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C[ryhelits] martiOABAjna and Ssifis, Mus. Hern., ii, Nov., 1859, 112, part (Colom- 

 bia). 



Urospatha martii Salvadori, Atti Roy. Accad. Torino, iv, 1868, 179 (Costa Rica) — 

 BoTTCAED, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1878, 49 (San Carlos, Costa Rica; notes, 

 etc.).— ScLATER and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 534 (Remedios 

 and Nichi, Antioquia, Colombia). — Zeled6n, Proc. F. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 

 1885, 109 (Costa Rica); Anal. Mixs. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 119 (Naranjo 

 de Cartago and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — Shabpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Brit. 

 Mus., xvii, 1892, 314, part (Chontales, Nicaragua; Angostura, Costa Rica; 

 Veragua, Panama; Remedios, Colombia). — ^Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xvi, 1893, 510 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua). — Salvadori and Festa, 

 Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 1900, 18 (Foreste del Rio Peripa, w. Ecua- 

 dor).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 17 (Loma del Leon, 

 Panama). — Carrikbr, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 495 (Caribbean low- 

 lands of Costa Rica, up to 2,000 ft.; habits). 



[Urospatha] martii Sclateb and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 102, part. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 76, part. 



Baryphtheng'us martii Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 58, 

 July, 1895, 462, part (La Libertad, etc., Nicaragua; San Carlos, etc., Costa 

 Rica; Santa Fe, Santiago de Veragua, Calobre, etc., Panama). 



Momotus semiru/us Sclatee, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., v, Nov., 1853, 489 (Santa 

 Marta, Colombia, and Rio Javarri; coll. Brit. Mus.); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1855, 136 (Bogota, Colombia); 1857, 254 (monogr.). — Sohlegbl, Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, Momoti, 1863, 5 (Bogota). — Sclatee and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1864, 363 (Lion Hill, Panama). 



[Baryphomis] semirufus Bonapaete, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 317 (Consp. 

 Volucr. Anisod., 1854, 8). 



UrospatlM martii semirufa'R&.'RTER'c, Novit. Zool., v, 1898, 497 (Chimbo, Paramba, 

 and Cacbavi, n. w. Ecuador, 500-3,500 ft.; crit.). 



U[rospatha\ m{artii\ aemirufa Hellmate, Novit. Zool., xiv, 1907,403, in text (w. 

 Ecuador; Bogota; Costa Rica). 



Genus ELECTRON Gistel. 



Cryptieus (not of Latreille, 1817) Swainson, Classit. Birds, ii, 1837, 338. (Type 



Momotus platyrhynchus Leadbeater.) 

 Electron" Gistel, Naturgesch. des Tbierreichs ftir bohere Scbulen, 1848, p. viii. 



(New name to replace Cryptieus "Bonaparte (Vogel a. BraaU), " i. e., Swainson, 



preoccupied.) 

 Prionirhyndius (not of Jacquinot and Lucas, 1854) Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1857, 256. (Type, Momotus platyrhynchus Leadbeater.) 

 Prionomis 6 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 57, May, 1895, 



454 and sig. 59*, July, 1895, 467 (ex Sclatee, manuscript). (New name to 



replace Prionirhynchus Sclater, preoccupied.) 



Medium-sized Momotidse (length about 300 mm.) with the bill very 

 broad, depressed, decurved, and conspicuously carinate, the sides of 

 maxilla next to the median ridge deeply concave or hollowed out; 

 width of bill at nostrils equal to nearly haK the distance from nostril to 

 tip of maxilla ; middle rectrices less than one-third longer than next pair, 

 the webs denuded subterminally for less than length of culmen, some- 

 times not denuded, but merely contracted; no supercihary tufts, and 

 without brightly colored feathers or black patch on throat. 



'^"HXeKzpov, something bright and beaming. (Richmond.) 

 J> Upliov, a saw; Spv<c, bird. (Richmond.) 



