128 COTINGIDiE. 



(Salle \ de Oca^, Edge, M. Trujillo, F. B. G.), Huatusco {Ferrari-Perez), Amula in 

 Guerrero [Mrs. E. H. Smith), Peto, Buctzotz in Yucatan (Gaumer) ; Guatemala, 

 Choctum, Coban, Duenas, Medio Monte, Calderas on the Volcan de Fuego (0. S. 

 & F. B. G.) ; HoNDUKAS, Omoa {Zealand ^^) ; Nicaragua, Greytown (Holland ^^). 



This species, so far as the male is concerned, is exceedingly like the South- American 

 P. atricapillus ; but besides being decidedly smaller, appears never to have the back 

 quite so black as in some individuals of the southern bird. The female may at once 

 be distinguished bv its cinnamon back and black crown. 



P. major has a wide range in Mexico, extending northwards as far as the high 

 ground above Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas, and also occurring in the Sierra Madre 

 del Sur, near the town of Chilpancingo. Sumichrast ^ found it in the State of Vera 

 Cruz in the lowlands, and at various elevations up to an altitude of more than 8000 

 ieet, and we observed that it had a similar range in altitude in Guatemala, where it 

 occurs in the Volcan de Fuego as high as between 7000 and 8000 feet, and at Choc- 

 tum which is less than 1500. It occurs also near the sea-level in Yucatan, and at 

 Omoa in Honduras. It is nowhere common. 



6. Pachyrhamphus albogriseus. (Tab. XLIII. figg. 2 j , 3 ? .) 



Pachyrhamphus albogriseus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 78 ' j Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 347 ' ; 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 199 \ 



Prseeedenti similis, sed dorso cinereo unicolore diversus. 

 $ supra oUvacea, capite summo rufescente. 



Hah. Nicakagua, Corinto (0. S.^) ; Panama, Bugaba, Calovevora (Arce^). — Colombia; 

 Ecuador ; Venezuela. 



This is a smaller species than P. major and may be distinguished by its cinereous 

 back, in which there is no admixture of black ; the female, too, differs in having an 

 olive-coloured back and a red instead of a black crown, so that the two species are 

 , really very distinct. Moreover it would appear that P. albogriseiis takes to a great 

 extent the place of P. major in the more southern portion of our country, and thence 

 passes southwards into the north-western districts of South America. 



The only part of our country where it appears to be at all common is the neighbour- 

 hood of Chiriqui, whence Arce sent us several specimens; our single Nicaraguan 

 example was shot by Salvin in the bush at the back of the seaport town of Corinto. 



Subfam. LIPAUGINM. 



Lipauginm, Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 348. 



The Lipauginse form the first subfamily of Mr. Sclater's second section (B) of the 

 CotingidsB, in which the second primary in the male is normal and not abbreviated as 



