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Capita hartlauhi (not of Lafresnaye, 1845) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 

 130 (Barranca, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. ftir Om., 1869, 363 (Costa 

 Rica). 



Capita salvini Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 119, pi. 5, fig. 4 (Panama 

 to Costa Rica; coll. Brit. Mus.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, ii, 1896, 549 (Barranca, Turrialba, Navarro de Cartago, Birris and 

 Jimenez, Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui). — Bangs, Proc. Kew Engl. Zool. 

 Club, iii, 1902, 32 (Boquete and Volcan de Chiriqui, 4000-5000 ft.). 



Capita bourcieri salvini Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 570 (Costa Rica; 

 crit.). 



Genus CAPITO Vieillot. 



Capita Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 27. (Type, Tamaiia a tete et gorge rouge Buffon= 



Bucca cayannensis Gmelin^5. niger Miiller.) 

 Nystastes Gloger, in Froriep's Notizen, xvi, 1827, 277. (Type, Bucca nigcr 



Miiller.) 

 Mycropogon (not Micropagon Boie, 1826) Temminck, PI. Col., livr. 83, Feb., 1830; 



livr. 101-102, 1839, Tabl. M^th., p. 55. (Type, Bucca cayanneusis Gmelin=: 



B. ni'jrer Miiller.) 

 Micropogon (emendation?) Temminck, PI. Col., livr. 101-102, 1839, Tabl. Meth., 



p. 55. 

 Ablas « BiLLBERG, Synop. Faunae Scand., i, pars. 2, 1828, tab. A. (New name for 



Capi to Vieillot.) 



Similar to Eubucco but bill relatively shorter and mucli stouter, 

 nostrils circular, mesorhinium much broader, tail less than two-thirds 

 as long as wing, with outermost rectrices relatively much longer, 

 outermost (tenth) primary much narrower and relatively shorter, 

 and style of coloration very different, the back, etc., never plam green, 

 but black (plain ohve in one species), usually streaked and otherwise 

 variegated with yellow or orange, and the sexes alike except in color- 

 ation of underparts. 



Bill shorter than head, subcorneal, moderately compressed an- 

 teriorly, broad and depressed basally (width at base about one and a 

 half times its depth at same point), the culmen gradually decurved 

 from near base, indistinctly ridged terminally, broadly rounded or 

 flattened basally (on mesorhinium); gonys about as long as man- 

 dibular rami (sometimes slightly longer), straight or faintly convex, 

 ascending terminally, indistinctly ridged (more distinctly so ter- 

 minally) ; tomia smooth, the maxUlary tomium more or less strongly 

 concave anteriorly, gradually but strongly defiexed and more or 

 less convex posteriorly. Nostril small, circular, exposed. Latero- 

 frontal antise with several slender antrorse bristles projected forward 

 over nostrils, the rictus and chin with similar but smaller bristles. 

 Orbital region partly (usually for greater part) naked. Wing short, 

 very concave beneath, the longest primaries exceeding secondaries by 

 much less than length of exposed culmen ; sLxth and seventh, fifth, 

 sixth, and seventh, or fourth to seventh primaries longest, the eighth 

 a little shorter, the nmtli shorter than first, the tenth (outermost) less 



o 'A, very; ^ka^io, I am foolish, silly. (Richmond.) 



