548 CAPITONIDA. 
forms, such as Trachyphonus, in the Capitonine. In the latter Tetragonops is assigned 
a place to itself, Poyonorhynchus being at the opposite end of the arrangement. 
Capito is associated with Megalema, Trachyphonus, &c., but has a separate section 
to itself. 
When the anatomy of these genera has been more fully worked out we should look 
for characters to connect Capito with Tetragonops, so as to remove these American 
forms from the Old World members of the family *. 
CAPITO. 
Capito, Vieillot, Anal. p. 27 (1816); Marshall, Mon. Capit. pp. xxxi, xxxvi; Shelley, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. xix. pp. 15, 107. 
Two of the fifteen species of Capito recognized by Capt. Shelley are found within the 
limits of our region—one, the very peculiar C. maculicoronatus of Panama and the 
adjoining State of Antioquia; the other, C. salvini of Panama and Costa Rica, a close 
ally of the more widely ranging southern form C. bourcieri. 
The tomia of the maxilla in Capito is even and without tooth or notch near the 
extremity, the point of the mandible fits into that of the maxilla in the ordinary way. 
A few strong black bristles extend far over the nostrils, others spread forwards from 
the chin. The wings are short, close-fitting, and rounded; the tail short and much 
rounded. In coloration the sexes differ greatly—so much so, that the males and 
females of several of the species have been treated as distinct species until their true 
relationship was recognized. 
1. Capito maculicoronatus. 
Capito maculicoronatus, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 300'; Scl. Ibis, 1862, p. 1, t.1°; Scl. & Salyv. 
P.Z.8. 1864, p. 866°; 1879, p. 537*; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 157°; Marshall, Mon. Capit. 
p- 153, t. 61°; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xix. p. 109’. 
Nitente niger, pileo medio plaga maculosa ornato, plumis singulis albicantibus saturate fusco limbatis: subtus 
albus, cervicis lateribus et pectore aurantio suffusis, hypochondriis nigro guttatis et plaga elongata lete 
aurantiaca notatis; rostro corneo ; pedibus nigricantibus. Long. tota 6-8, ale 3:1, caude 2-0, rostri a 
rictu 1-1, tarsi 0°9. 
2 mari similis, gutture et pectore toto nigris. (Descr. maris et femine ex Lion Hill, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Panama, Santiago de Veraguas (Arcé>), Lion Hill (Mf Leannan | 2 3).—Conomsta 4. 
This remarkable species, which has no near allies, was discovered by M‘Leannan on 
the Isthmus of Panama, and was described by Lawrence in 1861 in his first paper on 
the birds of that region’. Subsequently specimens of both sexes carefully dissected 
were obtained by M‘Leannan and Galbraith 2, and by them our collections have been 
supplied. Arcé, too, met with this Barbet near Santiago de Veraguas ®, but beyond 
7 Since the above paragraph was in type Mr. Beddard has published a note on this subject [P. Z. 8. 1896, 
p. 557], in which he says that a possible means of differentiating the Old World from the New World Barbets 
lies in the pterylosis of the spinal tract. 
