280 TRocniLi. 



spicuous on the lower back and mmp ; nnclcr surface rufoue-ta-wny, 

 under tail-coverts paler ; tail black, the middle pair of rcctrices 

 tipped with white, the rest with rufous : maxilla black ; mandible, 

 except the tip, flesh-colour ; feet pale hazel. Total length about 

 5*7 inches, wing 2-3 ; tail, central rectrices 2-3, lateral 1 ; bill 1'4. 

 Some years ago I examined the type of this species, then in 

 Mr. Elliot's Collection. More recently a second specimen was 

 obtained by Herr Gustav Garlepp at Fonteboa, on the Amazons. 

 This is now in Count Berlepsch's collection, and was lent to me for 

 examination and description. 



Hah. Bolivia and Amazons Valley. 



67. PYGMORNIS*. 



Type. 



Pygmornis, Bih Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 250. 



Eremita, Beich. Aiifz. d. Col. p. 14. 



Momus, Muls. ^ Verr. Class. Troch. p. 19 (1865) P. idali£e. 



Pyg-omis, Muls. S/- Verr: Class. Troch. p. 18. 



Range. Tropical America from South-eastern Mexico to South 

 Brazil. 



Keij to the Species. 



a. No distinct black pectoral crescent. 



a'. Hump and mider tail-coverts more or less 

 rufescent. 

 a". Central rectrices subtermiually nearly 



black griseiyularis, p. 280. 



b". Central rectrices subterminally dark 

 green. 

 a'". Throat grey, with distinct stripes .... striif/ularis, p. 281. 



b'". Throat rufous, uustriped adolplii, p. 282. 



b' . Rump nearly imiform with the back, the 

 feathers narrowly edged with rufous ; under 

 tail-coverts white, 

 c". Rump-feathers distinctly edged with rufous lonyuemarei, p. 283. 

 d'' . Rump green, scarcely edged with rufous . idalice, p. 284. 



b. A distinct black jjectoral crescent. 



c' . Basal half of the mandible yellow. 



c". Outer rectrices beneath subtermiually 



black episcoims, p. 284. 



f. Outer rectrices beneath subtermally bronze pygmceus, \>. 28-5. 

 d''. Basal three-fourths of tlie mandible yellow . niyricinctus., p. 286. 



1. Pygmornis griseigularis. 



Phaethomis griseigularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 115 ; id. Mon. 

 Troch. i. pi. 36 (Nov. 1851); Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 286; Gray, 



* I do not know the bird described by Count v. Berlepsch as : — 



PlIAETIIORNIS RIOJiE, IMs, 1889, p. 182. 



Hah. N. Peru. 



It is said to bo allied to P. sfriiyularis. 



