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RUFOUS-CROWNED TODY. 



Conopophaga ruficeps, SwATNS. 

 PLATE XVI. 



Crown orange-rufous ; front, lores, and ears, black ; chin and 

 middle of the body white ; interscapulars with dark exter- 

 nal edges Male. 



Above brown ; beneath femigineous-orange ; chin and middle 

 of tlie body whitish ; front and band over the eye and ear 

 white. Female. 



Myothera perspicillata, Lick. Berlin cat ? the male Conopo- 

 phaga ruficeps, Birds of Brazil, ii. PI. 72, 73. 



ALTHOUGH one species of this singular genus was 

 known to Buffon, who figured it at No. 822 of the 

 PL EnL>* nothing worth recording is mentioned 

 of its hahits, nor were we more successful in regard 

 to this and another species, procured during our 

 travels in Brazil. Its long legs, however, leads to 

 me conjecture that it occasionally frequents the 

 {round, although the inequality of its toes, and the 

 :omplete union of the first joint of the middle one 

 o the outer, show that its natural hahits are more 

 tfborial than terrestrial. 



* The Conopophagu* Uucatii of Vieill. Gall. PI. 127. 



