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BUFOUS-CROWNED TODY. 



Conopopkaga ruficeps, SWAINS. 

 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 ferrugineous-orange ; chin and middle 

 of tli e body whitish ; front and band over the eye and ear 

 white. Female. 



Myothera pcrspicillata, 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 

 PI. Enl. 9 * nothing worth recording is mentioned 

 of its habits, nor were we more successful in regard 

 to this and another species, procured during our 

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

 the conjecture that it occasionally frequents the 

 pound, although the inequality of its toes, and the 

 complete union of the first joint of the middle one 

 o the outer, show that its natural hahits are more 

 *rborial than terrestrial. 



* The Conopophague leucatis of Vieill. Gall. PI. 127. 



