184 Mr. F. L. Sclater on the American Barbets. 



Genus I. Tetragonops. 



Tetragonops, Jard. Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. n. s.ii. p. 401 (1859). 



Rostro forti, ad basin quadrato, mandibulse apice bifuvcata et 

 maxilla, supra banc leniter iucurvata, obtecta. 



Tetragonops ramphastinus. (Plate VI.) 

 Tetragonops ramphastinus, Jard. Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. 1855, 

 n. s. ii. p. 404, et iii. p. 92 (cum fig.). 



Pileo et nucha media cum cervice postica atris ; nucha utrinque 

 laterali Candida ; dorse flavo-olivascenti-brunneo ; uropygio 

 olivaceo-fiavo ; alis caudaque schistaceo-nigris, remigibus 

 extus olivascentibus : gutture late schistaceo, ventre summo 

 olivaceo-flavo, hoc medio et vittji pectorali coccineis ; ventre 

 imo crissoque cum lateribus schistaceo-virentibus : rostro 

 flavo, dimidio apicali schistaceo : long, tota 8'3, alse 4*0, 

 caudte 3"25. 

 Hab. in rep. iEquator. 

 Mus. Gul. Jardine, Bar. 



Sir William Jardine received a specimen of this very curious 

 and beautiful bird in September 1 859 from Professor Jameson 

 of Quito, and described it in the ' Edinburgh New Philosophical 

 Journal ' for that year, as noticed above. In the following volume 

 some further details were given respecting it, and an uncoloured 

 drawing of it, from the pencil of Mrs. H. E. Strickland. Sir 

 William Jardine having kindly placed the stone with the drawing 

 on it at my disposal, I thought that a coloured figure of this 

 strange bird would be acceptable to the readers of ' The Ibis,' 

 and I have to thank Mrs. Strickland for supplying me with a 

 coloured copy of the plate for a pattern. 



Sir William Jardine has since received a second example of 

 this bird from Professor Jameson. I particularly called the 

 attention of Mr. Fraser, when he was in Ecuador, to this bird ; 

 but though he visited the exact locality where Professor Jameson's 

 specimens were obtained (Nanegal, on the Pacific slope of the 

 western range of the Andes, as he was informed by Professor 

 Jameson, and not Cayambe), he was unable to procure specimens ; 

 so we must suppose the bird to be rare. 



will be found collected in Horsfield and Moore's ' Catalogue of the Birds 

 in the East India Company's Museum ' (ii. p. 635 et seq.). 



