of specimens in my own collection, which have the usually un-
mis takeable appearance of ( Bogota ’ sldns.
This species may be easily distinguished from the preceding
by-its smaller size, yellow bill and snowy-white under and upper
lesser wing-coverts, and the greater wing-coverts not being edged
with white. ...
3. Monasa nigrifrons (Spix).
Bucco nigrifrons, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. S3, t. 43. fig. 2.
Lypornix unicolor, Wagl..S;A.. sp. 2.
Monasa nigrifrons, (array’s Gen. i/p. 74} Gray, List, of B. M. p. 49; Bp.
Consp. p. 147.
M. nigro-plumbea unieolor: rostro rubro: pedibus nigris.
Long, tota 9 ‘8 ; alse 5:0; caudse 4*7.
Hab. m. vicinitate Parse (Wallace); in sylvis fluminis Amazonum
'. (Spix); Bolivia
The M. aira appears to be replaced upon the Amazons by the
present spècies, which was first discovered by SpixT, It has no
appearance of white upon the wings, the whole plumage being
nearly uniform plumbeous black.
A skin of Mr. Eyton’s isdabelled cBolivia/ sp it jpossiWy ranges
as far as the extreme streams of those tributaries of the Amazon
which flow from that country.
4. Monasa personata, Vieill.
Monasa personata, Vieill. Gal. des Gis. pi. '36-Xl S20) } Enc. Méth. p. 1339.
Bucco leucops, Licht. Verz. cL-Doubl. p. 8(1823).- 1
j---- -alMffons, Spix, Ay. Bras. yol. i. pi. 41 (i824j)-.;.’‘‘i
----- albifrons sive leucops, Spix, l. c. p.-5.3,.
Lypornix leucops, Wagl. S. Av. sp. 3,' -
Capito leucops, Max. Beit. ,iv. 368.
Tamatia leUCopSj Sw.jDrn. Draw. pi. 12.
Monasa leucops, Gray’s Gen. p. 74; Gray, List öf B. M. p. 49} Bp.- Consp.
p. 147.
M. plumbescenti-nigra: facie alba: rostro rubro : pedibus nigris.
Long, tota 11*2; alse 5 * 2 caudse 5*2.
Hdb. in vicinitate Parse (Wallace)J; in campis, provincise Piauhy
(Spix); Brasilia Mer. Orient. (Max.)>^
The three names for this species also were published about
the same time, but I believe Yieillot has the priority. I t is a
very common bird in collections from the Brazils. The Prince
Maximilian of Neuwied met with it frequently during his travels
in South-east Brazil, and gives us the following account of i t :—
“ This fine Tamatia I did not meet with so often as the former
(Malacoptila tor quota). It does not live so near human habitations,
but is found in the vast thickly-wooded districts, where
we obtained many of them. In the summer they live in pairs, in
the cold season singly or in flocks. At times pouring forth close
to us from among the leafy branches their loud peculiar cry>
they astonished the hunters not a little. They are somewhat
less stupid and lonely than the former species. I have often
seen them in motion, especially when several of them were
uttering their loud cries in concert. In their stomachs I found
remains, of bisects. About their nidifleatioh I can give no
information.”
Genus IV. Chelidoptera.
1. Chelidoptera tenebrosa (Pall.).
Ckculus tenebrosiis, Pallas, Neife Nord. Beitr. iii. p. 3 (-1783)} Gm. S. N. i.
p. 417j Lath. Ind. Orn. i.. p. 221.
Monasa tenebrosa, Vieill. Si. D. d’H. N. xxi. 321} Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1339;
Stpph. Zool. xiv. 1-56.'- '
Bucco teAebrosus, Licht.- Verz. p';8.'
]p%pito-tenebrosus, Max. Beit, iv; 372.
•Monasa tenebrio, Temm. PL.CoL,323. fig. 1 (fig; acc.).
Brachypetes tenebrosa, Sw. Class. Birds, ii. 334.
Chelidoptera tenebrosa, Gould, Pr. Z. S_. 1836, p. 81; Gray’s Gen. i. p. 75;
Gray; List of B. M. p. 50; Schomb. Beisen, iii. 720; Bp. Consp.
p. 148., ': ; = '
Lypornix tenebrosa, Sw. Om. Dr. pi. 36; Wagler, S. A. sp. 7.
White-rumped Blade Cuckoo, Lath. Syn. h. 544.
Petit Coucou noir de Cayenne, Buff. PI. Enl. 505 (fig. pess.),
Le Barbacou ct croupign blanc, Le Vail. Ois. de Par. in t. 46.
Ch. nigrsi; ventre castaneo,-; dorso postico et tectricibus alarum
infenoribus .cum crisso albis : rostro pedibusque nigris.
Long, tota 7*5£;alse 4*5; caudse 2*5 (sp. ex Brasil).
„ 6*0 ,, 4 ’1 „ 2*0 (sp. ex Guiana).
» 6|0 „ 3*8 „ 2-0 (sp. ex ins. Trinit.).
Hob. in Brasilia (Max.); fl. Amazon (Wallace); Cayenne; Guiana
(Schomb.); Trinitate ins.
“ This bird,” says Prince Maximilian of Neuwied, “ is not
rare in most provinces of South Brazil, and very common in
many of them. I t is found in certain spots sitting still and
immoveable upon the high isolated branches of the forest trees.
Prom time to time it flies after an insect into the air, and falls
back again to its place like a true Muscicapa. I t is a stupid,
still, melancholy bird, but likes to sit high and not low, and near
the ground, like the other Tamatia. As in form and colour it
rather resembles a swallow, the Brazilians call it Andurinha do
mato—wood-swallow. The resemblance is greatest when the
bird sits upon the ground, for its feet are little adapted for
walking, and it consequently shuffles along like a swallow does.
Its flight is light and undulating. Sitting upon a high point