18. MIDAS. G7 



** Nose black; whiskers white, broad. 

 4. Midas leucogenys. White-cheeked Midas. B. M. 



Black ; back, and outside of hind limbs, washed with reddish grey ; 

 face black, with a large triangular white spot under each cheek. 

 M. leucogenys, Gray, P. Z. S. 18GG! 

 Hub. Brazil. 



See M. nigricollis, Spix, Bras. t. 21 j but it is difficult to determine 

 if the nose is white or black in the figures. In the descrip- 

 tion the lips are said to be white. 



* * * Nose black ; /ace brownish, with some grey hairs. 



5. Midas flavifrons. The Brown-headed Midas. B. M. 



Black; hinder part of back rather mottled with white; head 

 pale brown, black-varied. 



Midas flavifrons, Js. Geoff. Cat. p.J34, 1848; Castclnau, Mamm. Exped. 

 Amcr. Sud, t. G. f. 1. 



Male. Outside of limbs bright-rufous- washed ; underside of body 

 and inside of limbs red brown. 



Female. Outside of limbs and underpart of body blackish. 

 Uab. Brazil, Bates. 



Sec also — 



a. Midas rufordger, I. Geoff. Cat. p. G4, 1848 ; Castclnau, Exped. 



Amor. Sud, t. 5. f. 3. Back, loins, thighs and legs bright- 

 red chestnut. Hah. Brazil. Mus. Paris. 



b. Midas Dcvillii, Is. Geoff. Cat. p. G4 ; Castclnau, Exped. Amer. 



Sud, t. G. f. 2. Loins, thighs, and legs bright-red chestnut ; 

 back black, anmdatcd with grey ; head, neck, and front part 

 of the back and fore limbs, and four hands and tail black. 

 liab. Peru. Mus. Paris. 



c. Midas nli/rifrons, I. Geoff. Cat. p. G4. Forehead and circumfe- 



rence of face black ; crown of tho head, tho throat, neck, 

 and front limbs brown, finely punctated with red (hairs an- 

 nulated at the tips with these colours). Back black- and 

 yellow-ringed ; croup and hinder limbs red-punctated ; lower 

 part of body and insides of limbs reddish brown '; hands and 

 tail black. 



d. Midas III if/eri, Pucheran, Mag. Zool. 1845, p. 33G. Head black; 



back and loins black- and fulvous-banded ; the rest of tho 

 body red ; tail and hands black. Uab. Columbia? 



e. Midas fuscicollis, Spix, Bras. t. 1. M. Weddellii, Dcville, ltev. 



Zool. 1H49, p. 55; Is. Geoff. Cat. p. G5. Loins, thighs, and 



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