120 capitoxtd-t;. 



19. TETRAGONOPS. „ 



Type. 

 Tetragonops, t/flrrf. Eduib. Phil. Jouni. n. s. i. p. 404 



(1855) T. rlmniphastinu.*. 



Range. Ecuador ; Costa Rica. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Coloui's varied ; head black, sides of face and 



thi'oat blue-grey ; breast scarlet rhamphri'ftinus, p. 120. 



b. Colours simple ; olive with goldeu yellow on 



the forehead and reddish olive on the 



thi'oat frantzii, p. 121. 



1. Tetragonops rhamphastinus. 



Tetragonops rhamphastiuus, Janl. Edinb. Phil. Juuni. n. s. i. p. 404 

 (1855), iii. p. 92, pi. iv. (185U) ; -S'c/. Ibis, 1859, p. 403 note, 1860, 

 p. 184, pi. vi., 1802, p. 2 ; Goffin, Mus. Pays-Ba.i, IJuccones, 

 p. 93 (1803); Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 10 (18ii8); id. 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 177, no. 8488 (1870) ; Marshall, Munoyr. Capit. 

 p. 1, pi. i. (1871) ; Scl. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 110 (1873) ; 

 Garrod, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 932; Taez. lif Berl. P. Z. 8. 1885, 

 p. 116. 



Adult. General colour above dark goldeu brown, with a band 

 of goldeu yellow across the lower back, the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts also washed with golden yellow ; scapulars like the back ; 

 wing-coverts slaty blue, including the innermost secondaries ; 

 bastard-wing and primary- coverts blackish, externally washed 

 with olive-yellow or tinged with slaty blue ; tail-feathers dark 

 slaty blue ; crown of head glossy black, produced into a nuchal 

 crest of elongated feathers, which overhang the mantle ; hind neck 

 also glossy black ; lores and feathers round eye, as well as the 

 base of the cheeks, black ; a broad white streak along the sides of 

 the hinder crown ; sides of the face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and entire 

 throat pale greyish blue ; the chin white ; fore neck bright glossy 

 scarlet, which colour extends down the centre of the breast, which 

 is otherwise dark golden yellow ; flanks, thighs, vent, and under 

 tail-coverts dull green, the latter washed with yellow ; under 

 wing- coverts ashy grey, with a blue shade near the edge of the 

 wiug; quills below dusky blackish, pale yellow along the edge. 

 Total length 8"5 inches, culmen 0"59, wing 1*25, tail 3-2, tarsus 

 Mo. 



Hah. Ecuador. 



a, hy c. Ad. sk. Ecuador. Gould Coll. 



d, ^^f,ff- Ad. sk. Ecuador. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



/^. Ad. sk. Ecuador. Sclater Coll. 



i,k. Ad.sk. la tac, Ecuador (C. ^MC^/ey). Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador. Purchased. 



