



i. c? ad, sk. Cosquiu, Arg. Rep. { White). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/ $ ad. sk. Citv of Catamarca, Arg. Rep. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



'{White), 



k. Ad. sk. Argentine Republic. T. Bridges [C.]. 



/. .\d. sk. Argentine Republic. Purchased. 



