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J[acamerops] grandis Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 84. — Reichenbach, Handb., i, 



1852, 88, pi. 459, figs. 3282, 3283. 

 [Jacamero'ps] grandis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 153; Ateneo Italiano, ii, 



1854, 128 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 13).— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 102, 



no. 1248. — ScLATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 105. 

 Laviproptila grandis Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 718; 



in Ersch. u. Grub. Enc, sec. 1, Hi, 1851, 310. 

 L[amproptila] grandis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 227. 

 [Laviproptila] grandis Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 211 



(Peru; Guiana; Cayenne). 

 Galbula jacamadri Shaw, Nat. Misc., xx, 1819, pi. 833 (based on Le Jacamaciri 



Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Dor., i, Hist. Nat. Jacam., 1802, 8 pi. 6). 

 Lamprotila platyrhyncha Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 336. 

 Galbula jacamerini Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 298. 

 G[albula] magna Voigt, Thierreich, i, 1831, 678 (based on Le grand Jacamar 



Levaillant). 

 (?) [Jacamerops] boersii Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 153 (based on Levaillant, 



Hist. Nat. Jac, pi. 53). 

 (?) Jacamerops isidori Deville, Rev. Zool., 1849, 55 (Sarayacu and Pampa del 



Sacramento, e. Peru; coll. Paris Mus.). — Sclater, Synop. Galb., 1852, 9; 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 16. — Des Murs, Exped. de Castelnau, Zool., 



Ois., 1855, pi. 10. — Hartlaub, Joum. fiir Om., 1857, 43. 

 (?) [Jacamerops] isidori Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 128 (Consp. Volucr. 



Zygod., 1854, 13).— Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 105. 

 (?) J[acamerops] isidori Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Om., i, 1852, 88. 

 (?) Jacamerops isidorei Bes Murs, Exped. de Castelnau, Zool., Ois., 1855,32 (Mision 



de Sarayacu, Rio Ucayali, and Pampa del Sacramento, e. Peru). 

 (?) L[am.proptila] isidori Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 227 



(Pebas, e. Peru). 



Genus GALBULA Brisson. 



Galbula Brisson, Om., iv, 1760, 85. (Type, by tautonomy, Alcedo galbula 



Linnaeus.) 

 Augaa Billberg, Synop. Faimse Scand., i, part 2, 1828, tab. A. (New name for 



Galbula Brisson.) 

 Caucaliasb Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 218. (Type, Galbula 



leucogastra Vieillot.) 



Medium-sized to rather small four-toed Galbulidse Gength about 

 200-260 mm.) with the graduated tail longer than wing (but much 

 less than twice as long), bill narrower than deep at nostrils, and with 

 under parts of body not black. 



Bill long, slender, and compressed, much longer than head (exposed 

 culmen at least half as long as wing) ; culmen very faintly convex in 

 middle portion, not at all decurved terminally, sharply ridged 

 throughout; gonys three to four times as long as mandibular rami, 

 straight to slightly concave, sharply ridged throughout, usually 

 slightly prominent basally; commissure straight to very faintly 



o Auykco, I shine, glitter. (Richmond.) 



b "Namen wir von KauKaXcag (=Kaurj^), entlehnten, gleichsam als Bindeglied 

 zwischen den Gattungen C/rocea; und Galbula eischeinen." (Cabanis and Heine.) 



