120 COTINGIDiE. 



rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, tofca 7-0, alae 4-3, caudae 2-5, rostri a rictu 2-35, tarsi 0-95. (Descr. maris 

 ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 

 5 supra pallide brunnea, fronte et capitis lateribas rufesoentibus, aliter mari similis. (Descr. feminae ex 

 Oaxaca, Mexico. Mus. Brit.) 



Eab. Mexico, Sochiapa [M. Trujillo), Playa Vicente [Boucard % hot region of Vera 

 Cruz {Svmichrast^ Teapa {Mrs. H. H. Smith), Tizimin in Northern Yucatan 

 ( Gaumer) ; British Hondueas {Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Peten [Leyland ^), 

 Choctum {0. S. & F. D. G.); HONDURAS, San Pedro {G. M. Whitely i^), Segovia 

 River {Henderson ^^) ; Nicaragua, Greytown {Holland ^) ; Costa Eica, Bebedero 

 {Arce), La Palma (Nutting ^% Pacuar {Carmiol 7) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, 

 Bugaba {ArcS ^^), Lion Hill {M'Leannan *). — South America from Colombia to 

 Ecuador and Peru ^. 



The name T. albitorques was applied by Du Bus to Peruvian specimens \ and the bird 

 from southern localities seems to be strictly conspecific with that of Central America and 

 Mexico, to which the name T. fraseri has sometimes been applied i". Females differ 

 a good deal in the intensity of the brown colouring of the back, which is sometimes 

 almost replaced by grey of a darker shade than that of the male, but none of them 

 possess the spotted mantle found in T. inquisitor. 



A young bird from Bugaba, marked as a female, has the crown rufous like the sides 

 of the head, the subterminal band of the tail is almost broken into spots on the central 

 feathers. T. alhitorques is easily distinguished from T. inquisitor not only by the 

 coloration of the tail, but also by its white instead of black ear-coverts; the female, 

 too, has the mantle spotted with black. Besides these two forms there are two others 

 which cannot be satisfactorily placed with either of them. One, which we describe 

 below as T. pelzelni *, was obtained in Matto Grosso by Natterer, and more recently by 

 Mr. Herbert H. Smith ; this has the tail of T. alhitorques, but the black ear-coverts 

 of T. inquisitor. The other, which we propose to call T. huckleyif, has the tail of 

 T. inquisitor, and the white ear-coverts of T. albitorques, moreover the lower back of 

 this bird is much whiter than that of any of its allies. 



Tityra albitorques, though a much rarer bird than T. semifasciata, has a very similar 

 range, but it appears to be absent from Western Mexico and Western Guatemala, and 



* Tityra pelzelni. 



Tityra alhitorques, Pelz. Orn. Eras. p. 120 (neo Du Bus). 



T. aTbitorqui aflSnis et Cauda eodem modo fasciata, auricularibus nigris sicut in T. i^iquisitore differt. 



Hob. Brazil, Prov. Matto Grosso (Natterer, H. H. Smith). 



t Tityra buckleyi. 



T. inquisitori affinis et cauda nigra basi tantum alba, auricularibus albis sicut in T. alhitorqiie doiso imo pure 

 albo quoque distinguenda. 



Hah. Ecuador orientalis, Tanayacu (C. Buckley). 



