76 FRIXGILLID-E. 



dusky below, ashy along the inner web. Total length 5-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 2-9, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-7. 

 Jfab. Southern Brazil, re-occurring in Guiana. 



a. cJ ad. sk. River Oyapock, French Sclater Coll. 



Guiana (Jelski). 



b. cJ ad. sk. Punta Lara, Buenos Ayres, Henry Dumford, Es<j. 



Nov. 1875. [C.]. 



14. ORYZOBORUS*. „, 



Type. 



Oryzoborus, Cab. Mm. Rein. Th. i. p. 151 (1850; 0. torridus. 



Head of Oryzoborus crassirostris. 



Range. Throughout Central America and South America to 

 Brazil, Amazonia, and Peru. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Breast chestnut, contrasting with the black throat, torridus, p. 77. 



b. Breast black like the rest of the under surface. 

 «'. Bill yellowish white. 



a". Size larger; wing 2-6-2-95 inches: under 



wing-coverts white, with a blackish patch 



formed by the outer coverts near the base 



of the primaries. 



a'". Culmen 07 : axillaries entirely white . . ma.vimUiani, p. 78. 



b'". Culmen 6-0 - G5 : axillaries white, those 



nearest the breast black crassirostris, p. 79. 



b". AVing 3 inches: axillaries black, as also 

 the under wing-coverts, the lower series 



of the latter with whitish bases; alar ( ., , 7 . OA 

 , ,...,. occidentahs, p. 80. 



speculum nearly invisible < „„„**,■ • L 



b'. Bill black. y m I nuthnff hV . 80. 



c". Size smaller; wing 225 inches: axillaries 



and under wing-coverts entirely white. . . . funereus, p. 81. 

 d". Larger; wing 2-9 inches: axillaries and 



under wing-coverts black atrirostris, p. 81. 



* Loxia 11EGULUS. 



Loxia regulus, Shaw, Lev. Mits. ii. p. 47, pi. 



Goniaphea regulus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 104, no. 7559 (1870). 

 Gray considers that this species is an Oryzoborus. It has a crimson crest, 

 and looks as if it were made up of Oryzoborus crassirostris with a red crest 

 inserted. 



