INTRODUCTION:

Precisely the same remark may be made with respect to his new genus Rampxoxantuus for Aulaco-

ramphus prasinus and A. albivitta, inasmuch as they do not in my opinion offer sufficient generic differences

to warrant their separation from the other birds with which I have associated them.

The birds comprising his genus Prrerivorus I consider to belong to three distinct genera. The first
—piperivora—is a true Selenidera—the fourth, Bailloni—an Andigena; the second and third—zwridis and
inscriptus—might perhaps be separated ; but in that case ezdis would stand alone in one genus and
inscriptus with Humboldti in another, for which the term GraMMARHYNcHUs might be an appropriate

appellation.