IGO 



EEGERHINUS MEGARHYNCHUS. 



Eegerlnnus megarhynclius Des Murs, Casteln. Voy. Zool. Ois. 1855, 0, pi. 1. 



Cymindis megarhynchus Gray, Hand List, i, 1889, 28. — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Neotrop» 



1873, 122. 

 Lexriodon megarhynclius Sharpe, Cat. Ace. Br.*Mus. 1874,332. 



Hal). — Peru aud Bolivia (Sharpe). 



'■'■ Nearly adult. — Above slaty blue. Clearer on the head and darker 

 on the back ; wing-coverts brown, margined with deep ocher (evidently 

 the remains of young plumage) ; quills brown, shaded externally with 

 ashy, the secondaries clearer brown, with rufous-white tips ; under sur- 

 face of wings white at base, greyish-white for the apical half, all the 

 quills barred above and below with dark brown; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts blackish brown, the latter barred near the base and 

 tipped with white; tail alternately banded with black and ashy-brown, 

 and tipped with white, the black bands being much the broadest, and 

 between them and the ashy bauds a faint indication of a white line ; 

 throat slaty-blue, like the sides of the face ; rest of the under surface 

 slaty -blue, banded narrowly with white ; under wing- and tail-coverts 

 white, with only a few nearly obsolete indications of narrow brownish 

 cross-bars ; bill dark horn-black, yellowish on under mandible; feet deep 

 yellow, nails black. Total length 19 inches, culmen 2.5, wing 12.3, tail 

 9.2. tarsus 1.6."— (Shaepe, I. cT) 



This species we have not seen. It is apparently more like R. ivilsoni 

 than H. uncinatus, but is evidently very distinct from both. 



