288 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



the wings and the sides of the tail feathers have a rufous 

 brown tinge, which also extends to the ears and the inner 

 wing covers : outer webs and margin of the inner webs of 

 the quills rufous : tail rounded. 



23. VAcnvnYi^cnvs Swainsonii. Jardiiieand Selby.* 

 Above, olive ; beneath, yellowish : head subcrested, 

 ferrugineous in the male, olive in the female : wings 

 and tail black, with all the feathers more or less tipt or 

 margined with ferrugineous : eyes encircled with a 

 white ring : no spurious quiU. 



Inhabits the forests of Eastern Brazil. Mus. Nost. 

 As the male only of this interesting species was known to 

 the authors who have done me the honour of attaching my 

 name to it, I have here indicated the female : the spurious 

 quill is wanting in both sexes. Its size and dimensions are 

 those of P. Cuvieri, of which Vieilloti Jardine and Selby seems 

 to be the female. 



24. Pachyrynchus ruficeps. 



Rufous chestnut : paler beneath : crown of the head 

 darker, sub-crested, and encircled, except in front, with 

 a cinereous band. Tail rather lengthened, graduated : 

 no spurious quill. 



Inhabits Brazil. Pachy.rufescens? Spix. pi. 46. f. 2. 



Total length Gh inches; bill, gape -^-^ ; ditto, front ^ ; wings 

 3 ; second and fifth equal ; the four middle tail feathers equal, 

 the rest graduated ; tarsi 13. Ears pale chestnut like the 

 throat The cinereous band commences at the lores, passes 

 over the eye, and thus isolates the dark rufous of the crown 

 from the side of the head. 



25. Pachyrynchus pectoralis. 



Above, black, glossed with bluish ; beneath, dark 

 cinereous : wings ferrugineous : throat with a rose- 

 coloured spot : no spurious quill. 



Inhabits Cayenne. Mus. Paris. Querula minor 

 Lesson, Traite d'Orn. 363. 



Size rather larger than P. Cuvieri. Total length about 7 

 inches; bill, from the gape ^^ ; ditto, from the nostrils ^ ; 

 wings 3^ ; tarsus f^. Typical in form, although aberrant in 



* Illust. of Orn. ii. Appendix. 



