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



we have dropped our names and adopted his. As to the scientific 

 unfairnesses in our other works which Prof. M^Coy promises to 

 point out, I should be very glad by his making known what he 

 considers as unfairnesses ; for if I have wronged either that author 

 or any other, it must have been unconsciously, and I am always 

 desirous of repairing the errors that I may have committed. I 

 trust, however, that Prof. M'Coy^s efforts in that direction will 

 not prove more successful than the arguments by which he 

 and Prof. Sedgwick have endeavoured to invalidate the state- 

 ment made by M. Haime and myself in our work on the Bri- 

 tish Corals, and that I shall not be obliged to waste more time 

 on the subject. 



I have the honour to be. Gentlemen, 

 oi-f in 1^^ Your most obedient servant, 



_j5,j;f. r Milne-Edwards. 



Paris, April 28th, 1854. 



XLV. — A Synopsis of the Fissirostral family Bucconidse. 

 By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S. 



::).• ( > aih- d [Concluded from p. 365.] ^ Olliim:/ 



f>p,> ,. Genus II. Malacoptila. ' ^yA iffs^sjq 



A. Malacoptila, G. B. Gray. - ^^^^l^ 



1. Malacoptila fusca (Gm.). 



White-hreasted Barhet, Lath. Syn. ii. 505. ^ 



Buccofuscus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 408; Lath. Iml. Orn. i. p. 206. '^»'«^.J ^^'^"^ 

 hypornix torquata, juv., Wagl. S. A. sp. 4. vvs v ,> ,.a\ 



Monasa unitorques, Du Bus, Bull. Ac. Brux. xiv. pt. 2. p. 107; Rev. Zool. 



1848, p. 249. 

 Monasa fusca, Strickl. Cont. to Orn. 1852, p. 43. 

 he Tamatia brun, Le Vail. Ois. de Par. v, 2. pi. 43. 

 Buccofuscus, Vieill. N. D. d'H. N. iii. 239; Vieill. Enc. Meth. 1419. 

 Tamatia fusca. Less. Tr. d'Orn, p. 168. 



Monasa fusca, Gray's Gen. i. p. 74 (pars); Bp. Consp. Av. p. 147 (pars). 

 Malacoptila fusca. Gray, List of Gen. (1841) p. 13. 



M. brunnea clarefulvo striata: macula utrinque frontali et magna 

 triangulari superpectorali albis : ventre obscure fulvescente : 

 pedibus albidis : rostro nigro basi aurantio. 



Long, tota 6*5 ; alse 3*6 ; caudse 2*7. 



Hab. in Cayenna (Le Vail.) ; Rio Nigro (A. W.). 



This species has been much confounded with M. torquata. 

 M. de Lafresnaye in the ' Bevue Zoologique,^ and Mr. Strickland 

 in the ' Contributions to Ornithology,^ have clearly pointed out 

 the differences between them, which will be sufficiently obvious 



