TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 203 



Order PICIFORMES: Jacamars, Barbels, Toucans, 

 Woodpeckers 



Family BUCCONIDAE: Puff-birds 

 Genus HYPNELUS Cabanis and Heine 



Hypnelus bicinctiis stoicus Wetmore 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 98 (4) : 1, March 10, 1939. 

 151670. Adult male. Margarita Island, Caribbean Sea off the State of 

 Sucre, Venezuela. July 3, 1895. Collected by Wirt Robinson. Original 

 number 404. 



Genus MALACOPTILA G. R. Gray 



Malacoptila fuliginosa Richmond, ex Ridgway MS. 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 16: 512, October 4, 1893. 

 =Malacoptilu panamensis fuliginosa Richmond, fide Wetmore (ms.). 

 127339. Adult female. Forest behind the International Planting Company 



("LP.") Plantation (on the Rio Escondido, 50 miles from Bluefields), 



Department of Zelaya, Nicaragua. September 23, 1892. Collected by 



Charles W. Richmond. Original number 4392. 

 The type, a melanistic specimen, is definitely aberrant. 



Genus NONNULA Sclater 



Nonnula frontalis stulta Wetmore 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 122 (8) : 3, December 17, 1953. 

 445077. Adult male. El Uracillo, Province of Code, Panama. February 

 23, 1952. Collected by Alexander Wetmore and Watson M. Perrygo. 

 Original number 16946. 



Genus MONASA Vieillot 



Monasa fidelis Nelson 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 56 (37) : 1, February 16, 1912. 

 =Monasa morphoeus fidelis Nelson. See Griscom, Bull. Mus. Corap. Zool. 



78: 328, 1935. 

 207666. Adult male. Southern slope of Cerro Azul (at elev. 800 feet), 



about 15 miles NW. of Chepo, Department of Panama, Panama. March 



21, 1911. Collected by Edward A. Goldman. Original number 14127. 



Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Monasa similis Nelson 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 56 (37) : 1, February 16, 1912. 

 =Monasa morphoeus fidelis Nelson. See Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 



78: 328, 1935. 

 207665. Adult female. Cerro Azul (at elev. 800 feet), about 15 miles 



NW. of Chepo, Department of Panama, Panama. March 24, 1911. 



