26 IBIDID^. 



c. cS ad. sk. Bartica Grove, British Gui- Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



ana, Dec. 30 (H. Whitely). 



d, e. Ad. sk. Rio Cotapaza, Ecuador (C. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Buckley). 

 f. Ad. sk. Interior of New Granada. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ff. S ad. sk. Nielli, U.S. Colombia (T. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



K. Salmon). 

 h, i. Ad. sk. Lion Hill, Panama [J. Mc- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Lean?ia?i). 



13. PHIMOSUS. 



Type. 

 Phimosus, Waffler, Isis, 1832, p. 1233 P. infu.^catus. 



Range. Colombia to Central and Southern Brazil and south to 

 Argentina. 



1. Phimosus infuscatus. 



Curucau afeytado, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 201 (1803). 



Ibis infuscata, Licht. Verz. JJoubl. p. 75 (1823) ; Neuivied, Beitr. 

 Naturq. Bras. iv. p. 699 (1832) ; Cah. in Schomb. Reis. Giiian. iii. 

 p. 756(1848); Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 422 (1856: Rio Janeiro ; 

 San Paulo; Para<?uay) ; id. Reis. La Plata-St. p. 511 (1861 : Rio 

 Parana) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ibis, p. 8 (1863 : Brazil ; Colom- 

 bia) ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 384 (Lake Paturia) ; Reicheti. J.f. O. 

 1877, p. i53. 



Ibis nudifrons, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 69, pi. 86 (1824) ; Waaler, 

 Syst. Av., Ibis, p. 370, sp. 6 (1827) ; Less. Traite, p. 567 (1831). 



I'himosus infuscatus, TVayler, Isis, 1832, p. 1233 ; Reichenb. Grail. 

 Taf. 140. fig. 529 (1851 ) ; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 156 (1855) ; Scl. 

 8f Salv. Nome?icl. Av. Neotr. p. 127 (1873) ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, 

 p. 495 ; Durnf. Ibis, 1878, p. 63 (Buenos Ayres, breeding-) ; Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1880, p.363 (Salta. June), 188G, p. 171 ; Berl. J. f. O. 1887, 

 p. 32 (Pilcomayo) ; Scl. Sr Hudson, Aryeiit. Orn. ii. p. 113 (1889) ; 

 Graham Kerr, Ibis, 1892, p. 145 (Timbo R. ; R. Paraguay; 

 Mouth of Pilcomayo R.) ; Holland, t. c. p. 205 (Estancia Espar- 

 tilla, May to Aug.). 



Harpiprion nudifrons. Gray, List Grallce Brit. Mus. p. 92 (1844). 



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

 Ind. Azara, p. 23 (1847) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 41, no. 10235 

 (1871); Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 307 (1871: Rio Parana, May; 

 Caigara, Nov.). 



Adult male. General colour above black, with a steel-green gloss, 

 more distinctly seen on the wings, which are more strongly glossed 

 with coppery green and rosy purple ; the greater coverts and the 

 quills dark steel-green with a slight coppery gloss, the inner 

 secondaries like the back ; tail also glossy steel-green ; forehead, 

 fore part of face, and chin bare, of a pink colour in life, with carun- 

 culations on the forehead and cheeks ; neck all round and under 

 surface of body black, glossed with reddish purple on the former 

 and with dull green on the latter ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries more distinctly glossed with steel-green, the lower greater 

 coverts and the quill-lining being metallic bronzy green: "bill 

 dingy white ; feet pale pink ; iris light brown " {H. Durnford.). 

 Total length 20-5 inches, culmen 5-1, wing 11-3, tail 4-8, tarsus 2-6. 



