Order SCANSORES. 



Suborder CAPITONES. 

 Family CAPITONIDiE. The Barbets 



Genus CAPITO Vieillot." 



Capita Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 27 (Type Bucco cayennensis Gmelm = Bucco 

 niger Muller). 



*Capito aurovirens {Cuvier). Plaintive Barbet. 



Bucco aurovirens Cuvier, Rdgne Anim., ed. 2, I, 1829, p. 458 (Peru). 



Micropogon aurovirens Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, p. 120. 



Capita aurovirens Gray, Gen. Bds., II, 1846, p. 430; Marshall, Mon. Capi- 

 tonidae, 1871, p. 155, pi. 62; Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, 

 p. 108; Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XIV, 1907, p. 81 (Teffe); von Ihering, 

 Revis. Mus. Paulista, VI, 1904, p. 446 (Rio Jurua); Snethlage, Bol. Mus. 

 Goeldi, VIII, 1914, p. 217 (Alto Rio Purus); Ridgway, Bull. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 322, in key; Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXVI, 1917, p. 324 (La Morelia, Colombia). 



Range: Eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, Colombia (Morelia) and 

 northwestern Brazil. 



i: Peru (Rio Ucayali). 



Capito maculi-coronatus maculi-coronatus Lawrence. Black-throated 

 Barbet. 



Capita maculi-coronatus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., CII, 1862, 



p. 300 (Lion Hill?, Panama). 

 Capita maculicoronatus Sclater, Ibis, 1862, pl.i; Marshall, Mon. Capiton- 



idae, 1871, p. 153, pi. 61; Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 109, 



part; Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1896, p. 548, part; 



Bangs, Proc. N. E. Zool. Club, II, 1900, p. 18 (Loma del Leon, Panama); 



Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 322, in key. 

 Capito maculicoronatus maculicoronatus Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1918, p. 258 (Mt. Hope, Panama Canal Zone). 



Range: Panama (from Canal Zone westward). 

 2 : Panama. 



" Arrangement as adopted by Ridgway (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 

 1914, p. 320). Much uncertainty exists as to synonomy and relationships of several 

 forms, but any attempt to revise the genus without much larger series of specimens 

 (with proper data) representing the various supposed species, than is at present 

 available, would only add to the confusion. 



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