402 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 138-149 (143); wing, 56.5-62 

 (58.9); tail, 53.5-62.5 (57.9); exposed culmen, 20-23 (21.5); tarsus, 

 13.5-15.5 (14.5); outer anterior toe, 11-11.5 (11.1).« 



Eastern Panama (Lion Hill; Cana, Darien) through Colombia 

 (Bogota) to eastern Ecuador (Rio Napo). 



Malacoptila frontalis Sclater, Ann. and Mag. N. H., ser. 2, xiii, 1854, 479 (interior 

 of Colombia; colL Brit. Mus.); Synop. Bucconidae, 1854, 20; Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1855, 136 (Bogota, Colombia). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 vii, 1862, 318 (Lion Hill, Panama). 



iVonnuZa/rontaZis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 196(Rio Napo, e. Ecuador); 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 274 (Bogota, Colombia); Mon. Jacam. and Puff-birds, 

 1882,139; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 201 (Panama; int. Colombia).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 519. — Bangs, Proc. 

 New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 17 (Loma del Leon, Panama). 



N[onnula] frontalis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 129. 



[Nonnula] frontalis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 106. — Sharpb, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 199. 



Suborder ANISODACTYL^. 

 ANISODACTYLE CORACIIFORMES. 



•< Angulirostres Illiger, Prodr. Om., 1811, 208 (=Halcyone8+Meropes). 



>< Brevilingues Merrem, Abhandl. Berlin Acad., 1812-13 (1816), p. 244 (=Hal- 



cyones+Upupse) . 

 <C.Alcyones Temminck, Man. d'Om., 2d ed., 1820, 418 (=Halcyone8-|-Merope8). 



< Tantali terrestres Wagler, Natiirl. Syst., Amphib., 1830, 81 (=Upupae+ 



Bucerotes+Halcyones). 

 <^Lipoglossx Nitzsch, Syst. Pterylog., 1840, 146 (=Bucerote8+Upupae+Hal- 

 cyones). 



< Anisodactyli Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 156 (=HalcyoneB+ 



Momoti) . 



< Coccyges anisodactylse Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, pp. vi, 102 



(excludes Meropes and Bucerotes).^ 



> Anisodactylas Sclater, Ibis, 1880, 401 (includes Colli, Upupse, Coracise, and 



Caprimulgi). 

 = Anisodactylas Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 50 (Birds North and Mid. 

 Am.), pt. iv, 1911, 297. 



> Insessores (not of Vigors, 1823) Reichenow, Vog. Zool. Gart., 1882, 129 (in- 



cludes Upupae, Coracise, and Podargidse). 

 = Volucres Syndactylx Sundevall, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., 1872, 94. 



> Halcyoniformes Fuerbringer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., ii, 1888, 1567 (in- 



cludes Upupse). 

 = Alcedinoidex Stejneger, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv., 1885, 395, in text. 



> Halcyones Forbes, Ibis, 1884, 119 (includes Upupse and Colli). 



> Aniso-syndactylx Dubois, M6m. Soc. Zool. France, iv, 1891, 115 (includes 



Coracise and Upupse). 

 >• Coracias Gadow, Struct, and Classif. Birds, 1898, 36 (includes Coracise). — 

 Beddard, Struct, and Classif. Birds, 1898, 204 (includes Coracise). 



" Four specimens. 



b The work cited dealing with American birds only, it is uncertain as to what forms 

 the authors would have included in a world-wide scheme. 



