378 



CtrCTTLTD^. 



Phcenicophaus corallirliynchiis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 7o9 (1845). 

 Pyrrhococcyx brachvpterus, Cab. in-Schomb.Reise Guiana, iii. p. Tl-l 



(1848). 

 Coccygus brachypterus, Burm. Syst. Uebers. Th. Bras. ii. p. 266 



(1856). 

 Cuculu3 amaurocephalus, Licfit. in Mus. Berol.,Jide Cab. ^ Heine. 

 Pyrrhococcyx melanogaster, Cab. ^- Heine, Mtis. Hein. iv. p. 88 (1862). 

 Piaya melanogastra, Schl. Mm. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 59 (1864) ; 



Scl. S^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 752, 758 ; Pek. Orn. Bras. p. 273 



(1871) ; Scl. Sf Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 108 (1873) ; id. P. Z. S. 



1873, p. 296 ; Tacz. Orn. Peroti, iii. p. 188 (1886). 

 Coccyzus melanogaster, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 211, no. 8927 (1870). 



Adult. Above chestnut, with the forehead and crown grey ; quills 

 with dark-brown ends ; all the tail-feathers with white ends and 

 broad black subterminal bars ; sides of the head grey like the 

 crown ; ear-coverts and the entire throat, neck, and front of the 

 chest rufous ; under wing-coverts slaty grey ; quills chestnut, with 

 brown ends : " bill red ; irides crimson ; legs and claws slate- 

 colour" (//. Whitchj). Total length 15-3 inches, culmen 1'3, 

 wing 5-4, tail 9-3, tarsus 1-4. 



Hah. Guiana, Amazonia to Eastern Ecuador and Northern Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b, c. Ad. sk. 

 d,e. c? 2 ad. sk. 



/. Ad. sk. 

 g. Ad. sk. 

 h. Ad. sk. 

 i, k, I. Ad. sk. 



m. Ad. sk. 



n, o. Ad. sk. 

 2). 2 ad. sk. 

 q. cj ad. sk. 



South America. 

 British Guiana. 

 Bartica Grove, British Guiana, 



Sept., Nov. {H. Whitely). 

 Cayenne. 

 River Amazons. 

 Kio Negro. 

 Chamicuros, Peruvian Amazons, 



May, Sept. 

 Chyavetas, E. Peru, July {E. 



Bartlett). 

 Sarayacu, Ecuador (C.BucJdey). 

 Borb'a, Brazil, Feb. (J.Natferer). 

 Borba, Brazil, May [J.Natterer). 



3. Piaya miniita. 



Old Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll, 



Zoological Society. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Edward Bartlett, 



Esq. [C.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 



Cuculus cayanus, var. /3, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 170 (1766) ; Wald. 



I6is, 1869, p. 335. 

 ? Cuculus rutilus, III. AbJiandl. Berl. Ak. Wissensch. 1812, p. 224. 

 Coccyzus minutus, VieilL Notiv. Diet. viii. p. 275 (1817) ; id. Enc. 



Meth. p. 1346 (1823) ; Burm. Thier. Bras. ii. p. 267 (1855). 

 Coccvi!US rutilus, Vieill. Nouv. Did. viii. p. 277 (1817) ; id. Enc. Meth. 



p. 1348 (1823) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 212, no. 8936 (1870). 

 Macropus caixana, pt., SpLv, Av. Bras. i. p. 54, pi. 43. fig. 2, 2 (1824). 

 Coccyzus caixana (wee Spix), Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 207 (1826). 

 Cuculus monachus, Cuv. Mus. Paris, Jide Less. 

 Coccycua monachus, Less. Traite, p. 142 (1831) ; Pucher. Rev. et 



Mar/. Zool. 1853, p. 68. 

 Piaya minuta, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 457 (1846); Scl.P.Z.S. 1860, 



p 297 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 322 (1862) ; Leotaud, Ois. Trinidad, 



p. 348 (1866) ; Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 195, 1867, p. 585, 



1870, p. 782, 1873, p. 296, 1879, p. 537 ; id. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



