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Long, tota l.'VO, alae 'A'8, caudne 6*5. 



Ilab. In Brnsil. Boreali, Para, et fl. Ainazonum. 



Ofjs. Siniilis U. paradisece, sed major et pileo antico albescente 



fll!=CO. 



It is not without hesitation that I separate this bird from the 

 former. I have seen many examples of it from North Brazil, and 

 have always remarked that they differ from the Cayenne U.puradisea 

 in size and in the whiteness of the forehead. Mr. Wallace brought 

 specimens from the neighbourhood of Para, whence I believe came 

 also my type, which I purchased in Hamburg. I may remark 

 that there are. many other corresponding species of birds in Cayenne 

 and Brazil, of which the distinctness is generally admitted (such as 

 Pteroglossus aracari andTFiedi, Caryothraustes cayanensis and brasi- 

 liensis, and Piprites chlorion and chloris), which depend upon differ- 

 ences similar to, or perhaps less than, those between Urogalba 

 2Jaradisea and V. mnazonum. 



Genus 3. Brachygalba, Bp. 



1. ino7'nata, Sclater, Synopsis, p. 7- sp. 10. Brachygalba albi- 

 ventris, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zygodact., nee Cuv. 



To the localities add : Quixos in rep. Equat. (Sir W. Jardine), and 

 Angostura on the Orinoco (Mus. Kiliens.). 



The female has the belly rufous instead of white. This species is 

 certainly not the albiventer of Cuvier, that name having been applied 

 by him to Le Vaillant's figure, Supp. II. (cited by Cuvier, insuffi- 

 ciently perhaps, but not incorrectly, by the number of the page, 46), 

 and consequently a synonym of Vieillot's leucogastra, as placed by 

 me in my Synopsis (see Cuvier s Begn. An. (1829) i. p. 448). I 

 had supposed G. albigularis of Spix, and not this species, to be the 

 type oi Brachygalba, Bp., because it stood first in the list. When 

 the creator of a genus gives neither generic characters nor type, the 

 only rule to go by is to take the^rs^ species given as the type species. 



2. Brachygalba melanosterna, Sclater, sp. nov. 

 Snpramgricanti-fusca ; subtus nigra ; mento albido : ventre medio 



alba : alls caudaque cenescentibns : rostro albo. 



Hab. Goyaz in imp. Brasiliensi (Behn) ; Guaravos in Bolivia 

 (d'Orb.)? 



I observed a specimen of this species in the collection of Professor 

 Behn, at Kiel. It closely resembles the preceding, but has the 

 breast quite black and the bill white. It was brought by the owner 

 from the province of Goyaz, in the interior of Brazil. D'Orbigny's 

 specimen, mentioned in my Synopsis, page 7, probably also belongs 

 to this species. 



I have nothing further to say concerning Jacamaralcyon and Jaca- 

 merops. The Galbuloides Boersi is probably a fictitious bird. Spe- 

 cimens of Galbalcyrhynchus in the Paris Museum were brought by 

 MM. Castelnau and Devillefrom Pebas, on the Upper Amazon ; and 

 on^ of these birds, in the collection of Ilerr Kalckmann of Ham- 

 burg, was procured in the neighbourhood of Pernambuco in Brazil. 



