476 Mr. P. L. Sclater on the Fissirostral family Bucconidae. 



Brazil. Near Rio de Janeiro, about S. Cristovao, I found it in 

 all the thick woods, even in the neighbourhood of dwellings. 

 They sit still and melancholy upon a low bough, or upon the 

 ground, or hop about on the watch for insects, the remains of 

 which are found in their stomachs. In the south provinces near 

 Rio, Cabo Frio, on the Parahyba, and still farther north, they 

 are common ; in the more northerly provinces that I travelled 

 through, I did not meet with them so often. They are by no 

 means timid, and are easy to be shot.^^ 



4. Malacoptila fulvogularis, Sclater. 

 Malacoptilafulvogularis, Sclater, Pr. Z. S. 1853, Dec. 13th. 

 M. capite toto et dorso summo nigris, scapis plumarum leviter 

 fulvis : dorso alis caudaque fuliginoso-brunneis ; dorso medio 

 punctis paucis triangularibus fulvis; uropygii plumis anguste 

 fulvo marginatis ; cauda immaculata : mento et gutture toto 

 clare fulvis : pectore nigro, scapis plumarum late albis : ventre 

 leviter fulvescente. 

 Long, tota 8-5 ; alse 3*7. 



Hab. in Bolivia (Mus. Derb.). -^^ 



The only specimen of this species I have yet seen is in the. 

 Derby Museum at Liverpool. The bill is black, the head 

 brownish black passing into brown on the back and rump ; the 

 top and sides of the head and upper neck have the shafts of the 

 feathers and the adjoining barb of a clear wood-brown ; on the 

 middle of the back are a few triangular spots of clear brown; 

 the rump-feathers are narrowly edged with lighter brown. The 

 wing- and tail-feathers are clear brown, the wing-feathers lighter 

 on the outside edge. The chin and whole throat are clear fulvous ; 

 the breast-feathers are medially whitish and bordered with 

 blackish brown. The belly and crissum are fulvous whitish. 



In the colouring of the head and upper neck this species re- 

 sembles the preceding. ^.. ..*>.. ^ 



5. Malacoptila substriata, Sclater. ;ol 



Malacoptila substriata, Sclater, Pr. Zool. Soc. Dec. 13th, 1853. J'- 



M. supra umbrino-brunnea capite nigrescentiore : capite et dorso 

 summo longitrorsum fulvo striolatis : dorsi uropygiique plumis 

 rufescente ochraceo anguste marginatis : alis caudaque imma- 

 culate cinerascenti-brunneis ; loris et mystacibus elongatis 

 albis : lateribus capitis et corpore infra nigrescentibus, ochraceo 

 et albo late striatis : gula media et pectore toto rufescente 

 ochraceo : ventre brunneo et ochraceo-albido confuse mixto : 

 Cauda subtus cinerascentiore : rostro pedibusque nigris. 

 Long, tota 7*8; al?e 3-8; cauda* 3-8. 

 Hnh. in Nova Grenada. b >1/I jgfi 



