1. nrrco. 185 



band aud nuchal collar white ; external secondaries and upper tail- 

 coverts slightly margined with white; tail black, with a medial 

 band and narrow terminal band of white : beneath, throat and sides 

 of neck white ; pectoral band black, passing beneath into brownish 

 chestnut; bell)- and crissum white, varied with black ; under wing- 

 coverts black ; inner webs of wing-feathers at the base white ; bill 

 and feet black : whole length 7*8 inches, wing ;}-4, tail 2-5, bill 

 from gape 1 '4. 

 Uab. Amazoni.'i. 



a. Ad. sk. Oyapock, Cayenne (?). Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. St. Ega, Upper Amazons {Bates). Purchased. 



8. Bucco tectus. 



liavbii a poiti'iiif noire do Cayenne, Daiifj. PI. Enl. 688. fig. 2. 

 Le plu.« petit Tamatia noir et blanc, Buff. HUt. Nat. vii. p. 99. 

 Bucco tectu.s, Ilodcl. Tabl. d. PI. Enl. p. 4:5 ; Grm/ et Mitch. Gm. B. 



i. p. 74; Omij, List Fis.s. B. M. \t. 47 : Scl. Ami. Nat. Hkt. .*er. 



2, xiii. p. 359 ; id. Sipi. Bucc. p. 9 ; id. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 196 ; id. 



Cat. A. B. p. 270 ; id. Monogr. Jav. and Puff-hds. p. 79, pi, xxvi. ; 



Scl. vt Salv. P. Z. S. 181)7, p. 582 ; tid. Noinencl. p. 105 ; Pelz. 



Orn. Bras. p. 21 ; Lai/ard, Ibis, 1873, p. 391 ; Salv. Ibis, 1886, 



p. 62 (Brit. Guiana). 

 Bucco nielanoleuco?, G)}iel. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 406 ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 



p. 203 ; Vieill. Nouv. Diet. iii. p. 241 ; Licht. Doubl. p. 8. 

 Petit Tamatia a plastron noir, Levaill. Ois. de Par. ii. p. 93, t. 40. 

 Lesser Pied Barbot, Lath. Gen. Hist. iii. p. 220. 

 Buceo melanolnicus, Vieill. Eiic. M4th. p. 1420 ; Pelz. Sitz. Ak. 



Wien, XX. p. 510. 

 Tamatia melanoleucus, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 167. 

 Capito melanoleucus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Capito, sp. 2 ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 146 ; id. Consp. Vol. Zi/f/. p. 13 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 284. 

 Nothriscus tectus, Cab. et Uein. Mtis. Hein. iv. p. 146. 



Above black ; spots on the head, stripe on each side through 

 the eye, and narrow margins to the scapulars and upper tail-coverts 

 white : beneath white ; broad pectoral band black ; flanks barred 

 with black and white ; tail black, with a white median bar and 

 broad terminal spots on the lateral rectrices ; bill and feet black : 

 whole length 6 inches, wing 2-9, taU 2-1, bill from the gape 1. 

 Female similar. 



Hah. Guiana, Cayenne, Lower Amazonia, and N.E. Brazil. 



a. tS ad. sk. Camacusa, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Whitehf). 



b. S ad.; c, d. Bartica Grovo, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 $ ad. sk. ( Whitely). 



e. Ad. St. Cayenne. " II. C. Rotheri- [P.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater Coll. ' 



g. .\d. sk. Ciiyeinie. Purchased. 



h. Ad. sk. Pcrnambuco, Brazil (Craven). Sclater Coll. 



I. $ ad. sk. Para ( WaUace). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



