192 TYKANNmE. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Bill broadened at the base and not so long. 



) Breast transversely striated 1. regia, p. 192. 



| Breast not striated 2. sivainsoni, p. 192. 



B. Bill much elongated and narrower at the base. 



I Back dark, olivaceous 3. mexicana, p. 193. 



J Back lighter, rufous 4. occidentalis, p. 194. 



1. Muscivora regia. 



Tyran hupe" de Cayenne, Daub. PL Enl. 289. 



Todus regius, Gm. S. N. i. p. 445. 



Platyrhynchus regius, View,. Enc. Meth. p. 843. 



Megalophus regiu3, Bp. Consp. i. p. 183. 



Muscivora regia, Gray, List Gen. i?."p. 42 (1841) ; Pelzeln, Sitz. Akad. 



Wiss. Wien, xxxi. p. 32G; id. Orn. Bras. p. 112 (Rio Brancho) ; 



Cab. et Hein. Mm. Hein. ii. p. 65 ; Scl P. Z. S. 1859, p. 45 ; id. Cat. 



A. B. p. 224 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 50 ; Layard, Ibis, 1873, 



p. 383 (Para) ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 297 (Brit. Guiana). 

 Onychorhynchus castelnaudi, Dev. R. Z. 1849, p. 56. 

 Megalophus castelnaudi, Dcs Murs, Zool. Voy. Casteln. et Deville, Ois. 



p. 55. 

 Muscivora castelnaudi, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 981 (Amazonia), 



et 1873, p. 280 (E. Peru) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 50 ; Tacz. Orn. Per. 



ii. p. 295. 



Above dark olivaceous brown ; elongated and expanded vertical 

 crest scarlet, tipped with sbining purple ; wings dark cinereous ; 

 tips of wing-coverts and outer secondaries with slight edgings of 

 light brown ; band across the rump light buff ; tail dark ferruginous 

 brown, lighter at the base : beneath pale ochraceous ; throat lighter ; 

 breast and flanks more or less transversely barred with ashy brown ; 

 under wing-coverts pale ochraceous ; bill dark brown, pale at the 

 base of the lower mandible ; feet pale yellowish brown : whole 

 length 5*6 inches, wing 3'1, tail 2-4. Female similar, but crest 

 smaller and yellowish. 



Hab. Guiana, Cayenne, and Amazonia. 



a, b. S ad. sk. Camacusa ,British Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Whitely). 



c. Ad. sk. Oyapoc, Cayenne. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. <$ ad. sk. Cayenne. J. Goidd, Esq. 



e. <$ ad. sk. Cayenne. Purchased. 

 /. (J ad. sk. Pebas, Peru (Hauxtcell). Sclater Coll. 



g. $ ad. sk. Ckamicuros, E. Peru. E. Bartlett [C.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Para {Layard). Tweeddale Coll. 



2. Muscivora swainsoni. 



Muscipeta regia, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 944 ; d'Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 317. 



Megalophus regius, Sio. Nat. Libr., Flycatch. p. 145, pi. 15 ; id. Orn. 

 Dr. pis. 51, 52 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 504. 



Muscivora regia, Burm. Joum. f. Orn. 1853, p. 165. 



Muscivora swainsonii, Pelzeln, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xxxi. p. 326 ; 

 Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 65 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 224 ; Scl. et 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 615 (Bolivia) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 50. 



