512 BIRDS FROM MCARAGUA AND COSTA RICA — RICHMOND. 

 164. Ceryle inda (Linn.). 



TTncominoii. The first vspeciineii I sa\A' was in a ])ait('h of woods, in 

 a dani]) ])laee near Greytown, sonic distance from any body of water, 

 and rather an iiuusual place for a Kingfisher. 



l^unily GALBULlD.y.. 

 165. Galbula melanogenia Scl. 



Rather rare. Xoted on tlie I'^scoiidido. Observed only on three or 

 four occasions. It has a ])iercin,i;- cry, resembling- "kee'-u," witli the 

 first syllable very shrill and strongly accented. Tlie stomach of one 

 s])ecimen shot, contained insects. The bird jerks its tail after the 

 fashion of a Kingfisher. 



Family BUCCONID.E. 



166. Malacoptila pauaniensis Lafr. 



Rather rare in the forests on the P^scondido. A female shot ^lay 2.'^, 

 was about ready to deposit eggs. It was shot from a twig directly in 

 front of a hole in a bamboo, i]i which its nest was i)robably located. 

 The stomach was distended witli insects, princi})ally locusts. On July 

 2, another female was found, accompanied by one young bird, and both 

 were secured. 



Tlie species seems to be confin<'d to the tliick fore.st, where it keeps 

 among tlie lower branches, at times even descending to the bushes. 

 Iris cannine. 



Septend)er 2.3, T shot two birds which I snjipo.sed at the time to be 

 nmtes, ,is they were found within 40 yards of one another, and subse- 

 (punit dissection proved them to be male and female. The latter difters 

 so much from ordinary jxaKuneiisifi^lw being dark clove-brown or brown- 

 ish slate above, with brownish black stripes on lateral underi>arts, that 

 Mr. IJidgway ai)plied the name Malacoptila fulhiinosfi to it in a MS. 

 des('ri]»tion, and in case the bird should prove to be really di.stinct 

 froinj>^nnrj»r».s/.s, this name may be used to designate it. Forthe present 

 I prefer to include it with M. pauaniensis. 



This bird, No. 127339, V. S. National Museum, E.scondido River, 

 Sei»tember 23, 1892, may be described as follows: 



Above dee]> clove-l)rown, rather clearer or more inclining to l)rownish 

 slate on head and neck; back and tips of wing-coverts sparsely marked 

 with minute dots of dull bufiy; sides of head, beneath and behind eyes, 

 narrowly streaked with bnft"; nunlian i)ortion of forehead, lores (except 

 near eyes), ami malar plumes white; chin and upper throat mixed 

 white and dusky brown, the latter nearly uniform on upper throat; 

 center of throat white, becoming light dull bufi" on lower throat and 

 chest; rest of lower parts bufiy white, the breast and sides conspicu- 

 ou.sly striped with dusky brown, these stripes broadest and most sharply 



