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and outer secondaries broadly margined externally with white; 

 outer webs of outer tail-feathers white ; outer edges of primaries and 

 narrow ends of tail-feathers cinereous : beneath white ; under wing- 

 coverts pale yellowish white ; bill and feet black : whole length 5*5 

 inches, wing 2-9, tail 2-5. 



Hab. Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentine Republic, and Bolivia. 



?" ^ d ' J sk i Uru g Uft 7- Alan Peel [C.l. 



b. § ad. sk. Conchitas, Buenos Ayres (Hudson). Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Buenos Ayres. C. Darwin [C.]. 



. . , . _ (Type of Pachyrhamphus albescens, Gould.) 



a. Ad. sk. Buenos Ayres (Burmeister). Sclater Coll. 



e,f. Ad. sk. Buenos Ayres. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



g, h. Ad. sk. Buenos Ayres (?). j. Gould, Esq. 



2. Empidagra brevirostris. 

 Elainea brevirostris, Tsch. Wiegm. Arch. x. Bd. i. p. 274 (1844) • id 



F. P., Aves, p. 159; Tacz. Orn. Per. ii. p. 272; Cab. in Schomb. 



Guiana, lii. p. 701 ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 295. 

 Empidagra brevirostris, Cab. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 59. 



" Above cinereous olive ; cap darker ; wings and tail brown ; 

 lesser wing-coverts brown tipped with white : beneath yellowish \ 

 throat white." (Tschudi.) 



Hab. Eastern Peru and Guiana. 



53. LEGATUS. 



Type. 



Legatus, Sol P. Z. S. 1859, p. 46 L. albicollis. 



In Legatus, a form of much the same general structure as the two 

 preceding genera, we find a rather shorter and much wider bill. 

 This form ranges throughout the Neotropical Region except in the 

 extreme south. 



1. Legatus albicollis. 



Barbichon de Cayenne (£ ), Daub. Pi. Enl. 830. f. 2. 

 Suiriri chorreado sin roxo, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 123. 

 Tyranmis albicollis, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxxv. p. 89 ; id. Enc. Meth 



p. 854. 

 Muscicapa legatus, Licht. Doubt, p. 56. 

 Muscicapa eitrina, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 917. 

 Museipeta albicollis, d'Orb. et Lafr. Syn. Av. i. p. 47; d'Orb. Voy., 



Ois. p. 318. 

 Tyranmis circumcinctus, Sw. Orn. Dr. pi. 50. 

 Tyrannula albicollis, Hartl. Ind. Azar. p. 12. 

 Ela3nea albicollis, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 701 ; Burm. Syst. 



Ueb. ii. p. 473. 

 Legatus albicollis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 46, et 1860, p. 68 ; id. Cat. 

 A. B. p. 218 ; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 60 ; Later. Ami. 

 L. N. Y. vii. p. 472, viii. p. 177, ix. p. 112 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 



