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Show KO REGERHIXUS MEGARHYNCBUS. Regerhinus megarhynchus DES MURS, Casteln. Voy. Zool. Ois. 18r> 5, 9, pi. 1. Cymindi8 megarhynchus GRAY, Hand List, i, i369,28.- SCL. & SALV. Nora. Neotrop. 1873,122. Leptodon megarhynchus SUARPE, Cat. Ace. Br. Mns. 1874.332. Hah.- 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 surface 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 horn- black, yellowish on uuder mandible; feet deep yellow, nails black. Total length 19 inches, cnlmen 2.5, wing 12.3, tail 9.2. tarsus 1.6."-( SHARPE, I c.) This species we have not seen. It is apparently more like R. iciteou't than B. uncinatus, but is evidently very distinct from both. |