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11. MOLYBDOPHANES. 



Type. 

 Molybdophanes, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xiv (1852). M. cserulescens. 



Range. The same as that of the single species of the genus. 



1. Molybdophanes caerulescens. 



Curucau aplomado, Azara, Ajnmt. iii. p. 195 (1803). 



Ibia crerulescens, Vieill. Kouv. Diet. (THist. Nat. xvi. p. 18 (1817) ; 

 Schl. Mm. Pays-Bas, Ibis, p. 9 (1863) ; Scl. l^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, 

 p. 63o (Conchitas) ; Eeichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 155. 



Ibis phimbea, Temm. PI Col. v. pi. 235 (1823) ; Wagl. Syst. Av., 

 Ibis, p. 372, sp. 14 (1827) ; Less. Traite, p. 567 (1831) ; Tschidi 

 4- Cab. Faim. Per. pp. 51, 298 (184.5-46) ; Burm. Th. Bras. iii. 

 p. 422 (18.56. S. Brazil; Paraguay); id. Reise La Plata- St. ii. 

 p. 510 (1861 : Banda Oriental ; Fntrerios). 



Harpiprion plumbeus, Wayl. Isis, 1832, p. 1232. 



Theristicus caerulescens, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 91 (1844 : 

 "Mexico"). 



Geronticus caerulescens. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 566 (1847) ; Hartl. 

 Inde.v Azara, p. 23 (1847) ; Gray, mmd-l. B. iii. p. 40, no. 10226 

 (1871) ; Peh. Orn. Bras. pp. .307, 457 (1871 : Cai^ara, Sept., Nov.). 



Molybdophanes caerulescens, Reiche^ib. Grail. Taf. 291. iigs. 2383- 

 84 (1851); Bi). Consp. ii. p. 154 (185.5); Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, 

 p. 503. 



Harpiprion caerulescens, Scl.Sr Salv. Noynencl. p. 127 (1873) ; Gibson, 

 Ibis, 1880, p. 155 (San Antonio) ; Taczan. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 419 

 (1886) : Scl. Sf Huds. Arg. Orn. ii. p. 112 (1889) ; Graham Kerr, 

 Ibis, 1891, p. 270 (R. Pilcomayo) ; id. Ibis, 1892, p. 145. 



Adult female. General colour above hoary grey, mottled with 

 sub-terminal markings of dusky brown, which has a greenish tinge ; 

 wing-coverts like the back, the greater series dusky, externally 

 hoary grey ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, 

 externally glossed with green or purple, the inner secondaries like 

 the back ; upper tail-coverts glossy olive-green, the tail-feathers 

 dusky and glossed with darker green ; head and face fully feathered, 

 of a dull ash-colour, with a frontal band of white, narrowing in 

 the centre of the forehead ; crest-feathers extremely long and 

 narrow, like the feathers of the sides of the neck and lower throat, 

 all of which are hoary grey with ashy centres ; throat dusky grey ; 

 remainder of under surface of body uniform hoary grey, darker on 

 the under tail-coverts, which are freckled with dusky vermiculations ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries somewhat darker ashy ; quills 

 below dusky, with a wash of greenish bronze : " bill, lores, and 

 naked chin black ; toes reddish yellow ; iris orange " (Burmeister). 

 Total length 30 inches, culmen 5-6, wing 15-2, tail 6-5, tarsus 3*1. 



Hab. Central Brazil to Paraguay and Argentina. 



a. $ ad. sk. Villa Maria, Matto Grosso, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Brazil, Sept. 4 (/. Natterer). 



b. Ad. sk. Chili. Old CoU. 



c. Ad. St. S. America. Purchased. 



d. e. Skeletons. S. America. Purchased. 



