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Monasa atra Gray, List Fiss. Brit. Mus., 1848, p. 49; Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 

 1871, p. 22. 



Monacha nigra ScLATER, Mon. Jacamars and Puff-birds, 1882, p. 145, pi. 48; 

 Id., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 203. 



Monasa nigra Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, p. 103 (Mun- 

 duapo, Orinoco region and La Pricion; La Union, etc., Caura R., Venezuela); 

 Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, p. 279 (Cayenne); Snethlage, Bol. Mus. 

 Goeldi, VIII, 1914, p. 240 (Maracay; Cunany; Rio Jary; Obidos; Rio Ja- 

 munda, northern Brazil); Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 

 P- 395. in key; Cherrie, Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci., Sci. Bull., II, No. 

 6, 1916, p. 322 (Mouth of Meta River and above; San Feliz River, Orinoco 

 region, Venezuela); Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., LXII, 

 No. 2, 1918, p. 55 (Paramaribo, Lelydorp, and Javaweg, Surinam). 



Monasa niger Chubb, Bds. Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, p. 477. 



Range: The Guianas, Venezuela and northern Brazil. 



ti2: Surinam (Javaweg) 2; British Guiana (Potaro i, Demerara 

 R. I, "British Guiana" 4), Brazil (Base of Serra da Lua, near Boa Vista, 

 Rio Branco 3; Serra Grande, Rio Branco i). 



Monasa flavirostris Strickland. Yellow-billed Nun Bird. 



Monasa flavirostris Strickland, in Jardine's Contr. Om., 1850, p. 47, pi. 48 

 (Peru); Taczanowski, Orn. P^rou, III, 1886, p. 132; Goodfellow, Ibis 

 1902, p. 213 (Coca, Ecuador); Snethlage, Bol. Mus. Goeldi, VIII, 1914, p. 

 241 (Rio Purus, Brazil); Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 

 p. 395, in key; Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 1917, p. 344 

 (La Morelia; Florencia; Villavicencio; Buena Vista, Colombia). 



Monacha flavirostris Sclater, Mon. Jacamars and Pufl-birds, 1882, p. 149, pi. 

 49; Id., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 204 (Colombia; Sarayacu, Ec- 

 uador; Chyavetas, Peru). 



Range: Eastern Peru, Ecuador, western Brazil (Rio Purus) and 

 eastern Colombia. 



*Monasa morphoeus morphoeus (Hahnand Kuster). White-bearded 



Nun Bird, 

 Bucco tnorphceus Hahn and Kuster, Vog. aus Asien, Lief XIV, 1822, p. i, pi. 



2 ("Brasilien"). 

 Monasa personata Vieillot, Gal. Ois., 1820-25, P- 23, pi. 36. 

 Bucco leucops Lichtenstein, Vers. Doubl., 1823, p. 8 (Brazil). 

 T[amatia] leucops Swainson, Bds. Brazil and Mexico, 1841, pi. 12. 

 Bucco albifrons Spix, Av. Bras., I, 1824, p. 53, pi. 41, fig. i (Piauhy, Brazil). 

 Monacha morpheus Sclater, Mon. Jacamars and Pufl-birds, 1882, p. 151, pi. 



50; Id., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XIX, 1891, p. 204 (Bahia and Lower Amazons). 

 Monasa morphoeus Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XII, 1905, p. 297 (Pard); Id., Abh. 



K. Bayer. Wiss., XXII, 1906, p. 599 (Spix's Types); Snethlage, Bol. 



Mus., Goeldi, VIII, 1914, p. 241 (Pard; RioGauma; Rio Capim; Rio Acara; 



Rio Tocantins; Rio Tapajoz, etc.); Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 



VI, 1914, p. 394, in key. 



