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cc. Forehead dull yellowish, dull orange, or brownish (sometimes tinged with 

 orange or orange-red), not distinctly different from color of crown. 

 d. Throat orange-red or red-orange. 

 e. Forehead strongly tinged with orange-red; rump streaked with sulphur 

 yellow; abdomen and flanks pale yellow or yellowish white. (Eastern 

 Ecuador; eastern Peru?). {Capita peruvianusf).0' 

 f. Breast immaculate light yellow. 



Capito peruvianus?, adult male (extralimital). 

 ff. Breast heavily spotted or broadly streaked with black. 



Capito peruvianus?, adult female (extralimital). 



ee. Forehead dull yellowish, very slightly, if at all, tinged with orange-red; 



rump streaked with golden yellow or orange; abdomen and flanks 



crossed by a broad band of orange or orange-yellow. (Eastern Peru.) 



(Capito aurantiiventris.)^ 



f. Breast immaculate light yellow. 



Capito aurantiiventris, adult male (extralimital). 

 ff. Breast heaAily spotted with black. 



Capito aurantiiventris, adult female (extralimital). 

 dd. Throat yellowish 'orange or orange-yellow. 

 e. Sides and flanks light yellow, streaked or spotted (more or less) with black; 

 back, etc., black, varied with light yellow. (Colombia to the Guianas 

 and eastern Peru . ) ( Capito auratus.) 

 f. Pileum olive-yellowish; remiges and retrices slate-dusky. (Colombia 

 to the Guianas and eastern Peru.) (Capita auratus auratus.) 

 g. Breast immaculate pale yellow. 



Capito auratus auratus, adult male (extralimital). c 



a (?) {Buccol peruvianus Cuvier, Rfegne Anim., i, 1817, 428, footnote (Peru; based 

 on Le Barbu orange de Perou Levaillant, Barbus, pi. 27). — C[apito'\ peruvianus Gray, 

 Gen. Birds, ii, 1846, 430. — Capito peruvianus Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 329, 

 part. — {Micropogon'\ peruvianus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 128 (Consp. 

 Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 12). — (?) M[ycropogon] aureus Temminck, PI. Col., livr. 83, 

 Feb., 1830 (vol. iii), text to Genus Mycropogon, p. 2 (based on Le Barbu orange de 

 Perott Levaillant, Barbus, pi. 27). — (?) C[apito]amazonicus Devilleand DesMurs, Rev. 

 Zool., April, 1849, 171 (Egaand Santa Maria, e. Peru). — Capita amazonicus Sclater, Ibis, 

 1861, 186. — Micropogon amazonicus DesMurs, Zool. Voy. Castelnau, Ois., 1855,28. — (?) 

 Micropogon amazonicus Des Murs, Zool. Voy. Castelnau, Ois., pi. 8. — (?) Capito niger 

 (not Bucco nig erMuWex) Bartlett, Proc. Zool Soc. Lond., 1882, 374 (Loretoyacu, e. Peru). 



^ (?) C{apito'\ amazonicus, part, Deville and Des Murs, Rev. Zool., April, 1849, 171, 

 in text. — (?) Micropogon amazonicus, part, Des Murs, Zool. Voy. Castelnau, Ois., 

 1855, 28. — (?) Capito auratus (not Bucca auratus Dumont) Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xix, 1891, 112 (Guiana; Oyapok, Cayenne; Ega and Pebas, e. Peru. — Capito 

 aurantiiventris Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxv. May 4, 1912, 87 (Upper Amazon 

 Valley? — probably Rio Negro or Rio Tapajos; coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



<^ Bucco auratus Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat., iv, 1816, 54 (Peni; coll. Mus. Paris). — 

 [Capito] auratus Gray, Hand-Ust, ii, 1870, 178, no. 8491. — Capito auratus Taczanowski, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, 549 (centr. Peru). — Capito punctatus Lesson, Traits 

 d'Om., 1831, 165 (no locality; =adult male); Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 

 1891, 112. — Bucco punctatus Des Murs, Icon. Orn., 1846, pi. 20. — (?) Capito aurifrons 

 Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832, 3 (no locality; =adult female?). — Micropogon 

 aurifrons? Des Murs, Zool. Voy. Castelnau, Ois., 1855, pi. 9, fig. 1. — Micropogon 

 flavicolle Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 120 (no locaUty). — ? [Micropogon] 

 auricollis " Levaill[ant] " Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 128 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 12) (=nomen nudum). — (?) Micropogon peruvianus (not Bucco peruvianus 

 Cuvier) Des Murs, Zool. Voy. Castelnau, Ois., 1855, 26 (crit.). — (?) Capito auratus 

 inlennediics Berlepsch and Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, April, 1902, 98 (Nericagua, 

 Venezuela; coll. Tring Mus.). 



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