140 RHAMPHASTID^. 



Above dark green, head and nape blackish, ear-coverts more or 

 less tinged with chestnut ; rump scarlet : beneath yellow ; throat 

 and neck and well-defined pectoral band black ; ventral band black, 

 more or less mixed with scarlet ; thighs brown, mixed with green ; 

 upper mandible wliite, with a narrow basal band and broad 

 culminal stripe black ; lower mandible black : whole length 18 

 inches, wing 6, tail (V5, bill from gape 4'5. Female similar. 



Hah. Colombia and Amazonia. 



P. ])h(rici)ictus was established on batterer's specimens from the 

 Rio Negro, and P. poecilostcrnns on Bogota skins. I cannot 

 separate examples from these localities, but Upper Amazonian 

 specimens have the ventral band much more mixed with scarlet, as 

 in Gould's figure of P. j^oef' lost emus. However, there is much 

 variation on this point, and I think it much better not to recognize 

 more than one species. 



a-d. Ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman, 



Sclater, and Gould Colls. 



e,f. S $ ad.sk. Rio Negro. Gould Coll. 



(/. Ad. sk. Rio Napo. Sclater Coll. 



/(,/, Ad.sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (^Mf/c/e?/). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. (S ad. sk. Chayavetas, E. Peru {Bart- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



leit). 



I. (S ad. sk. Loretoyacu, E. Peru (Han.r- Sclater Coll. 



well). 



m-o. Ad. sk. Upper Amazons. Gould Coll. 



p. Bill. Upper Amazons. Gould Coll. 



5. Pteroglossus castanotis. 



Pteroglossus castanotis, Govld, P. Z. S. 1833, p. 119, et 1834, p. 75: 

 id. Mon. Pamp/i. ed. 1, pi. 13, et ed. 2, pi. 19 ; Sturm, Mov. 

 Pamph. pt. ii. pi. 1 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 93 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1854, 

 p. 115 (Ecuador), et 1855, p. 161 (Bogota) ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 326 : 

 Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1867, p! Ill ; Peh. Orn. Bras. p. 236 ; 

 Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 186G, p. 195 (Ucavali), 1873, p. 297 (E. Peru), 

 et 1879, p. 633 (Bolivia) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 109 ; Tacz. Orn. Per. 

 iii. p. 151 ; Berl. J.f. 0. 1889, p. 311. 



Above dark green ; head black, sometimes with a chestnut coronal 

 spot ; nape and sides of head more or less brownish chestnut ; rump 

 scarlet : beneath pale yellow ; throat and fore neck black, thi'oat 

 sometimes more or less chestnut ; broad ventral band scarlet ; thighs 

 brown : upper mandible straw-colour, with a broad culminal stripe 

 and elongated band on each side along the base black ; lower man- 

 dible black : whole length IS inches, wing 6, tail 6-5, bill from 

 gape 4-2. Female similar. 



Hah. Colombia, Ecuador, Amazonia, Bolivia, and interior of 

 Brazil. 



This is a wide-ranging species and is subject to much variation. 

 The southern bird has xsualhj a brownish coronal patch and a lighter 



