2. PRIONIRHTNCHUS. 315 



d. $ ad. sk. Angostura, Costa Rica, Feb. 5 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. Cnrmiol). 



c,f- 6 fid. ; y. 5 Santa Fe, Vera giia (^. ^rce). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



ad. sk. 



h. (^ ad. sk. Panama {J. MvLeannan). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Ad. sk. Panama (/. McLeannan). Sclater CoU. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Panama. Purchased. 



VI. (S ad. sk. Remt'dios, Antioquia ( T. K. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salmon), 



n, 0. Ad. sk. Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



p. Ad. sk. Ecuador. Sclater Coll. 



q, r. Ad. etjuv. sk. Saravacu, Ecuador (C. ^mcA- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ley), 



s. 5 ad. sk. Chayavetas, E. Peru, Aug. 21 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{E. Bartlett). 



t, ti. Imm. sk. Apollo, Bolivia {C.Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. PRIONIRHYNCHUS. 



Type. 

 Crypticus, Sivams. Classif. B. ii. 1S37, p. 338 (nee 



Lafr. 1817) P. platyrhvnchus. 



Prionirliynchus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 265 P. cariuatus. 



Range. From Upper Amazonia through Colombia to Panama as 

 high as Guatemala and British Honduras. 



Key to the Sjjecies. 



a. Head, neck, and throat cinnamon-rufous ; no blue 



on eyebrow and chin platyrhynchus, 



b. Head, neck, and throat green or olive-green, with [p. 315. 



a broad blue eyebrow, as well as a chin-patch 



of blue carinatus, p. 816. 



1. Prionirhynchus platyrhynchus. 



Momotus platyrhynchus, Leadb. Trans. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 92 (1833) ; 

 Jard. 4- Selby, 111. Orn. iii. pi. 106. 



Crypticus platyrhynchus. Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 338 (1837). 



Piionirhvnchus platyrhynchus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 250 ; Scl. Sr 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 18i:4, p! 362 (Panama) ; Sah. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 151 

 (Veragua) ; Scl. 8)- Salv. t. c. p. 279 (Mosquitia) ; Salvin, Ibis, 

 1872, p. 321 (Nicaragua); Scl. 6^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 102 

 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 534 (Antioquia). 



Adult. General colour above grass-green ; wings like the back, 

 the primaries externally blue ; tail-feathers blue, washed with 

 green, the shafts black; all the tail-feathers blackish at the ends, 

 the centre feathers produced into a blue racket, tipped ^\ itli black ; 

 head and neck all round deep cinnamon-rufous ; lores, feathers 

 round the eye, and a streak along the ear-coverts black ; cheeks, 

 sides of face, throat, and breast deep cinnamon-rufous ; the chin 

 emerald-green; on the fore neck a mass of elongated black feathers ; 

 lower breast and abdomen bluish green ; Bides of body and under 

 tail-coverts inclining to grass-green ; under wing-coverts rufescent, 



