408 PHYTOTOMrD-E. 



Above cinereous, with obsolete blackish shaft-spots ; crown red ; 

 wings and tail black ; a broad band across the ends of the lesser wing- 

 coverts, slight outer margins of the greater coverts and secondaries, 

 and tips of all the rectrices white : beneath bright red, flanks grey ; 

 bill brown : feet black : whole length 6-5 inches, wing 3'3, tail 3. 

 Female. Above greyish white, densely covered with black striatums : 

 beneath white, with less numerous black striations ; wings and tail 

 as in male. 



Hab. Argentine Republic down to Rio Negro, Patagonia. 



a. c? ad. st. Mendoza. Purchased. 



b, c. S ad. ; d. Cosquin, Cordova ( White). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 $ ad. sk. 



e,/. (J § ad. sk. Mendoza ( Weisshaupt). Sclater Coll. 



g, h. 3 $ a d- sk. Pampas of Arg. Republic {Ley- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



bold). 

 hJ- <S ? ad. sk. Parana (Burmeister). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. <$ jr. sk. Parana (Burmeister). Sclater Coll. 



I, m. c? $ ad.sk. Vic. of Buenos Ayres (Hash- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



hust). 

 n, o. $ 5 ad. sk. Rio Negro of Patagonia (Hud- Sclater Coll. 



son). 

 P> 1- <S j r - ; ,- - Pi° Negro of Patagonia. Purchased. 



$ ad. sk. 



4. Phytotoma raimondii. 



Phytotoma raimondii, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 71, pi. xvii. ; id. Orn. 



Per. ii. p. 395. 

 Phytotoma rara, Tsch. Faun. Per., Aves, p. 139 (?). 



Above greyish cinereous, with the feathers darker in the centre ; 

 narrow front of head rufous : beneath, throat pale ochraceous varied 

 with rufous ; fore-neck and flanks cinereous ; broad blotch on belly, 

 and crissum bright cinnamon-red ; wings blackish, with two white 

 cross bands ; tail blackish, lateral rectrices tipped with white : 

 whole length 6-5 inches, wing 3-4, tail 3-2. Female. Centres of 

 feathers of head and back darker, and their margins lighter than 

 in the male ; rump striated with black ; throat whitish fulvous ; 

 rest of under surface pale fulvous, with blackish-brown striations on 

 the sides of the throat, fore-neck, belly, and flanks ; wings and tail 

 as in the male 



Hab. Western littoral of N. Peru (Tumbez). 



The narrow red front, instead of the whole crown being red, and 

 the less amount of red on the lower surface at once distinguish this 

 well-marked species. 





