118 COTINGID^. 



subterminal maxillary notch ; the nostrils are round, placed at the end of the nasal 

 fossa, •which is ill-defined ; the lores are almost, and the area round the eye quite, 

 destitute of feathers. (In T. albitorques both lores and ocular region are fully 

 feathered.) 



The tarsi and toes are strong, the outer toe united at the base to the middle toe for 

 fully the length of the first phalanges. The tail is short and even. The wings rather 

 pointed, the third, fourth, and fifth quills the longest. 



1. Tityra semifasciata. 



Pachyrhynchus semifasciata, Spix, Av. Braz. ii. p. 32, t. 44. f. 2 \ 



Tityra semifasciata, Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 330 ^ 



Tityra per sonata, Jard. & Selb. 111. Orn. i. t. 24'; Moore, P.Z. S. 1859, p. 56*; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 



1859, p. 124 = ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 361 ^ 1870, p. 837'.; 1879, p. 517'; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, 



pp. 285 ", 366 " ; 1864, p. 176 " ; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 252 "; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. 



p. 295"; ix. pp. 116", 204"; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4. p. 28"; Bost. Soc. N. H, ii. 



p. 289"; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 149 ; 1870, p. 199"; Ibis, 1872, p. 318"; Sumiclirast, 



Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 558'°; Natting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 397''; vi. p. 393 '=; 



Boucard, P.Z. S. 1883, p. 448''; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 156"*; Ridgw. 



Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 589 ". 

 Psaris mexicanus, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 41'°. 

 Tityra mexicana, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, pp. 141 ", 297 ''. 

 Psaris tityroides, Less. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 210 ''. 



Supra pallide grisea ; vertice postico et nucha albicantibus ; alls et cauda nigris, hujus rectricum dimidio basaK 

 et apicibus albis ; alarum rectricibus dorso concoloribus ; fronte, capitis lateribus nigris : subtus alba ; 

 pectore et h3'pochondrii8 leviter griseo tinctis : rostri dimidio basali rosaoeo, dimidio apicali nigro, oculorum 

 ambitu quoque rosaoeo, pedibus nigris. Long, tota 8-5, alae 5-0, eandae 3"0, rostri a rictu 1*2, tarsi 1-0. 



5 brunnea ; capita snmmo obscuriore, alarum tectricibus griseo tinctis. (Deser. maris et feminae ex Teapa, 

 Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Kah. Mexico {Salle ^^, Wliite "), Presidio de Mazatlan {Forrer), Mazatlan {Grayson, 

 Bischoff), San Bias ( W. B. Richardson), Sierra Madre de Colima {Xantus), Santiago 

 near Manzanillo, Tolima, and Beltran in Jalisco ( W. Lloyd), Dos Arroyos in Guerrero 

 {Mrs. H. H. Smith), Eeal del Monte [Jenkins ^), State of Vera Cruz {Sumichrast, 

 Ferrari-Perez), Jalapa {de Oca i"), Huatusco and S. Lorenzo near Cordova {F. Ferrari- 

 Perez), Orizaba {Sumichrast), Playa Vicente {Boucard ^, M. Trujillo), Tapana, Sta. 

 Efigenia (<S'Mm2'cAra5#i^), Yucatan ((jawmer), Merida {Schott); British Honduras, 

 Pine-ridges [Leyland *), Cayo Western District and Belize {Blancaneaux) ; Gua- 

 temala, Choctum, San Geronimo, Iguana, Barranco Hondo {0. 8. & F. B. G.); 

 Honduras, San Pedro {G. M. Wliitely), Segovia River {Henderson ^^) ; Nicaragua, 

 Omotepe I. {Nutting ^^), Chontales {Belt ^^) ; Costa Eica, San Jose {v. Frantzius), 

 Guaitil, Barranca {Carmiol), Cache {Rogers), La Palma {Nutting) ; Panama, David 

 {Bridges), Bugaba, Calovevora {ArcS ^% Lion Hill {M'Leannan ^).— South America 

 from Colombia ^ to Bolivia and the Amazons valley i. 



