. 552 EHAMPHASTID^. 



EHAMPHASTOS. 



Rhamphastos, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 150 (1766) ; Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xix. p. 124. 



The genus Bhamphastos contains fourteen species, so far as is at present known, 

 which are distributed over the whole of the low-lying heavily forested districts of the 

 Neotropical region, from Southern Mexico to the confines of Argentina. Three species 

 occur within our limits, viz. R. carinatus and its close ally B. Irevicarinatus — the 

 former with a more northerly range, extending from Honduras through Eastern 

 Guatemala to the middle of the Mexican State of Vera Cruz ; the latter ranges from 

 Eastern Nicaragua through Costa Eica and Panama, and just enters Northern Colombia. 

 The third species is B. tocard, which is found from Eastern Nicaragua to Colombia 

 and Ecuador. 



Bhamphastos is the most distinct of the genera of Ehamphastidse : the bill is larger, 

 the proxiiiial edge of the maxilla runs nearly evenly across the forehead ; the nostrils 

 are completely hidden on the inside of the margin of the covering of the bill — -in all 

 the other genera they are more or less exposed. 



1. Rhamphastos carinatus. 



Rhamphastos pisdvorus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 151 ^? 



Rhamphastos carinatus, Sw. Zool. 111. i. t. 45 * ; Wagl. Syst. Av. fol. 1, p. 3 ' ; Gould, P. Z. S. 1834, 

 p. 73*5 Mon. Rhamph. t. 7, ed. 2, t. 2 = ; Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 108"; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, 

 p. 308"; 1859, pp. 368 ^ 388"; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xix. p. 125" ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, 

 p. 59"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 135"; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 837"; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. 

 p. 238 " ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 455 '° ; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 163 " ; 

 Salv. Ibis," 1889, p. 373 " ; 1890, p. 88 ". 



Rhamphastos poRcilorhynchus, Licht. Preis-Verlz. Mex. Vog. p. 1 (c/. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 54)". 



Niger, cervice postica saturate rufo tincta ; tectrieibus supracaudalibus albis : subtus gutfcure toto luteo postice 

 coccineo ailguste limbato, tectrieibus subcaudalibus coccineis ; roatro (ave sicco) nigro, apice rubido, maxilla 

 ad medium, tomia et culmine flavida ; pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota circa 18-0, alse 8-0, caudse 6*5, rostri 

 a rictu 5-0, tarsi 1*8. (Descr. feminse ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



(J feminse similis, forsan paulo major. 



Hah. Mexico* {Beppe ^^, le Strange), Misantla, Colipa, Hacienda de los Atlixcos {F. D. G.), 

 Jalapa [de Oca^), Kio Juan Martin, Rio Eancho Nuevo, Santana i^, Hacienda 

 Tortugas, Vega del Casadero, San Lorenzo near Cordova, Alvarado {Ferrari'Perez), 

 Cordova {SalU '', Sumichrast ^*), Cosamaloapam, Uvero (Sumichrast i*), Atoyac 

 (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Vera Cruz ( W. B. Bichardson), Playa Vicente (Boucard % 

 Teapa (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Northern Yucatan (G. F. Gaumer^% Meco I. (G. F. 

 Gaumer^'^ ^^); British Honduras, Orange Walk (G. F. Gaumer), Belize (Blanca- 

 neaux) ; Guatemala, Choctum, sources of Eio de la Pasion, Lanquin, Izabal 

 {0.S.& F. L. G.), Eio Dulce (0. S.^^); Honduras (Byson^'^, Leyland "), San 

 Pedro (G.Jf. Whitely^^). 



It is quite possible that Linnaeus's name Bhamphastos pisdvorus ^ was applied to this 



