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1. Rhainpliodon naevius. 



Trocliilus ufevius, Dianont, Did. 8c. Nat. xxvii. p. 432 ; Temm, PI, 



Col. 120. f. 3. 

 Grypus riilicollis, Spix, Av, Bras. i. p. 79, pi. 80. f. 3. 

 Rbamphodou maculatum, Less. Hist. Xat. Col. p. 18, pi. 1, 

 Giypus iifevius, Gould, Man. Troch. i. pi. 1 (Maj- 1852) ; id. Intr, 



Troch. p. 35; Bunn.Syst. Ueh.u. p. 320; Pelz' Oni. Bras. -p. 27; 



Muls. 4' Verr. Class. Troch, p. 13 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, 



i. p. 33 ; id. A7171. Sac. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 199 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 123 ; Eudes-lJesl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 75. 

 Eliamphodou ntevius, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 15 ; Cab. S^- Heine, 



Mus. Hein. iii. p. 3 ; Berl. J. f. Orn. 1873, p. 273 ; Elliot, Syn, 



Troch. p. 4. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark golden green, each feather 

 fringed with fulvous and with a subapical band of dark brown, 

 which becomes wider on the crown, rendering it much darker than 

 the back ; eyebrow and a patch on either side of the throat fulvous, 

 a postocular spot purple-black ; middle of the throat black, each 

 feather with a buff margin ; chest and abdomen black, each feather 

 with a whitish lateral margin, becoming broader and more buff on 

 the belly ; under tail-coverts buff, with a black discal patch ; tail 

 greenish purple-brown, the three lateral feathers on either side with 

 a broad graduated fulvous end, on the outermost rectrix occu- 

 pying the distal half ; maxilla blackish, basal two-thirds of the 

 mandible yellow. Total length 6 inches, wing 2-9, tail 2'15, 

 bill 1-6. 



Female. Similar to the male, the maxilla less hooked at the tip 

 and with the serrations not so distinct, the dark patch on the throat 

 less defined. 



The dark patch on the throat varies in different individuals, in 

 some becoming obsolete towards the chest. 



Hah. South-eastern Brazil. 



a-c. (5 ad. ; d-h. Brazil (Rio make). Salvin-Godmau & 



5 ad. sk. Gould Colls. 



i. $ ad. sk. Registro do Sal, Brazil {Nat- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



terer). 



j. 2 ad. sk. Rio Claro, Brazil (Joyner). Salviu-Godinau Coll. 



k. 2 ad. sk. Santa Fe, Minas Geraes Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{Boi/ers). 



I. 2 a<l- St. Purchased. 



5. ANDRODON. 



Type. 



Androdou, Gould, Ann, ^- May. N. H. 18G3, xii. 



p. 247 A. ffiquatorialis. 



Range. Coloml)ia and Ecuador. 



