426 cuctrxiB^. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper parts browner ; tliroat spotted phasianellus, p. 425. 



b. Upper parts blacker ; throat without spots .... imvoninus, p. 427. 



1. Dromococcyx phasianellus. 



Macropus phasianellus, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 53, pi. 42 (1824). 

 Coccyzus phasianellus, Ste^ih. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 206 (1826). 

 Dromococcyx phasianellus, Nemvied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iv. p. 353 



(1832) ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 321 (1862) ; Sahin, Ibis, 1868, p. 486 ; 



Scl. ^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 107 (1873). 

 Diplcpterus phasianellus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 456 (1847) ; id. Kand-l. 



B. ii. p. 209, no. 8906 (1870). 

 Geotacco macrourus, Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1849, p. 277. 

 Dromococcyx mexicanus, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 957 (1856) ; Scl. 



Cat. Amer. B. p. 321 (1862). 

 Dromococcyx rufigularis, Lawrence, Froc. Ac. Philad. 1867, p. 233. 

 Diplopterus rufigularis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 209, no. 8908 



(1870). 

 Diplopterus mexicanus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 209, no. 8907 (1870). 



Adult male. General plumage above dark brown, with a slight 

 green and lilac gloss ; forehead dark brown, passing into bright 

 rufous on the occipital crest ; feathers of the mantle and wings 

 with partial pale edges, occasionally forming whitish spots on some 

 of the feathers of the wings ; upper tail-coverts and tail with small 

 white ends to the feathers ; a bare patch round the eye, from behind 

 which a broad white eyebrow extends down the sides of the nape ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of the neck dark brown ; chin, breast, and 

 under tail-coverts white, shaded with rufous-buff on the centre and 

 lower throat, where each feather has a blackish shaft-stripe widening 

 into subterminal spots ; under surface of the quills dark brown, 

 with the base of the feathers and a partial bar white, like the under 

 wing-coverts : iris brown ; upper mandible dark brown, paler towards 

 the edges of the gape ; lower mandible yellowish ; legs pale. 

 Total length 14*7 inches, culmen 1, wing 6-7, tail 9, tarsus 1-35. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 14 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 6-3, tail 9, tarsus 1-25. 



Hab. From Mexico, throughout Central America, to Colombia, 

 and thence to Brazil. 



o. Ad. sk. Central America. Seebohm Coll. 



b c. Ad. sk. Jalapa (de Oca). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Buctzotz, Yucatan (G. T. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Gaumer). 



e,f. Ad. sk. Guatemala. Sclater Coll. 



g, h. Ad. sk. Coban, Jan., Feb. (0. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i, k I. Ad. sk. Panama (J. McLeannan ^ Salvin-Godman Coll. 



A. Hughes), 



m, n. Ad. et juv. Bogota. Seebohm Coll. 



sk. 



0, p. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



q. Ad. St. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



