118 r\rTToxm,T:. 



fore neck and chest : chin black, followed by a crimson patch, the 

 lower throat silvery cobalt, followed by a distinct orange collar ; on 

 the breast a small patch of scarlet. Total length 6 inches, culmen 

 0-8, wing 2-9, tail 2-0o, tnrsns 0-8. 

 Hah. Peru. 



a. (5 2 ad. sk. Peru. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



14. Capito bourcieri. (Plate Y. fig. G.) 



Micropogou boiu-cieri, if///-. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 179; id. Rev. Zool. 



1849, p. lie, pi. 4. 

 Micropogou hartlaubi, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 180 ; id. Rev. Zool. 



1849, p. 116, pi. 6. 

 Capito bourcieri (= S), G^rmj, Gen. B. ii. p. 430 (1846) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1854, p. 115, 18oo, p. 162 ; id. Ibis, 1861, p. 18>< ; id. Cat. Amer.B. 



p. 329 (1862) : Gojin, Mm. Pai/s-Bas, Buccoues, p. 58 (1863) ; 



Grriy, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 22 (1868) ; id. Handel. B. ii. 



p. 178, no. 8497 (1870) ; Salv. Ibis, 1870, p. Ill ; Marshall, 



Monogr. Capit. p. 165, pi. 66 (1871) ; Scl. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 110 (1873, pt.) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 538. 

 Capito hartlaubi (=$), Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 430 (1846); Scl. 



P. Z. S. 1854, p. 115, 1855, p. 162; id.^Ibis, 1861, p. 189; id. 



Cat. Amer. B. p. 330 (1862) ; Goffin, Mus. Pays-Bas, liuccoues, 



p. 61 (1863) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 22 (1868). 

 Capito capistratus, Eyton. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 131. 

 Megalaima capistratus, Eyton, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 29, pi. 45. 

 Eubucco bourcieri, Bp. Consp. i. p. 142 (1850) ; id. Consp. Vol. 



Zi)yod. p. 13 (1854); Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 146, 1860, pp. 95, 297. 

 Eubucco hartlaubi, Bp. Consp. i. p. 142 (1850) ; id. Consp. Vol. 



Zyyod. p. 13 (1854) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 267, 1858, p. 75. 



Adult male. General colour above bright grass-green, wing- 

 coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 dusky brown, externally green, the primaries a little more olive- 

 green on their margins ; tail-feathers oli\e-green, with bluish-green 

 edges ; crown of head bright scarlet as far as the nape. On the 

 side of the neck a silvery-white vertical band, almost meeting and 

 forming a collar on the hind neck ; lores and feathers round eye 

 black : ear-coverts, sides of face, cheeks, throat, and fore neck 

 scarlet ; breast pale yellow, fading off into white on the abdomen ; 

 sides of body and flanks white, streaked with broad green centres 

 to the feathers ; thighs white : under tail-coverts white with green 

 centres ; under wing-coverts white with a yellowish tinge ; quills 

 below dusky, tawny buff on inner edge. Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0-8, wing 2-8, tail 1-So, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Differs from the male. The scarlet on the head 

 and face "is wanting; the crown, nape, and hind neck dull golden 

 yellow : lores and forehead black, followed by a baud across the 

 sinciput of verditer-blue, like the sides of the face and ear-coverts ; 

 chin black; throat apple-green, followed by a collar of bright 

 orange, extending upwards towards the sides of the neck, where a 

 vertical band of golden olive replaces the silver-grey band of the 



