1. OXYRHAMPHUS. 281 



Key to the Species. 



Beneath pale yellowish green, with blackish 

 shaft-spots : 



| plumage duller : tail longer 1. Jlammicejjs, p. 2S1. 



I plumage brighter : tail shorter 2. /rater, p. 281. 



Beneath white, flanks and belly tinged with 



green, with blackish shaft-spots 3. kypoylaucus, p. 282. 



1. Oxyrhainphus flainmiceps. 



Oxyrhvnchus flainmiceps, Temm. PL Col. 125 ; Cab. et Heine, Mus. 



ffein. ii. p. 31 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 1G0. 

 Oxyrhainphus flainmiceps, Gray, List of Gen. (1841), p. 23 ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 211 ; Barm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 33 ; Peheln, Orn. Bras. 



p. 42 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 41. 

 Oxyrhynchus cristatus, Sic. Zool. III. pi. 49. 

 Oxyrhvnchus serratus, Mikan, Del. Flor. et Faun. Bras, (cum fig.). 



Above green, wings and tail blackish brown edged with green ; 

 centre of crown black, with a large median crest, occupying the 

 vertex, of bright fiery red ; superciliaries and sides of head pale 

 greenish, with black spots : beneath pale yellowish, thickly covered 

 with black shaft-spots ; middle of belly and under wing-coverts pale 

 sulphur-yellow ; bill plumbeous ; feet blackish : whole length 6-5 

 inches, wing 3 - 7, tail 2-5. Female similar, but red crest perhaps 

 not quite so bright. 



Hub. S.E. Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Novo Fribourgo, Rio Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Youds). 



b. Ad. st. Brazil. Lord Stuart de Rothesay [P.]. 

 e. Ad. st. Brazil. Eyton Coll. 



d. Ad. st. Brazil. Purchased. 



e,f. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. Brazil. Purchased. 



2. Oxyrhamphus frater. 



Oxyrhamphus frater, Scl. et. Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 326 ; iid. Ex. Orn. 



p. 131, t. 66; iid. Nomencl. p. 41. 

 Oxyrhynchus frater, Salrin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 194 (Veragua). 

 Oxvrhvnchus rlammiceps, Laicr. Ann. L. N. Y. ix. p. 106 (Costa 



Rica"). 



Nearly similar to 0. flammiccps, but brighter ; margins of the 

 secondaries and wing-coverts broader and of a lighter and more 

 yellowish colour ; tail shorter. 



Hub. Costa Rica and Veragua. 



a. J ad. ; b. $ Calovevora, Veragua (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. ; c. 2 jr. sk. 

 d. 5 jr. sk. Castillo, Veragua (Arci). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Types of the species.) 

 e,f. cJ ad. sk. Veragua (Arce). Sclater Coll. 



