548 
MEGASOOPS. — MEGASTOMA. 
brunneus Thunberg, Dissert. Megarhynchô. — Heine, Journ. Ornitb. 1859 
VII. 344. — Spec, dubia. 
cayanus var. a Tiiunberg, Dissert. Megarhyncho. = Tityra cay ana Jakd. 
cayanus var. ß Thunberg, Dissert. Megarhyncho. = Tityra brasiliensis Gray. 
cayanus var. j Ô Tiiunberg, Dissert. Megarhyncho. — Tityra inquisitor Gray. 
chrysocephalus Heine, Journ. Ornith. 1859. VII. 345. =z Megarhynchus pitan- 
gna Tiiunb. 
chrysocephalus [Costarica. Respubl. aequat. 
Scaphorhynchus chrysocephalus v. TscHUDl, Fauna peruan. 150. Tb. 8. Fig. 1. 
Pitangus chrysocephalus Sclater, Birds Bogota 22. 
Myiodynastes chrysocephalus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859. 43; 1860. 281. 
Jfypermitres chrysocephalus , II. hemichrysus Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 1861. 
246. 247. 
Myiodynastes superciliaris Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. New York 1867. VIII. 470. 
Hypermitres superciliaris Gray, Handl. Birds I. 357. 
chrysogaster Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860. 281. [Respubl. aequat. 
crassirostris Finsch, Bremer Abhandlgn. 1871. II. 329. = Tyrannus crassi- 
rostris Sclat. 
fasciatus Tiiunberg, Dissert. Megarhyncho. — Heine, Journ. Ornith. 1859. 
VII. 342. — Spec, dubia. 
flavus Tiiunberg, Dissert. Megarhyncho. — Saurophagus lictor Gray. 
griseus Thunberg, Dissert. Megarhyncho. — Heine, Journ. Ornith. 1859. 
VII. 344. = Spec, dubia. 
mexicaiius Heine, Journ. Ornith. 1859. VII. 346. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1864. 360. [Mexico. Guatemala. Costarica. 
Scaphorhynchus mexicanus de Lafresnaye, Revue Mag. Zool. 1851. 473. 
pitangua Tiiunberg, Dissert. Megarhyncho. — Heine, Journ. Ornith. 1859. 
VII. 345. [Brasilia. 
Muscicapa tyrannus brasiliensis Brisson, Ornith. II. 40. Tb. 36. Fig. 5. 
Lanius pitangua Linne, Syst. Nat. I. 136. — Buffon, PI. enlum. 212. 
Neinei Azara, Apuntam. Nr. 199. 
Tyrannus pitangua Swainson, Quart. Journ. XX. 270. 
Tyrannus carnivorus Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 847. 
Muscicapa pitangua Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. 54. 
Scaphorhynchus sulphuratus Pz. Wied, Beitr. Natg. Brasil. III. 983. 
Megastoma flaviceps, M. ruficeps, M. atriceps Swainson, two Centur. 285. 
Scaphorhynchus pitangua Strickland, Gray List Genera Birds 41. 
Scaphorhynchus ruficeps Hartlaub, Verz. Mus. Bremen 49. $ 
Scaphorhynchus flaviceps, Sc. atriceps Gray, Genera Birds I. 246. $ juv. 
Megarhynchus chrysocephalus Heine, Journ. Ornith. 1859. VII. 345. 
regius Thonberg, Dissert. Megarhyncho. = Myiodynastes audax Sclat. 
striatus Tiiunberg, Dissert. Megarhyncho. = Tityra brasiliensis Gray. 
sulphuratus Tiiunberg, Dissert. Megarhyncho. == Saurophagus sulphuratus 
Swains. 
MEGASC0PS (Subgen. Scopis) Kaup, Transact. Zool. Soc. 1862. IV. 226. == 
Scops Savg. 
Nostrils on the margin of the cera. First wingfeathcr as long as the seventh 
or tenth, first to fourth wingfeathers emarginated on the inner web. Tarsi fea- 
thered, toes mostly naked. 
Specc: Scops flammeola Kp., Sc. trichopsis Wagl., Sc. asio Gray, Sc. brasiliensis 
Bonap., Sc. atricapillus Cuvier, Sc. rntihis Puch., Sc. Lempigi Bonap., Sc. semitorques Bonap., 
Sc. menadensis Bonap. 
MEGASTOMA (Tyrannidae. — [kzyaç grandis, cïc\xol os) Swainson, Classif. Birds 
1837. II. 225. b=ä Megarhynchus Thunb. 
Habit and general structure of Saurophagus but the bill is very large and 
broad along its whole length. Inner toe shorter than the outer. 
atriceps, flaviceps, ruficeps Swainson, 1. c. = Megarhynchus pitangua Thunb. 
