448 CLASS xvi. 



Upper mandible with one or two teeth on each side. Nostrils 

 basal, covered by bristles; long bristles below the bill, turned 

 forwards. Tail moderate or short, even. 



Sp. Pogonorhynchus dubius nob., Bucco dubius GM., Pogonias sulcirostris 

 LEACH, BUFF. PL enl. 602, GUR. Iconogr., Ois. PL 34, fig. 2 (fig. of bill) ; 

 PogonorJiynchus niger, Bucco niger GMEL., BUFF. PI. enl. 688, fig. i, 

 LESSON Orniih. PL 24, fig. i ; PogonorhyncJius personate TEMM., PL col. 

 20 1, &c. Birds of Africa, which live on fruits and insects. The females 

 lay their eggs in hollow trunks of trees. 



Capita VIEILL., Bucco Cuv., TEMM. (and Micropogon ejusd.), 

 Capita and Megalaima GRAY. Bill moderate or shorter than head, 

 broad at the base, compressed at the sides; two mandibles sub- 

 equal. Nostrils basal, lateral, covered by bristles. Wings moderate, 

 with first quill very short, fourth mostly longest of all, fourth, fifth, 

 and six subequal. Tail rounded. 



Megalaima GRAY, Bucco TEMM. (add Barbatula LESS., Pogoniolus 

 LAFRESN.). Bristles widely divergent at the base of upper man- 

 dible, often elongated beyond the tip. Tarsus shorter than anterior 

 outer toe. Tail short. 



Sp. Capita trimaculata, Bucco frontalis TEMM. PL color. 536, fig. i, GUJERIN 

 Icon., Ois. PL 34, fig. i ; Capito grandis, Bucco grandis GM., Megalaima 

 wrens GRAY, BUFF. PL enl. 871 ; green, the head greyish blue, below at 

 the base of the tail red ; from the continent of India ; Bucco philippensis 

 BRISS., BUFF. PL enl. 331, of which Buteo luteus LESS., DESM. PL peintes 

 21, is an albino- variety. These birds also feed chiefly on wild berries and 

 other fruits. 



Psilopogon SAL, MUELLER. Bristles few. Tail somewhat long, 

 graduated. 



Sp. Capito pyrolophus, Psilopogon pyrolophus S. MUELLER in TijdscTir. voor 



not. Gesch. en Physiol. n. p. 339, PL iv. fig. 3 (fig. of head), TEMM. PL 



col. 597, Sumatra. (The skeleton is figured in JARDINE Contrib. to Ornith. 



1850, PL 54.) 



Add sub-genera Megalorhynchus EYTON and Psilopus TEMM. 



Capito GRAY, Micropogon TEMM. Bill higher than broad at the 

 base, with culmen produced upon the forehead, bent ; lower man- 

 dible straight, acuminate. Small short bristles at the sides of bill, 

 mental none. Tail long, rounded. Tarsus equalling the anterior 

 outer toe, or a little longer than it. 



Sp. Capito cayennensis, Bucco cayennensis GMEL., Capito erytkrocephalus 

 GRAY, BUFF. PL enl. 206; Capito elegans, Bucco elegans GM., Bucco 

 maynanensis BRISS., BUFF. PL enl. 330 ; Capito peruvianus GRAY, Bucco 



