102 TYKANNID.E. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Head subcrested, with a white vertical spot. 



a. Wings banded with white. 

 a'. Crown grey. 



Smaller : white edgings of wings nar- 

 rower 1. subcristata, p. 102. 



Larger: white edgings of wings broader 2. albogrisea, p. 103. 

 b'. Crown black 3. cinerea, p. 103. 



b. Wings not banded. 



j Belly white 4. hypoleuca, p. 104. 



) Belly cinereous 5. nigricans, p. 104. 



B. Head uniform with back ; no vertical spot. 



\ Body below yellow 6. sub/lava, p. 105. 



I Body below grey 7. parvirostris, p. 105. 



1. Serphophaga subcristata. 



Contramaestre copatillo ordinario, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 66. 



Sylvia subcristata, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xi. p. 229 ; id. Enc. Meth. 

 p. 443. 



Helinaea subcristata, Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 11. 



Muscicapa straminea, Temm. PI. Col. 167. fig. 2. 



Muscicapa cristata, Lafr. et d'0?-b. Syn. Av. i. p. 52. 



Muscicapara subcristata, d'Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 326. 



Serpophaga albocoronata, Gould, in Zool. Voy. ' Beagle,' iii. p. 49. 



Muscicapa incompta, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 



Euscarthmus albicoronatus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 184. 



Serpophaga subcristata, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 53 ; Scl. Cat. 

 A. B. p. 211 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 103 ; Burm. La-Plata Reise, 

 ii. p. 454 ; id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 2 ; Scl. et Sale. P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 142, 

 175, et 1879, p. 613 ; iid. Nomencl. p. 47 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 608; Dumford, Ms, 1876, p. 159, et 1877, p. 177; Forbes, 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 342 ; Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. CI. viii. p. 199 (En- 

 trerios) ; Berl. et Jher. Zeitsch. Orn. 1885, p. 130 (Bio Grande do 

 Sul) ; Scl. et Huds. Arg. Orn. i. p. 140. 



Anseretes cristatellus, Salvad. Att. Sc. It. vii. p. 153. 



Serphophaga verticata, Burm. J.f. O. 1860, p. 246. 



Above cinereous, usually with a slight olivaceous tinge on the 

 rump ; crest-feathers white at their bases, tipped with cinereous and 

 slightly varied with black ; wings blackish ; wing-coverts tipped 

 with whitish, forming two transverse bands ; outer secondaries 

 externally margined with the same colour ; tail dark ashy : beneath 

 ashy white, with more or less yellowish tinge on the belly and under 

 wing- coverts ; bill dark horn-colour ; feet black : whole length 4*5 

 inches, wing 2, tail 2-1. Female similar. 



Hob. S.E. Brazil, Paraguay, Northern La Plata, and Bolivia. 



The specimens from Cordova and Bolivia are more greyish above 

 and pure white below, and may be ultimately separable. 



a. S «id. sk. Lagoa Santa, S.E. Brazil {Lund). Sclater Coll. 



b. $ ad. sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Joyner). 



c. d. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater ColL 



