ICO 
EEGERHINUS MEGARHYNCHUS. 
RegerUnus megarhynchus Des Murs, Casteln. Voy. Zool. Ois. 1855, 9, pi. 1. 
Cymmdis megarhynchus Gray, Hand List, i, i869,23.— Scl. & Salv. Nam. Neotrop. 
1873,122. 
Leptodon megarhynchus Sharpe, Cat. Acc. Br. Mas. 1874,332. 
Hob. —Peru and Bolivia (Sharpe). 
Nearly adult .—Above slaty blue. Clearer on the head and darker 
on the back ; wing-coverts brown, margined with deep ocher (evidently 
the remains of young plumage); quills brown, shaded externally with 
ashy, the secondaries clearer brown, with rufous-white tips ; under sur¬ 
face of wings white at base, greyish-white for the apical half, all the 
quills barred above and below with dark brown; lower back, rump, and 
upper tail-coverts blackish-brown, the latter barred near the base and 
tipped with white; tail alternately banded with black and ashy-brown, 
and tipped with white, the black bands being much the broadest, and 
between them and the ashy bands a faint indication of a white line; 
throat slaty-blue, like the sides of the face ; rest of the under surface 
slaty-blue, banded narrowly with white ; under wing- and tail-coverts 
white, with only a few nearly obsolete indications of narrow brownish 
cross-bars; bill dark liorn-black, yellowish on under mandible; feet deep 
yellow, nails black. Total* length 19 inches, culmen 2 . 5 , wing 12 . 3 , tail 
9.2. tarsus 1.6.” —(Sharpe, l. c.) 
This species we have not seen. It is apparently more like R. icilsoni 
than R. uncinatus , but is evidently very distinct from both. 
