A N D R O D N — G L A U C I S. 



Genus III.— ANDRODON. 



Androdon, Gould, Ann. Mag, Nat. Hist. 3d ser. (1803), p. 247. 



Ch. Bill twice as long as head, 

 straight, broad at base, tapering 

 to a point. Cutting edges ser- 

 rated, tip hooked. Wings long, 

 reaching nearly to the end of the 

 tail, which is rather short, broad, 

 and rounded. Feet moderate ; 

 tarsi naked 



Mange. Ecuador 



Size large. 



Tvi-E. 



A. cequatorialU, (ioiild. 



Fi.sr. 3. 



AndroHon aequatoHdlU S Ecuador. J.Goul^, typo. 



1. Androdon sequatorialis. 



Androdon wquatorialis. Gould, Ann. Maj. Nat. ITist. 3(1 ser. (18G3), p. 247. 

 Grypus oequatorialis, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouch., torn, i, p. 32, pi. — . 



Hah. Ecuador. 



3Iale. Bill long, straight, hooked at point, serrated on tlie edges of both maxilla 

 and mandible. Forehead dark gray, feathers tipped with metallic grass-green; 

 occiput and nape metallic dark blue. Back, bright metallic light grass-green. 

 Rump white, a few dark blue feathers on the edge of the green of the back. 

 Under parts white, edges of feathers blackish-bro^vn. Under tail coverts olive- 

 green, central part and tips of feathers white. Wings dark purple. Tail, median 

 feathers greenish-gray, tipped with dark green ; lateral feathers greenish-gray, with 

 a subterrainal bar of dark green, tips white. Maxilla black, mandible flesh-color. 

 Total length, 5.^ in. Wing, 2^ in. Tail, 1| hi. Cidmen, 1| in. 



The female difl'ers in the coloration of the head, which has the forehead dark 

 purplish-brown, top of head bronze, occiput dark metallic green. 



The genus Glaucis naturally follows Androdon. The species comprised in it 

 are birds of moderate size, and of plain plumage. I have placed in it some species 

 heretofore separated under the term Threnetes, as, with the exception of color, by 

 which, indeed, they themselves were not ^t all assimilated (witness anfoitice and 

 leiocurns), they do not possess, so far as I can see, any characters to give them a 

 distinctive generic rank. 



Genus IV.— GLAUCIS. 



Glaucis, BoiE, Isis (1831), p. 545. 



Th renetes, Gould, Inir, 'I'rocli., octavo od. (IHGl). p. 40. 



D nop her a, Heine, Journ. fur Ornith. (18G3), p. 175. 



TVPE. 



T. hirsutitf. Gmel. 

 T. kucurus, Linn. 

 T. antonia:, Bourc. and Muls. 



