72 Zooloijicai Socieiy : — 



Long, tota l.VO, aloe 08, caudse G'5. 



Hab. In Brasil. Borcali, Para, et fl. Amazonum. 



Obs. Similis U. paradisece, sed major ct pileo antico albescenfe 

 fusco. 



It is not without hesitation that I separate tliis bird from the 

 former. I have seen many exam])les of it from North Brazil, and 

 have always remarked that they difi'erlrom the Cayenne U . j^oradisea 

 in size and in the whiteness of the forehead. ]\Ir. Wallace brought 

 specimens from the neighbourhood of Para, whence I believe came 

 also my type, which I purchased in Hamburg. I may remark 

 that there are many other corresponding species of birds in Cayenne 

 and Brazil, of which the distinctness is generally admitted (such as 

 Pterofjiossiis aracari undJFiedi, Cari/othraustes cai/anensis and brasi- 

 Jiensis, aud PipHtes cJiloiion and chloris), which depend upon differ- 

 ences similar to, or perhaps less than, those between Urogalba 

 paradisea and V. amazonum. 



Genus 3. Brachyg.\lba, Bp. 



1. inornata, Sclater, S3'nopsis, p. 7- sp. 10. Brachyyalba albi- 

 ventris, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zygodact., nee Cuv. 



To the localities add : Quixos in rep. Equat. (Sir W. Jardine), and 

 Angostura on the Orinoco (Mus. Kiliens.). 



The female has the belly rufous instead of white. This species is 

 certainly not the alhioenter of Cuvier, that name having been apphed 

 by him to Le Yaillant's figure, Supp. 11. (cited by Cuvier, insuffi- 

 ciently perha]js, but not incorrectly, by the number of the page, 46), 

 and consequently a synonym of Yieillot's lexicoyastra, as placed by 

 me in my Synopsis (see Cuvier's Regn. An. (1829) i. p. 4-48). I 

 had supposed G. ulbiynlaris of Spix, and not this species, to be the 

 type Qii Brachyyalba, Bp,, because it stood first in the list. When 

 the creator of a genus gives neither generic characters nor type, the 

 only rule to go by is to take \\xq frst species given as the type species. 



2. Brachygalba melanosterna, Sclater, sp. nov. 



Supra niyricanti-fusca ; siibtns niyra ; merit albido : ventre medio 

 albo : alls caudacpie cenescentibvs : rostro albo. 



Hab. Govaz in imp. Brasiliensi (Behn) ; Guarayos in Bolivia 

 (d'Orb.)? 



I observed a specimen of this species in the collection of Professor 

 Behn, at Kiel. It closely resembles the preceding, but has the 

 breast quite black and the bill white. It was brought by the owner 

 from the province of Goyaz, in the interior of Brazil. I)'Orbigny's 

 specimen, mentioned in my Synopsis, page 7, probably also belongs 

 to this species. 



I have nothing further to say concerning Jacamaralcyon and Jaca- 

 merops. The Galbidoides Boersi is probably a fictitious bird. Spe- 

 cimens of Galbalcyrhynchus in the Paris INIuseum Avere brought by 

 MM. Castelnau and Devillefroin Pebas, on the Upper Amazon ; and 

 one of these birds, in the collection of Ilerr Kalckmann of Ham- 

 burg, was procured in the neighbourhood of Pernambuco iu Brazil. 



