474 Mr. P. L. Sclater on the Fissirustral family Bucconidfe. 



we have dropped our names and adopted his. As to the scientific 

 unfairnesses in our other works which Prof. M'Coy promises to 

 point out, I should be very glad by his making known what he 

 considers as unfairnesses ; for if I have wronged either that author 

 or any other, it must have been unconsciously, and I am always 

 desirous of repairing the errors that I may have committed. I 

 trust, however, that Prof. M 'Coy's efforts in that direction will 

 not prove more successful than the arguments by which he 

 and Prof. Sedgwick have endeavoured to invalidate the state- 

 ment made by M. Haime and myself in our work on the Bri- 

 tish Corals, and that I shall not be obliged to waste more time 

 on the subject. 



1 have the honour to be, Gentlemen, 



Your most obedient servant, 



Milne-Edwards. 

 Paris, April 28th, 1854. 



XLV. — A Synopsis of the Fissirosh-al family Bucconida^. 

 By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S. 



[Concluded from p. 3G5.] 



Genus II. Malacoptila. 



A. Malacoptila, G. 11. Gray. 



1. Malacoptila fusca (Gm.). 



White-breasted Barbet, Lath. Syn. ii. 503. 



Buccofuscus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 4('8; Lath. lud. Oni. i. p. 206. 



Lypornix torquata, jnv., Wagl. S. A. sp. 4. 



Monasa unitorques, Du Bus, Bull. Ac. Brux. xiv. jrt. 2. p. 10/; Rev. Zool. 



1848, p. 249. 

 Monasa fusca, Strickl. Cont. to Om. 1852, p. 43. 

 Le Tamatia brum, Le Vail. Ois. de Par. v. 2. pi. 43. 

 Buccofuscus, Vieill. N. D. d'H. N. iii. 239; Vieill. Enc. Meth. 1419. 

 Tamatia fusca. Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 168. 



Monasa fusca, Gray's Gen. i. p. 74 (pars); Bp. Consp. Av. p. 147 (pars). 

 Malacoptila fusca. Gray, List of Gen. (1841) p. 13. 



M. brunnea clare fulvo striata: macula utrinque frontali et magna 

 triangulari superpectorali albis : ventre obscure fulvescente : 

 pedibus albidis : rostro nigro basi aurantio. 



Ix)ng. tota 6"5 ; alse 3*6; caudse 2"7. 



Hab. in Cayenna (Le Vail.) ; Rio Nigro (A. W.). 



This species has been much confounded with M. torquata. 

 M. de Lafresnaye in the ' Revue Zoologique,' and Mr. Strickland 

 in the ' Contributions to Ornithology,' have clearly pointed out 

 the differences between them, which will be sufficientiv obvious 



