. A monograph of the jacamars and puff-birds, or families Galbulid and Bucconid . te a natural one. On the whole, as I have statedat a recent meeting of the Zoological Society, it seems necessary to give it an independentstatus as the type of a new genus to be placed between Malacoptila and Nonnula, differing fromthe former by its short tail, and from the latter by its shorter and stronger bill. In generalstyle of colour MicromonacJia lanceolata, as I propose to call it, is also conspicuously differentfrom all other members of the family. The following is a list of the specimens of this specie
. A monograph of the jacamars and puff-birds, or families Galbulid and Bucconid . te a natural one. On the whole, as I have statedat a recent meeting of the Zoological Society, it seems necessary to give it an independentstatus as the type of a new genus to be placed between Malacoptila and Nonnula, differing fromthe former by its short tail, and from the latter by its shorter and stronger bill. In generalstyle of colour MicromonacJia lanceolata, as I propose to call it, is also conspicuously differentfrom all other members of the family. The following is a list of the specimens of this species in my own collection and that ofMessrs. Salvin and Godman :— ffo. Sex. Mus. Patria. Long, tota, alsB, caudae, rostri 1. — P. L. S. Sarayacu, Ecuador {Buckley). 4-9 2-5 1-8 1-0 2. — P. L. S. Sarayacu, Ecuador {Buckley). 4-7 2-5 1-7 10 3. — Sarayacu, Ecuador {Buckley). 4-9 2-5 1-7 10 4. — Sarayacu, Ecuador {Buckley). 4-8 2-5 1-7 1-0 These four examples are very nearly similar. The figure (Plate XLIV.) is taken from No. 1. Sclaler, Jsu:.& J hih- I NONNULA CINERACEA Hanhaxt .imp ■ NONNULA NUBECULA. THE EED-BEEASTED XLV. Fig. 1. Bucco ruhecula, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 51, t. 39. fig. 1 (1824). Monaca ])haioleucos, Temm. PI. Col. 323. fig. 2 (1825). Lyjjornix nubecula, Wagl. Syst. Av. Lypornix, sp. 6 (1827). Cuculus rufalhinus, Temm., Cuv. Eegn. An. i. p. 455 (1829). Monasa rubecula, Less. Tr. dOrn. p. 157 (1831). Monasaphaioleucos, Temm. Tabl. Meth. p. 55 (1836). Lypornix rubicula, Sw. B. Brazil, t. 35 (1841). Monasa rubecula^ Gray et Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 74 (1846). Monasa rubecula, Gray, List of Fiss. B. M. p. 50 (1848). Monasa rubecula, Bp. Consp. i. p. 147 (1850). Nonnula rubecula, Scl. P. Z. S. 1853, p. 124. Malacoptila rubecula, Scl. Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 479 (1854). Malacoptila rubecula, Scl. Syn. Bucc. p. 19 (1854). Scotocharis ruhecula, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). Wonnula rubecu
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