344 COTINGIDJE. 



Psaris niger, Sw. Zool. Journ. ii. p. 356 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 181. 

 Batlinridurus niger, Cab. Wiegm. Arch. 1847, pt. i. p. 243; id. in 



Schomb. Guian. hi. p. G98. 

 Pachyrhamphus nigriventris, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 76. 

 Zetetes niger, Cab. et Hem. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 87. 



Above sooty black, feathers of the crown shining black ; wings 

 and tail dull black : both rows of wing-coverts edged with white, 

 forming two transverse bands ; broad tips of outer tail-feathers 

 white : beneath sooty black, in some specimens with a cinereous 

 tinge ; bill and feet dark plumbeous : whole length 5*8 inches, 

 wing 3, tail 2*3. Female. Above greenish, with a cinnamomeous 

 tinge on the back ; wings blackish, edged with cinnamomeous ; tail 

 blackish, all the lateral rectrices broadly ended with clear cinna- 

 momeous : beneath pale yellowish green, bend or the wing and 

 inner margins of wing-feathers cinnamomeous. 



Bab. Amazonia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Guiana. 



Spix gives no precise locality for his P. niger ; but we may con- 

 jecture that his specimens were from Upper Amazonia. My descrip- 

 tions are from a pair obtained at Pebas, by Hauxwell, the male of 

 which is quite as black below as is represented in Spix's figure. 

 Venezuelan and Guianan specimens are rather more cinereous on 

 the belly, and betray a transition towards the next species. 



a. Ad. st. South America. Purchased. 



b. (5" ad, sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



c. 3 ad. sk. Bogota. Purchased. 



d. e. S a d. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. 2 ad.sk. Valencia, Venezuela (Goering). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 g. 3 ad. sk. Trinidad. Sclater Coll. 



h. $ ad. sk. Trinidad. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i,j. (J ad.sk. Roraima, Brit. Guiana (Wkitely). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k,l. 3 2 a( h sk. Brit. Guiana. Sclater Coll. 



m. 3 ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



ii. 3 ad. sk. Para. P. Graham, Esq. [P.]. 



o,}). d 2ad.sk. Pebas, Peru (Hauxwell). Sclater Coll. 



q. c? ad. sk. Pebas, Peru (Hauxwell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



r. 3 ad. sk. Nauta, Amazons (Hauxwell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



s. 3 ad. sk. Bio Napo, Ecuador. Sclater Coll. 



t, u. 3 ad. et S Bio Napo, Ecuador. J. Gould, Esq. 



jr. sk. 



v, w. $ ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



10. Pachyrhamphus cinereiventris. 



Pachvrhamphus cinereiventris, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 242 ; Scl. et Salv. 

 P. Z. S. 1864, p. 361 (Panama), 1879, p. 518 (Antioquia) ; Zaun: 

 Ann. Luc. V. Y. ix. p. 116 (CostaBica); Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 149, 

 et 1870, p. 199 (Veragua) ; Frantz. J. f. O. 1869, p. 309 (Costa 

 Pica) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 65 (Costa Rica) ; Eidgw. P. U.S. 

 N. M. vi. p. 385 (Nicaragua). 



Pachyrhamphus dorsalis, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 243. 



Above black ; feathers of head with shining steel-bluish shaft- 

 spots ; rump cinereous ; wings black, edged with white ; tail black, 



