PITANGUS. 



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Genus PITANGUS Swains. 



Pitangus Swainson, Zool. Journ. iii. p. 165, 1827. 

 ratus (Linn.). 



Type P. sulphu- 



Fig. 83. — Pitangus stilphuratus. 



The species included in this genus are birds of somewhat 

 large size and distinguished chiefly in having a patch of stiffened 

 black bristles on the forehead and in front of each eye. The bill 

 has the culinen keeled, the gonys rounded, the upper mandible 

 sharply hooked, and the width at the base about equal to half the 

 length of the exposed culmen. The wing is rounded, the second, 

 third, and fourth primaries longest and equal, the first about equal 

 in length to the sixth. The tail is square at the tip and about 

 eight-elevenths the length of the wing. The tarsus is propor- 

 tionately short, being slightly shorter in length than the exposed 

 culmen and the hind toe and claw. Coloration: male and female 

 similar. 



Key to the Species, 



A. Throat white in contrast with the rest of 



the under surface. 

 a. Larger ; wing more than 95 mm., tail 



more than 75 mm P. sulpTiuratus, p. 199. 



h. Smaller; wing less than 95 mm., tail 



less than 75 mm P. Zic^or, p. 203. 



B. Throat pale yeUow like the rest of the 



under surface P. parvus,^. 204. 



482. Pitangus sulpliuratus. 



KisKADEE Flycatcher. 



Lanius gulphiiratus Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 137, 1766 (Cayenne). 

 Saurophagus sulpliuratus Gab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 698, 1848, 



