572 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



bb. Bill shorter (115 to 140 mm.); apical portion of maxilla and mandible deep 

 purplish blood-red. Rhamphastos brevicarinatus $ , 9 • 



aa. Throat black or deep cerulean-blue. 



b. Throat black; breast and abdomen reddish-yellow, with red or black 

 bands, or else almost entirely black below. 

 c. Almost entirely black below; back and wings green; flanks yellow; 

 thighs chestnut. 

 d. Crown black; auriculai region lemon-yellow. 



Selenidera spectabilis $ . 

 dd. Crown burnt-umber-brown; auriculars black. 



Selenidera spectabilis 9 • 



cc. Only throat black below; whole head black; a brown band across 



nape; back dark bluish green; upper tail-covei ts red and lower 



parts mainly reddish-yellow; thighs dark chestnut-brown. 



d. A narrow black band across upper part of abdomen (sometimes 



mixed with red (10 to 18 mm. wide). 



Pteroglossus torquatus, $ , 9 • 



dd. A black blotch in centre of reddish-yellow breast and a wide 



crimson band across abdomen (sometimes mixed with black). 



Pteroglossus frantzii, $ , 9 • 



bb. Throat blue; dark grass-green above, yellowish grass-green below; vent 



and under tail-coverts chestnut. Aulacorhamphus cceruleigularis, $ , 9 • 



304. Rhamphastos brevicarinatus Gould. 



Rhamphastos brevicarinatus Gould, Monogr. Rhamph., ed. 2, 1854, pi. 3. — 

 Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 103 (Costa Rica). — Sclater, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, 126 (Turrialba [Arce], C. R. [Carmiol 

 and Frantzius]). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 553 

 (Nicaragua and Panama). 



Rhamphastos approximans Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 1862, 333 (Costa Rica). — 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 128, 129 (San Jose [Frantzius], An- 

 gostura, Dota, and Grecia [J. Carmiol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869, 

 362 (Grecia, Angostura, Dota Mts., Candelaria Mts., Aguacate Mts., Ma- 

 chuca, Orosi, Tucurriqui). 



Rhamphastos carinatus Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 123 (Cartago, 

 Naranjo de Cartago, Turrialba). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 445 (Miravalles). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Guayabo (Ridgway and Zeledon), Bonilla 



(Ridgway and Alfaro) (Basulto). 

 Bangs Collection : Tenorio, Juan Vifias (Underwood). 

 Fleming Collection : Miravalles and La Gloria (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Miravalles, Guacimo, Cariblanco de 



Sarapiqui. 

 Carnegie Museum : Guaitil, Guacimo, Cuabre, El Hogar, Miravalles, 



Juan Vifias (Carriker). Eight skins. 



