60. MYIODYNASTES. 187 



Tacz.JP Z. S. 1877, pp. 326, 753, et 1880, p. 203 : id. Orn. Per. 

 ii. p. 291 ; Tacz. et Bert. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 122. 

 Myiodynastes bairdi, Sah. Ibis, 1874, p. 324 : Bed. et Tacz. P. Z. S. 

 1883, p. 556. 



Above cinereous brown ; head with a bright lemon-yellow vertical 

 crest ; front and lores black ; sides of head behind the eyes blackish ; 

 wings blackish ; outer webs of primaries and inner secondaries bright 

 rufous, forming a large rufous patch ; lesser wing-eoverts and outer 

 secondaries margined with buffy white ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 bright ferruginous ; tail bright rufous, lateral feathers with the 

 shafts and an elongated spot increasing in breadth towards the 

 apex blackish ; two middle tail-feathers blackish, margined with 

 pale rufous : beneath pale sulphur-yellow ; throat greyish white ; 

 under wing-coverts yellow like the belly ; bill and feet black : whole 

 length 8 inches, wing 4-6, tail 3-8. 



Hab. Western Ecuador and Peru. 



a. Ad. sk. Tumbez, Peru (Jelski). Sclater Coll. 



6. d" ad.sk. San Pedro, Peru (Orion). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Guayaquil. Sclater Coll. (Type 

 , . , , of M. atrifrims.) 



VT , Gu <iyaquil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e Ad. sk. Guayaquil. G. Barclay rp.l 



/. Ad. sk. Guayaquil. Capt.Kellett& Lieut. 



, . , . Wood [P.]. 



g, A. Ad. sk. Balzar Mts., Ecuador {IUingworth). Salvin-Godman Coll 



i. Ad. st. Guayaquil. G. Barclay [P.]. 



6. Myiodynastes chrysocephalus. 



Scaphorhynchus chrysocephalus, Tseh. Wiegm. Arch. 1844, pt. i. p. 12 • 

 id. Faun. Per., Aves, p. 150, pi. 8. f. 1 ; Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 5. 



Pitangus chrysocephalus, Scl P. Z. S. 1855, p. 150 (Boo-ota). 



Myiodynastes chrysocephalus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 43,° 143, et 18G0 

 pp. 63, 92 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 223 ; Cab. J. f. O. 1861, p. 246 : Scl. 

 et Sah. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 781, 1875, p. 237, 1876, p. 16, et 1879, 

 p. 514 ; ltd. Nomend. p. 50 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 537, et 1882, 

 p. 21 ; id. Orn. Per. ii. p. 293 ; Bed. et Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, 

 p. 296. 



Megarhvnchus chrysocephalus, Hein. Journ. f. Orn. 1859, p. 345 • 

 Cab. et Hein. Mm. Hein. ii. p. 65. 



Myiodynastes chrysocephalus minor, Tacz. et Bed, P. Z. S. 1885 

 p. 91. 



Above cinereous ; back tinged with olive ; head blackish, with a 

 large vertical crest of bright yellow ; lores and sides of head black ; 

 slight superciliaries and line below the eye white ; wings and tail 

 blackish brown, slightly edged with rufous : beneath, throat white ; 

 abdomen pale yellow, slightly striated with cinereous ; under wing- 

 coverts pale yellow ; inner margins of wing- and tail-feathers pale 

 rufous ; bill black, base of the lower mandible whitish ; feet 

 blackish: whole length 7'5 inches, wing 4-1, tail 3-3. Female 



