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*Capito niger (Miiller). Black-spotted Barbet. 



Bucco niger Muller, Syst. Nat., Suppl., 1776, p. 89 (Cayenne). 



Capita niger Marsh.\ll, Mon. CapitonidEe, 1871, p. 157, pi. 63; Shelley, Cat. 

 Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. iii; Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 280 

 (Cayenne); Snethlage, Bol. Mus. Goeldi, VIII, 1914, p. 217 (Obidos, Rio 

 Jamunda, Brazil); Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 320, 

 in key (Guiana, Surinam and Cayenne); Chubb, Bds. Brit. Guiana, I, 1914, 

 p. 450 (Guiana, Cayenne and Venezuela); Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., LXII, No. 2, I9i8,p. 56; (Paramaribo, Lilydorp, etc., Surinam). 



Range: TheGtdanas, "Venezuela'V'North Brazil (Rio Jamunda)".'' 

 3: British Guiana (Demerara R.) i; Surinam (near Paramaribo) 2. 



*Capito peruvianus (Cuvier). Peruvian Barbet. 



(?) Bucco peruvianus Cuvier, Regne Anim., 1817, p. 428, footnote (Peru; based 

 on Le Barbu orange de Perou, Levaillant, Barbus, pi. 27). 



Capita peruvanius Sclater, Cat. Am. Bds., 1862, p. 329, part; Ridgway, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 321, in key. 



Mycropagan aureus Temminxk, Pi. Col., livr. 83, 1830, p. 2. 



(?) Capita amazanicus Deville and Des Murs, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1849, p. 171 

 (Ega and Santa Maria, eastern Peru); Sclater, Ibis, 1861, p. 186. 



(?) Micropagon amazanicus Des Murs, Zool. Voy. Castelnau, Ois. 1855, p. 28. 



Range: Eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, 

 i: Peru (Yahuas Terr.). 



Capito aurantiiventris Ridgway. Orange-vented Barbet. 



Capita aurantiiventris Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXV, 1912, p. 87 (Up- 

 per Amazon Valley?, probably Rio Negro or Rio Tapajos); Id., Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 321, in key. 



(?) Capito amazanicus Deville and Des Murs, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1849, p. 171, 

 part (?). 



(?) Micropagon amazonicus Des Murs, Zool. Voy. Castelnau, Ois., 1855, p. 28, 

 part. 



Range: Upper Amazon Valley; eastern Peru? 

 *Capito auratus auratus (Dumont). Gold-fronted Barbet. 



Bucco auratus Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat., IV, 1816, p. 54 (Peru). 



Capito auratus Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 549 (Peru); Men- 



egaux , Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., Paris, 1908, p. 108 (Ecuador). 

 Bucca punctatus Des Murs, Icon. Om., 1846, pi. 20. 

 Capito punctatus Shelley, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, i89i,p. ii2;Goodfellow, 



Ibis, 1902, p. 218 (Ecuador). 

 Capito auratus auratus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 321, 



in key; Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, p. 326 (La 



Morelia; Florencia; Villavicencio; Buena Vista, Colombia); Hellmayr, Nov. 



Zool., XIV, 1907, p. 82. 



" Chubb, /. c. 

 ^ Snethlage, /. c. 



