164 CHAEADRIIDJE. 



Hudson, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 167 (Buenos Ayres) ; Hurting, t. c. 

 pp. 450, 457 (Uruguay) ; Bumf. Ibis, 1876, p. 164 (Buenos- 

 Ayres) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 42 (Chupat Valley, breeding) ; id. t. c. 

 p. 196 (Buenos Ayres) ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 627, 628 ; Scl. 

 % Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 546 (Antioquia) ; Gibson, Ibis, 1880, 

 p. 161 (Cape San Antonio) ; Durnf. t. c. p. 416 (Tucuman) ; 

 White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 627 (Buenos Ayres) ; Berlepsch, Ibis, 1884, 

 p. 441 (Angostura) ; Barroivs, Auk, i. p. 278 (1884 : Lower 

 Uruguay, breeding Aug. to Dec.) ; Gibson, Ibis, 1885, p. 282 

 (Paysandu) ; Berl. fy Iher. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. ii. p. 85 (1885 : 

 Taquara) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 178 (British Guiana) ; Seebohm, 

 Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 216 (1888) ; Scl. 8c Hudson, Argent. 

 Orn. ii. p. 165 (1889) ; Holland, Ibis, 1890, p. 425 (Argent. Rep.) ; 

 Saunders, Ibis, 1891, p. 160 ; -Graham Kerr, Ibis, 1891, p. 270 

 (Pilcomayo) ; id. Ibis, 1892, p. 150 ; Holland, t. c. p. 210 (Estancia 

 Espartilla, breeding) ; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H. v. p. 149 

 (1893 : Cuyaba, Matto Grosso). 



Philomachus cayanus {nee Lath.), Gould in Darwin's Voy. ' Beagle, r 

 Birds, p. 127 (1841 : La Plata). 



Belonopterus cayennensis, Meichenb. Grallee, p. xviii, tab. ci. figs. 

 678-80 (1852) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 418 (1856) ; Heine Sr Reichen. 

 Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 334 (1890 ; pt.). 



Adult male. General colour above ashy, with a metallic gloss of 

 oily green on the back and scapulars, the lower back and rump 

 dusky brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail pure white, the terminal 

 half black, tipped with white ; outer scapulars glossed with metallic 

 copper ; lesser wiug-coverts purplish black and metallic steel-green 

 in succession, with a slight purplish gloss ; median and greater 

 wing-coverts white, the inner ones ashy brown ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills black, the inner secondaries white or 

 ashy brown at the base, increasing in extent towards the innermost 

 secondaries, which are ashy brown with a metallic oily-green 

 lustre; forehead black to above the fore part of the eyes, and 

 including the base of the lores and a spot at the base of the cheeks, 

 followed by a whitish band across the fore part of the crown, the- 

 rest of which is light brown like the hind-neck, sides of neck, ear- 

 coverts, and sides of face to below the middle of the eye ; fore part 

 of the face white, forming a white patch between the black and 

 the brown colours, the fore part of the cheeks being white, the 

 hinder part brown ; chin and centre of throat black ; lower throat 

 light brown, like the sides of the neck ; fore-neck and upper breast 

 glossy black ; lower breast and abdomen, as well as tho under wing- 

 and tail-coverts white ; quills black below : " bill pale red at the base, 

 the tip blackish brown ; feet greyish brown, the joints red ; iris 

 sealing-wax red " (Neuwied). Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 1-3, 

 wing 9, tail 3-9, tarsus 3*2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but having a shorter 

 crest : " bill reddish purple, the point black ; thighs reddish purple ; 

 feet, toes, and claws black ; eyelid reddish purple ; iris red " (ff. 

 Whitely). Total length 13-5 inches, culmen 1*3, wing 9 -2, tail 3*8, 

 tarsus 2-9. 

 Hob. From Colombia and Guiana to Central and Southern Brazil. 



