. A monograph of the jacamars and puff-birds, or families Galbulid and Bucconid . , this feature being restricted in one example to a few specks ofwhite on the forehead. The tail is banded throughout, except on the two middle rectrices, as inB. tectus. We have, unfortunately, as yet, no accounts of the habits of this Puff-bird. The following table gives the localities and dimensions of the examples of this species inmy collection and in that of Messrs. Salvin and Godman:— No. Sex. Mus. Patria. Long, tota, al8&,, caudse, rostri. 1. 6 S. EsmeraldaSj Ecuador {Frasei-). 5-9 2-8 2-2 0-95 2. 6
. A monograph of the jacamars and puff-birds, or families Galbulid and Bucconid . , this feature being restricted in one example to a few specks ofwhite on the forehead. The tail is banded throughout, except on the two middle rectrices, as inB. tectus. We have, unfortunately, as yet, no accounts of the habits of this Puff-bird. The following table gives the localities and dimensions of the examples of this species inmy collection and in that of Messrs. Salvin and Godman:— No. Sex. Mus. Patria. Long, tota, al8&,, caudse, rostri. 1. 6 S. EsmeraldaSj Ecuador {Frasei-). 5-9 2-8 2-2 0-95 2. 6 P. L. S. Nichij Antioquia [Salmon). 6-0 2-6 2-2 1-00 3. 6 Nichi, Antioquia (Salmon). 6-1 2-5 2-2 1-00 4. inc. P. L. S. Panama [MCleawnan). 5-7 2-8 2-3 1-00 5. c? Panama {MCleannan). 5-7 2-7 2-2 1-00 6. $ Panama {MCleannan). 5-7 2-7 2-3 110 7. c? Panama [MCleannan). 5-8 2-7 2-2 1-00 8. 2 Veragua {Arce). 5-2 2-7 ■ 2-2 1-00 The upper figure (Plate XXVII.) is taken from No. 1, the lower figure from No. 2. Sclater, Jac. &. Pufib. PI. ]itiL. BUCCO MACR0DACTYLU5 Ha,Til^a,rt amp. BUCCO MACRODACTYLUS. THE LONG-TOED XXVIII. Cyplws macrodactylus, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 51, t. 39. fig. 2 (1824). Capito cyphos, Wagl. Syst. Av. Capito, sp. 4 (1827). Tamatia macrodactylus. Less. Tr. dOrn. p. 168 (1831). Capito macrodactylus, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 119. Capita cyphos, Tsch. Faun. Per. Aves, p. 259 (1845-46). Bucco macrodactylus. Gray et Mitch, Gen. B. i. p. 74 (1846). Capito macrodactylus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 146 (1850). Bucco macrodactylus, Scl. Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 364 (1854). Bucco macrodactylus, Scl. Syn. Bucc. p. 14 (1854). Cyphos macrodactylus, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg, p. 13 (1854). Bucco macrodactylus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, pp. 136, 196. Bucco macrodactylus, Pelz. Sitz. Ak. Wien, xx. p. 510 (1856). Capito macrodactylus, Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 285 (1856). Bucco macrodactylus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 261. Bucco macrodact
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