PLATYPSARIS. 



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Genns PLATYPSARIS Sclater. 

 Platypsaris Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 74. Type P. aglaiie (Lafr.). 



Fig. 108. — To show the short and peculiar form of the second primary. 



In this genus the bill is keeled, the width at the base is about 

 one-third the length of the exposed culmen, the upper mandible 

 is sharply hooked, and the nostrils are almost covered. The rictal 

 bristles are feebly developed. The region of the eye is feathered. 

 The wing is rounded, the third and fourth primaries longest and 

 equal, the first about equal in length to the fifth. The tail is 

 slightly rounded at the tip and about three-fourths the length of 

 the wing. The feet are slender, the tarsus is about one-third the 

 length of the tail, and the hind toe and claw are almost equal in 

 length to the middle toe and claw. Coloration : male and female 

 entirely different. 



525. Platypsaris minor. 



Querula minor Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 363, 1830 (Cayenne). 

 Sadrostomus minor Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 302 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa) ; 



Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 337, 1888 (Camacusa, Bartica 



Grove). 

 Platypsaris minor Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 315, no. 3214, 



1912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface, including the 

 head, back, wings, and tail, glossy black ; base of scapulars white 

 which forms a more or less concealed patch ; greater upper wing- 

 coverts and flight-quills dark brown, the latter white at the base ; 



