MACHAERIRHYNCHUS. — MACHETORNlS. 
513 
alciuus Schlegel, Handleid. Ois. Tb. I. Fig. G. — Westermann, Bijdr. Dierkde 
I. Fig. 29. c. Fig. [Malacca. Damara. 
Stringonyx Anderssoni Gurney, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865. 618; Transact. 1867. 
VI. 117. Tb. 29. 
Machaerhamphus Anderssoni Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871. 500. 
MACBAERIRHYIVCHUS (Myiagrinae. — ^a/aipa culter, pu^C rostrum) 
— Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. XVIII. 277. 
Bill rather shorter than the head, very much depressed and widely dilated, 
causing it to assume a lancet like form; culmen elevated, forming a distinct ridge 
down the centre of the upper mandible and continued over its extremity in the 
form of a sharp hook, under mandible convex; tomiae straight, the upper very 
slightly overlapping the lower; rictus beset with fine but stiff bristles; nostrils 
oblong, partly covered with an operculum and seated in large and deep depressions ; 
wings short and somewhat rounded, the first quill very short, the second much 
shorter than the third, the fifth the longest; tail moderate in length, distinctly gra- 
duated, the outer feather being little more than half the length of the central ones; 
tarsi moderate in length and sligth in structure; toes feeble , particularly the anterior 
ones; the two outer toes equal in length and united from the base to the first 
joint; hind toe rather long; claws hooked and very sharp. — 4 Specc. 
albifrons Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861. 429. Tb. 43. Fig. 1. [Waigiu. My sol. 
flaviventer Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. XVIII. 277. Tb. 33. [Cap York. 
nigri pectus Schlegel, nederl. Tijdschr. Dierkde 1871. IV. 33. [Nova Guinea. 
xauthogenys Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858. 176. [Aru. 
MACHAEROPTERUS (Ampelidae. — p.a)(aipa culter, rcrspov ala) Bonaparte, Consp. 
Vol. anis. 1854. 6. — Sclater, Ibis 1862. IV. 175. = Pipra Leach. 
deliciosus Sclater, Ibis 1862. IV. 176. Tb. 6. = Pipra deliciosa Sclat. 
pyrocephalus Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. anis 6. = Pipra pyrocephala Sclat. 
regulus Cabanis, Mus. Heine. II. 94. = Pipra regulus Hahn. 
strigilatus Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. anis. 6. = Pipra regulus Hahn. 
striolatus Cabanis, Mus. Heine. II. 94. = Pipra striolata Bonap. 
MACHETES (Tringidae. — fj.ocx.7)T7]<; pugnator) Cuvier, Règne anira. (1817) 1829. 
I. 527. = Philomachus Moehr. 
Sont de vraies maubechès par le port et par le bec; seulement la palmure 
entre leurs doigts extérieurs est à peu près aussi considérable que dans les cheva- 
liers etc. 
alticeps Brehm, Vögel Deutschi. 670. = Philomachus pugnax Möhr. 
minor Brehm, Naumannia 1855. V. 293. = Philomachus pugnax Möhr. 
planiceps Brehm, Vögel Deutschi. 671. — Philomachus pugnax Möhr. 
pugnax Cüvier, Règne anim. I. 527. = Philomachus pugnax Möhr. 
MACHE TO ROTS (Tyrannidae. — [xapF^C pugnans, épviç avis). — Gray, 
Genera Birds 1847. I. 245. 
Synon.: Chrysolophus Svvains. 
Bill rather long, with the culmen sloping and the sides much compressed to 
the tip, which is slightly emarginated; the lateral margins slightly curved and the 
gonys long ascending; the gape furnished with long slender bristles; the nostrils 
basal and lateral, with the opening small, rounded and hartly» covered by the 
projecting plumes. Wings long, with the first three quills graduated and pointed, 
the fourth and fifth equal and longest. Tail moderate and rounded. Tarsi longer 
than the middle toe, and covered with broad transverse scales. Toes moderate, 
the outer toe longer than the inner and united at its base; the hind toe long and 
rather strong; claws moderate and slightly curved except that of the hind toe, 
which is long and strong. — 1 Spec. 
rixosa Gray, Genera Birds I. 245. — Burmeister, Syst. Uebers. Th. Bras. II. 
514. « [Brasilia. Bolivia. Argentina. 
Suiriri Azara, Apuntam. II. 148. 
Tyrannus rixosus Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 852. 
Muscicapa Joazeiro Spix, Aves Brasil. II. 17. Tb. 23, 
Giebel , Thesaurus. II, 33 . 
