A monograph of the jacamars and puff-birds, or families Galbulid and Bucconid

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Identifier: monographofjacam00scla (find matches)
Title: A monograph of the jacamars and puff-birds, or families Galbulid and Bucconid
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913
Subjects: Bucconidae Jacamars
Publisher: London, Published for the author by R.H. Porter (etc.)
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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one of which is in my collection. Natterer notes the iris as brown, andthe legs and feet as olive-grey. In the preserved skins the latter are rather of a pale dirtybrown. In the stomach Natterer found remains of insects. In Upper Amazonia M. rufa has been obtained by several travellers. Besides Poeppig,whom I have already mentioned in connexion with this species, Mr. E. Bartlett procuredexamples at Sarayacu on the Ucayali, and at Santa Cruz on the Huallaga, and Jelski at Mon-terico, in Central Peru. The last-mentioned collector records the colour of the iris as rougede sang *. The following is a list of the specimens of this species now before me :— Patria. Long, tota, Para (Wallace). 6-6 Upper Amazons. 70 Upper Amazons (E. Bartlett). 72 The figure (Plate XXXVIII.) and description are taken from No. 2. * Taczanowski, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 548. No. Sex. Mus. 1. 2 P. L. S 2. — P. L. S 3. — S.-G. alae, caudfB, rostri. 3-5 2-6 11 3-5 2-6 1-2 3-4 2-7 1-2 Sclater, Jac &Puf f t XXXIX .
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J. GKculema-nslith- Hajihart inrp MALACOPTILA TORQUATA. MALACOPTILA TOEQUATA. THE BANDED SOFT-WING.PLATE XXXIX. JBucco torquafus, Hahn u. Kiister, Voeg. aus Asien, Lief. xiii. p. 2, t, 5 (1822). Buccofuscus, Licht. Verz. d. Doubl. p. 8 (1823). Bucco striatus, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 52, t. xl. fig. 2 (1824). Monasa fusca, Bp. Journ. Acad. Philadelph. iv. p. 370 (1825). Lypornix torgiiata (adulta), Wagl. Syst. Av. Lypornix, sp. 4 (1827). Capito fuscus. Max. Beitr. iv. p. 364 (1832). Capito striatus, Dubois, Orn. Gal. p. 34, t. 22 (1839). Lypornix striata, Sw. Orn. Dr. pi. 34 (1841). Bucco striatus, Hahn, Orn. Atlas, Bucco, no. 5 (1841). Monasa fusca (part.), Gray et Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 74 (1846). Monasa fusca, DuBus, Bull, Acad. Brux. xiv. pt. 2, p. 107 (1847). Monasa fusca. Gray, List of Fiss. B. M. p„ 49 (1848). Monasa fuscus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 147 (1850). Monasa torquata, Strickl. Contr. to Orn. 1852, p. 43. Malacoptila torquata, Scl. Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 475 (1854). Malacopt

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