158 PLATYRHYNCHUS. 



that the males, like that of P. cancromus, are dis- 

 tinguished by a concealed crest, an ornament so 

 common among the fly-catching groups of America ; 

 but of which we do not know of more than one 

 example in the flycatchers of the Old World. 



YELLOW-CRESTED FLAT-BILL. 



Platyrkynehus cancromus, TEMMINCK. 

 PLATE XVII. 



Above light brown ; beneath fulvous-yellow ; throat white ; 

 crown with a concealed crest of pure yellow. 



Todus platyrhynchus, Auct Platyrhynchus cancromus, 

 Temm., PI. Col. 12, fig. 1. 



HITHERTO we have only seen one bird out of all 

 those broad-billed flycatchers which have been called 

 Platyrhynchi) which really belongs to this subgenus, 

 as at present defined. There is, nevertheless, what 

 appears to be a second, having a white crest, figured 

 by Desmarest and Vieillot, and by the latter stated 

 as a native of Senegal, a locality which we feel 

 assured must be erroneous, since there has not been 

 one land bird yet discovered which is a native both 

 of tropical Africa and tropical America. In the 



