360 Mr. P. L. Sclater on the Fissirostral family Bucconidse. 



Its range is from Guiana soutliwards, as far as the banks of 

 the Amazon, where Mr. Wallace collected specimens. 



C. Chaunornis, G. R. Gray. 



7. BUCCO TAMATIA, Gm. 



Barhu a ventre tachet^ de Cayenne, Buff. PI. Enl. 746. fig. 1. 



Bucco tamatia, Gra. S. N. i. 405; Lath. Ind. Ora. i. p. 202; Vieill. Gal. 



des Ois. pi. 34 ; Enc. Meth. p. 1421 ; Licht. Verz. d. Doubl. p. 8 ; 



Schomb. Reiseu, iii. p. 719 ; Gray's Gen. p. 74 ; Gray's List of B. M. 



p. 48. 

 Capito tamatia, Wagl. Syst. Av. sp. 6 ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. 156; Temm. 



Tabl. Meth. p. 41. ' 

 Tamatia maculata, Cuv. Regn. An. (1817) i. p. 42.9 ; Sw. Om. Draw. pi. 11, 

 Nyctactes tamatia, Strickl. Ann. Nat. Hist. vi. 418. 

 Chaunornis tamatia, Gray, List of Gen. (1841) p. 13. 

 Tamatia tamatia, Bp. Consp. p. 146. 

 Le Tamatia a gorge rousse, Le Vail. Ois. de Par. ii. t. 41. 



B. supra fuliginoso-brunneus, rufescente plus minusve trans- 

 versim lineatus: fronte superciliisque ferrugineo tinctis : striga 

 utrinque suboculari in torquem nuchalem obscure producta 

 alba : collo antico ferrugineo vitta nigra utrinque marginato : 

 ventre maculis nigris confertc transvittato : rostro pedibusque 

 nigris. 



Long, tota 6*2 ; alseS'O; caudse 6*5. 



Hab. in Guiana (Le Vail.) (Schomb.) ; Cayenna ; Para et fl. Ama- 

 zonum (Wallace). 



This species appears to me to be closely allied in shape and 

 structure to the preceding, although some authors have made it 

 the type of a different genus. Schomburgk found it in the 

 deepest woods of British Guiana, where, he says, " it seems to 

 have an extensive range. They are seen in solitary spots, and 

 sit alone, more rarely in pairs, phlegmatic and sorrowful-looking 

 upon the branches of the low bushes. They are by no means 

 shy, and let one approach within six or eight steps, when they fly 

 a little way farther and resume again their sorrowful melancholy 

 position. Their food is insects.^' It extends thence down to the 

 banks of the Amazon, where it was procured by Mr. Wallace. 



8. Bucco RUFicoLLis (Waglcr). 



Capito rujicollis, Wagl. Isis 1829, p. 658 j Bp. Consp. p. 146. 



Bucco rujicollis, Gray's Gen. p. 74. 



Tamatia gularis, d'Orb. and Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1838, p. 166. 



Bucco gularis, Gray's Gen. p. ^4. 



Capito gularis, Bp. Consp. p. 146. 



B. fuliginoso-brunneus ; torque cervicali postico, loris et regione 

 auriculari albis : dorso et alarum tcctricibus albo mixtis : 

 subtus albidus ; gutture medio rufo ; vitta pectorali nigra : 



