4. PKIOXOTELUS. 4;JS) 



and sometimes also on the fourth: bill pale yellow; feet Hesh. 

 Total length 11-5 inches, wing 5-6, tail &4, tarsus 0'7. 

 Hub. San Domingo. 



a, 6. c? 2 ad. sk. San Dumiugo (Salle). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



c, d. J 2 ad. sk. San Domingo (Salle). Gould Coll. 



e,f. (5 5 ad. sk. San Domingo. A. Sall(5 [C]. 



y, h. cS $ ad. St. Sau Domingo. A. Salle |_C.J. 



4. PRIONOTELUS. 



Type. 

 Temnurus (nee Less. 1831), Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 337 



(1837) P. albicollis. 



Priotelus, Graij, List Gen. B. p. 10 (1840) V. temnurus. 



Prionotelus, Reich. Av. Syst. Nat. pi. 88 (1850) P. temnurus. 



Sexes entirely similar. Centre pair of tail-feathers bronzy green, 

 shading into purplish blue at the tip, second and third pairs pur])lish 

 green ; all the feathers deeply excised. Infraloral space and sides 

 of the face feathered ; the ear-coverts produced into long hair-like 

 filaments. Upper tail-coverts normally developed. Edge of upper 

 mandible toothed behind the subterminal notch. 



Rcuifje. Cuba. 



1. Prionotelus temmirus. 



Trogon temnurus, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 326 (1825) ; Vic/. Zool. 



Joum. iii. p. 443 (1827); Less. Traite d'Or7i. p. 120 (1831); 



Gould, Mon. Trogon, ed. i. pi. 19 [text] (1838) ; IS Orb. in Ramon 



de la Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, iii. p. 165, Atlas, pi. xxvi. (1840) ; 



Gtindl. J. Bost. Soc. N. H. vi. p. 319 (1857). 

 Priotelus temnurus, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 10 (1840) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 70 (1845); Bonajh C'ons^}. Av. i. p. 150(1850); Gundl. J. 



f. O. 1856, p. 106 ; Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. vii. p. 307 (1860) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 83 (1869) ; Gundl. Rep. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 



i. p. 298 (1866) ; id. J. f. O. 1874, p. 165; Cory, B. West Ind. 



p. 155 (1889). 

 Priouotelus temnurus, Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 164 



(1863). 

 Pi-ionteles temnurus, Sclat. Sf Salu. Nom. Av. Neofr. p. 103 (1873). 

 PrioDoteles temnurus, Cory, List B. W. I. p. 18 (1885). 

 Temnurus albicollis, Sivains. Class. B. ii. p. 337 (1837). 

 Trogon (Temnurus) albicollis, Gould, Mon. Trogon. ed. i. list of 



Plates, sp. 19 (1838). 

 "Temnurus silens, Herz. Wiirttemb.," Hartl. in Naumanyiia, ii. p. 51 



(1852). 



Adult male. Lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts black, the latter 

 produced into hair-like filaments ; top of the head and nape black, 

 glossed with dark greenish blue and purple ; back, lesser and 

 median wing-coverts bronze-green, shading into dark green on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; chin, throat, and breast pale grey, 

 palest on the chin and lower breast, shafts of chin-feathers black 

 and bristle-like ; belly and under tad-coverts blood-red ; thighs 



