164 RALBtTLID^. 



Keij to the Species. 



A. Belly dark rufous in both sexes (Galbula). 



a. Bill black ; breast bronzy green. 



a'. Throat white in male, rufous in female. 



a". Outer rectrices blackish 1. viridis, p. 164. 



b" . Outer rectrices rufous. 



a'". With black tips 2. rufo-viridis, p. 165. 



b'". Without black tips : 



i chin white ' 3. ruficauda, p. 166. 



] chin black 4. melanogenia, p. 166. 



h' . Throat like breast bronzy green : 



j outer rectrices rufous, with black tips . . 5. toynbacea, p. 167. 

 I outer rectrices uniform rufous 6. pastaza, p. 1G8. 



b. Bill yellow ; breast rufous : 



) cheeks green ; throat (in male) white) . . 7. albirostris, p. 168. 

 ] cheeks blue ; throat rufous in both sexes . 8. cyaneicollis, p. 169. 



B. Belly white in male, cinnamomeous in female 

 (^Cauccdias). 



( Smaller : back and breast coppery 9. leucogastm, p. 170. 



I Larger : back and breast purplish 10. chalcothorax, p.l71. 



1. Galbula viridis. 



The Jacamacu'i of Marcgrave, Edw. Glean. Xut. Hist. iii. p. 261, 



pi. 334. 

 Alcedo galbula, Linn. S. N. i. p. 182 ; Gmel. S. N. i. p. 459. 

 Le .lacamar proprement dit, Buff. Hist. Nat., Ois. vii. p. 220 ; id. PI. 



Enl. 238. 

 Galbula viridis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 244 ; Vieill. Enc. M6th. p. 1326 ; 



Gray et Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 83 ; Gray, List Fiss. B. M. p. 66 ; 



B2}. Consp. i. p. 152 ; id. Consp. Vol. Zy<j. p. 13 ; Cab. in Ersch u. 



Grub. Enc. sect. 1, Iii. p. 308 ; Beichenb. Handb. p. 85 ; Scl. Contr. 



Orn. 1852, p. 29 ; id. Syn. Galb. p. 2 ; id. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 13 ; id. 



Cat. A. B. p. 265 ; id. Monoyr. Jac. and Puff-bds. p. 7, pi. ii. ; Cass. 



Cat. Hale p. 17 ; Peh. Sitz. Ak. Wien, xx. p. 516 ; id. Orn. 



Bras. p. 24 ; Cab. et Hein. Mas. Hein. iv. p. 219 ; Scl. et Sale. 



P. Z. S. 1867, p. 581 ; iid. Numencl. p. 104 ; Salv. Ibis, 1886, 



p. 01 (Brit. Guiana). 

 Le Jacamar, Atul. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. i. Jac. t. 1 (c?) ; Levaill. Ois. 



de Par. ii. pp. Ill, 112, tt. 47, 48. 

 Le Jacamar a gorge rousse. And. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. i. Jac. t. 2 ( $ J. 

 Galbula rubricoUis, Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 224. 

 Green Jacamar, Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 2. 

 Galbula viridicauda, Siv. An. in Menay. p. 327 ; Cab. in Schomb. 



Guian. iii. p. 717; id. in Ersch u. Grub. Enc. sect. 1, Iii. p. 308. 

 " Galbula quadricolor, T^err.," Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyy. p. 13. 



Above coppery green, cap more bluish ; wings blackish ; coverts 

 and edges of secondaries green like the back ; throat white ; pec- 

 toral band bright green ; belly and under wing-coverts chestnut ; 

 tail above bluish coppery green, beneath blackish ; bill black : whole 

 length 7"8 inches, wing 3, tail 3, bill from gape 1'9. Female 

 similar, but throat rufous and belly lighter chestnut. 



Hab. Guiana, Surinam, Cayenne, Lower Amazonia, and Venezuela. 



