BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 769 



Genus RHODINOCICHLA Hartlaub. 



Rhodinociehla Hartlaub, Journ. fur Orn., i, Jan., 1853, 33. (Type, FirrnariuR 

 roseus Lesson.) 



Rhodinocincla (lapsus') Reiciiexbach, Handta. Spec. Orn., no. x, Scansorije (Sit- 

 ting), Aug. 1, 1853, 148, 201. 



Ehododnda (emendation) Sundevall, Av. Meth. Tent., 1872, 13. 



Cichlalopia Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 6. (Type, TnnhiHvulpimis 

 Hartlaub, = /'VrnaWtw roseus Lesson. ) 



Very large Mniotiltidse(?) with bill nearly as long as head, stout 

 (depth at nostrils equal to nearly half the distance from nostril to tip 

 of maxilla), distinctly notched; nostril nearly circular, with very slight 

 superior membrane; I'ictal bristles obsolete; middle toe with claw nearly 

 equal to tarsus; wing excessively rounded, the outermost (ninth) pri- 

 mary much shorter than secondaries, the eighth shorter, or at least not 

 longer, than first, the seventh, sixth, fifth, and fourth longest and 

 nearly equal; tail about equal to wing, much rounded; upper parts, 

 sides, and flanks plain sooty blackish or slate color; superciliary stripe 

 and median under parts rose red in adult males, tawny in adult females. 



Bill nearly as long as head, moderately compressed, rather stout; 

 culmen straight for basal half (appoximately) then graduallj' decurved 

 to the distinotlj' but not abruptly uncinate tip, distinctly but not sharply 

 ridged basally ; maxillary tomium nearly straight for most of its length, 

 ■distinctly notched subterminally; gonys very faintly convex. Nostril 

 circular, in anterior end of nasal fossee, without superior operculum or 

 membrane, except posteriorly. Rictal bristles obsolete. "Wing short, 

 excessively rounded; outermost (ninth) primary much shorter than 

 secondaries; eighth shorter (or at least not longer) than first, the sev- 

 enth, sixth, fifth, and fourth longest and nearly equal; wing-tip about 

 half as long as exposed culmen. Tail about as long as wing, much 

 rounded, the rectrices very broad, with rounded tips. Tarsus about 

 one-third as long as wing, stout, its scutella indistinct on outer side; 

 middle toe, with claw, nearly as long as tarsus; lateral toes equal, their 

 claws' falling short of base of middle claw; hallux about as long as lat- 

 eral toes, slender, its claw much shorter than the digit; basal phalanx 

 of middle toe united for most of its length to outer toe, for about half 

 its length to inner toe. 



Coloration. — Upper parts, sides of head, sides, and flanks plain 

 sooty blackish or slate color; superciliary stripe, malar region, and 

 under parts (except laterally) rose red in adult males, tawny in females; 

 young said to have the under parts mottled." 



Mdification. — U nkno wn . 



'Evidently a slip of the memory, or the pen, since Hartlaub is cited, as above, as 

 authority for the name. 

 ^Salvinand Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 38 

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