On new Genera and Species of Capitonidse. 475 



We have a good series of this species, which is well figured 

 and described by Mr. Gould in the work quoted above. 



The sexes are entirely alike, but the male is smaller and 

 has the rufous chest less bright than the female. 



Mr. Ramsay gives the geographical distribution of this 

 species as extending from Cape York, Wide Bay and Rich- 

 mond, and Clarence River District, to Victoria and S. Australia. 



23. TuRNix VELox (Gould). 



(1840.) Hemipodlus velox, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 150. 



(1848.) Hemipodius velox, Gould, Birds of Austr. v. pi. 

 87. 



We have again a good series of this little bird, which is 

 also well figured and described by Mr. Gould in the above- 

 cited work. 



Like the two last-mentioned species, T. castanonota and 

 T. pyrrhothorax, the above has a very stout bill. 



The sexes are entirely alike in plumage, but the male is 

 smaller (wing 2*8 as against 3*1 in the female), and appears, 

 even when fully adult, to retain the light stripe down the 

 middle of the head, and light margins to all the feathers of 

 the neck and upper part of the back, both of which become 

 uniform in the fully adult female. 



Mr. Ramsay says this bird is found from Rockingham 

 Bay southwards, also in Victoria, S. Australia, and Tasmania, 

 as well as in the Swan River District. 



XLIIl. — On some new Genera and Species of the Family 

 Capitonidse. By Captain G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S. 



During my studies at the British Museum I have come 

 across several species of Capitonidse which appear to me to 

 be undescribed. I have also found it necessary to provide 

 names for some genera of African Barbets which I think 

 should be separated from their relatives. 



1. Erythrobucco, gen. n. 

 Distinguished from Pogonorliynchus (type P. diibius) by 



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