198 Mr. P. L. Sclater on the Neotropical 



Genus 3. Rhinocrypta. 



Rhinonuja, Is. GeofFr. et D'Orb. Mag. de Zool. 1832, Ois. 

 pi. 3. 



Rhinocrypia, Gray, List of Gen. 1841, p. 25. 



This conspicuous form is allied to Pteroptochus, but differs 

 in its short bill with much-arched culmen, rather shorter and 

 stronger legs, and in the well-marked divisions of the tarsal 

 scutes. The tail-feathers are twelve in number : the hind 

 claw is short and curved. 



1. Rhinockypta lanceolata. 



Rfiinomya lanceolata, Is. Geoffr. et D^Orb. Mag. de Zool. 

 1832, Ois. pi. 3; D'Orb. Voy. Ois. p. 194, pi. 7. fig. 1 ; Dar- 

 vjdn, Zool. BeaglCj iii. p. 70. 



Rhinocrypta lanceolata, Gray, List, of Gen. 1841, p. 25 ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 205; Burm. La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 471; 



Sclater, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 543; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 76. 



Ex olivaceo cinerea ; capite cristato rufo, plumis albo lanceo- 



latis : subtus clare cinerea, ventre medio albo, laterali 



utrinque castaneo : cauda intus nigra : long, tota 8*0, 



alse 3*2, caudse 3*1. 



Hab. La Plata occ, Catamarca et Mendoza {Burm.) ; 

 Patagonia bor., Rio Negro [D'Orb., Darwin, et Hudson). 



Mus. P. L. S. 



I have skins of this bird from the neighbourhood of Men- 

 doza, collected by Weisshaupt, and from the Rio Negro of 

 Patagonia by Mr. Hudson. The sexes, as determined by the 

 latter, are alike. 



The native name of this bird is " Gallito," or little cock, 

 from its mode of carrying the tail upright. Mr. Hudson 

 has given us some good notes on its habits (P. Z. S. 1872, 

 p. 543). 



2. Rhinocrypta fusca. (Plate VIII.) 

 Rhinocrypta fusca, Sclater et Salv. Nomencl. p. IQ. 

 Rhinocrypta fulv a, Philippi, MS. 



Supra pallide murino-fusca unicolor, aUs omnino concolo- 

 ribus : loris superciliis indistinctis et corpore subtus lac- 

 tescenti-albis : cauda nigra, rectricibus duabus mediis et 

 reliquarum marginibus dorso concoloribus : subalaribus 



