162 GALBULIDiE. 



steep banks, no doubt for the purposes of nidification." Of Jaca- 

 merops Scbomburgk tells us the same stor}- ; but Mr. Bartlett was 

 informed b}' the Indians of Upper Amazouia that Jacamerops also 

 nests in stumps of trees. It is probable that the other members of 

 the group do not deviate from these practices. 



In preparing this Catalogue I have followed very closely the 

 arrangement put forward in my ' Monograph ' of the group published 

 in 1882 *. 



Subfamily I. GALBULIN^. 



]. UROGALBA. ^^^ 



Urogalba, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyy. p. 13 (18-j4) U. paradisea. 



Urocex, Cab. et Ilein. Mtts. Hein. iv. p. 210 (18(53) .... U. paradisea. 



Urogalba contains only the Paradise Jacamar of Guiana and its 

 Amazonian reiu'csontative, U. amazonuhi. It is easUy recognizable 

 by the great elongation of the central rectrices. 



The sexes in Urogalba are coloured alike. 



Keg to the Species. 



A. Smaller : cap uniform dark brown 1. paradisea, p. 162. 



B. Larger : cap whitj' brown 2. amazonum, p. 163. 



1. Urogalba paradisea. 



The Swallow-tailed Kingfisher, Edw. Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 10. 



Galbula lougicauda, Briss. Ont. iv. p. 89. 



Aleedo paradisea, Linn. S. N. i. p. 181 ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 458. 



Le Jacauiai" a longuu queue, Buff. Hist. Nat., Ois. vii. p. 222 ; id. IH. 



Enl. 271 ; Aud. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. i. Jae. p. o, t. 3; Levaill. Ois. 



de Par. ii. p. 120, t. 52. 

 Galbula paradisea, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 24:5 ; Vieill. Enc. Meth. 



p. 1325 ; Gray et Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 83 ; Cab. in Schomb. Guian. 



iii. p. 717 ; id. in Ersch u. Grub. Enc. sect. 1, lii. p. 309 ; Gray, 



List Fiss. B. M. p. 67 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 153 ; Cass. Cat. Hale. 



]). 18 ; lieichenb. Handb. ]). 87 ; Sd. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 33 ; id. 



Syn. Galb. p. 8 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 302 ; Pelz. Sitz. ^ik. Wien, 



XX. pp. 504, 517; id. Orn. Bras. p. 24. 

 Paradise Jacamar, Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 5. 

 Urogalba paradisea, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyy. p. 13 ; Sd. P. Z. S. 18o5, 



p. 14 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 207 ; id. Monoyr. Jae. and Puff-bds. p. 1, pi. i. 



lig. 1 ; Sd. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 582 ; iid. Nomend. p. 105 ; 



Sah: Ibis, 1886, p. 62 (Brit. Guiaua) ; Ti^. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1887, 



p. 318 (Brit. Guiana). 

 Urocex paradisea, Cab. et Hein. Mas. Hein. iv. p. 217. 



* 'A Monograph of the Jacamarsand Pufi'-birtls, or families Galbtdida: aud 

 Bucconidie' By P. L. Sclater. London : Porter, 1S82. 1 vol. 4to. 



