218 CUCULIDiE. 



A. Marginibus rostri dentatis. 



A. With the edges of the beak dentated. 



Sp. 1. Tr. curucui. Stepk.v. ix. p. 16.pl. 4*. — Brazil. 



Sp. 2. Tr. viridis. Steph. v. ix. p. ii. pi. 4. — Cayenne. 



Sp. 3. Tr. violaceus, Steph. v. ix. p. 8 — Cayenne. 



Sp. 4. Tr. strigillatus. Steph. v. ix. p. 10. — Guiana. 



Sp. 5. Tr. rufus. Steph. v. ix. p. 9. pi. 3. — Cayenne. 



Sp. 6. Tr. variegatus. Spix, Avium Nora Spec. p. 49. pi. xxxviii. a. 



Tr. tectricibus alarum pulverulentis ; capite collogue violaceo- 

 chalybeis, viridi-circmncinctis ; dorso cuproviridi ; pectore ab- 

 domineque miniaceo-purpureis ; rectricibus ccerulescente viri- 

 dibiis, exterioribus albo ?i/groque fasciolatis. 



Curucui with the wing-coverts powdered j the head and neck 

 violet-steel-colour, bounded by green ; the back coppery-green ; 

 the breast and abdomen reddish -purple ; the tail-feathers blue- 

 green, the outer ones fasciolated with black and white. 



Inhabits Brazil. 



Sp. 7. Tr. sidphureus. Spu', Avium Nova Spec. p. 48.pl. xxxviii. 

 y. l.male; f. 2. female. 



Tr. minor; virescens; capite collo dorso uropi/gioque viridi- 

 relucentibus ; fronte guld femor'ihusque nigris ; tectricibus 

 alarum omnibus nigris, albo-crenulatis ; abdomine sulphur eo ; 

 Cauda cupreo-relucente, subtus nigra, rectricibus trihus ewteriori- 

 bus nigro alboque fasciolatis. Faemina nigra; abdomine 

 crissoque subawantio-sulphureis ; tectricibus alarum nigris, 

 transverse albo-lineolatis ; caudd nigrd, rectricibus externis 

 albo nigroque fasciolatis. 



Small Curucui, greenish, with the head, neck, back, and rump 

 glossy green ; the forehead, throat, and thighs black ; all the 

 wing-coverts black, crenulated with white ; the abdomen sul- 

 phureous ; the tail glossy copper-coloured, beneath black, with 

 its three outer feathers fasciolated with black and white. 

 Female black ; the abdomen and vent of an orangy-sulphur ; 

 the wing-coverts black, transversely lineolated with white ; 



