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Genus BRACHYGALBA Bonaparte. 



Brachygalba Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 129 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 



1854, 13). (Type, B. albiventris Bonaparte— Galbula lugubris Swainson.) 

 BracUgalba (emendation) Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 382 (p. 16 of 



reprint). (Says B. albigularis is type.) 

 Brachygalbula (emendation) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 267 (in synonymy 



of Brachygalba albigularis). 

 Brachycexa Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, April, 1863, 214 (to 



replace Brachygalba Bonaparte, on grounds of purism). 



Small Galbulidse Gength about 138-183 mm.) with only ten rec- 

 trices (the sixth pair wanting), tail sub truncate, toes four, and feath- 

 ering of head normal. 



Bill about twice as long as head, straight, compressed (except at 

 base), attenuate termmaUy, the culmen and gonys both sharply 

 ridged. Nostril exposed, obhquely horizontal, in lower anterior por- 

 tion of nasal fossa, overhung by a very broad operculum. Rictal and 

 frontal bristles weU developed. Wing moderately long, with longest 

 primaries exceeding distal secondaries by about half the length of bill; 

 sixth and seventh primaries longest (the fifth and eighth but little 

 shorter), the tenth (outermost) less than one- third as long as the 

 longest, the ninth a httle longer than distal secondaries. Tail shorter 

 than distance from bend of wing to tip of proximal secondaries but 

 longer than distance from bend to tip of distal secondaries, sub- 

 truncate or slightly rounded; rectrices ten, the sixth pair wanting. 

 Tarsus about one-fourth as long as distance from nostril to tip of 

 maxilla, unfeathered, except extreme upper part m front, the acro- 

 tarsium transversely scuteUate; toes four, the outer anterior one 

 (without claw) slightly but decidedly longer than tarsus, the inner 

 posterior one very small. 



Plumage and coloration. — Lores naked; plumage of head normal. 

 Coloration duU, the wings and tail (sometimes chest and sides also) 

 sUghtly metaUic. 



Range. — Eastern Panama to Bohvia and central Brazil. (Six 

 species.) 



BRACHYGALBA SALMONI Sclater and Salvin. 



SALMON'S JACAMAR. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum, hmdneck, back, and scapulars plain 

 dusky grayish brown (dark fuscous) glossed mth bronze-greenish 

 Gess distinctly m worn plumage); rest of upper parts duU metaUic 

 bronze-green or bluish bronze-green; auricular, suborbital, and malar 

 regions sooty blacldsh or fuscous-black; chin and throat pale buff or 



""Von Ppaxuc (kurz, klein) und ktj^ (=K-/iiJ^=Kal)a$) zu verandern vorschlagen.-' 

 (Cabanis and Heine.) 



3622"— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 24 



