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716 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. \Tol.Y. 



1862. SCLATER, P. L. On a New Species of Malacoptila [M. poliopsia] from Western 



Ecuador. < P. ^, >S., sxx, 1862, pp. 86, 87, pi. viii. 



1863. GOFFIN, A. Buccoues. <^Mus. Hist. Nat. Pays-^as, 2<^ livr., Janv., 1863, pp. 



1-66; 3«livr., 1863, pp. 67-98. 



The group "Buccones" of this author, who may have caught a spirit of retrograde classifi- 

 cation from the Director of the Leyden Museum, consists of the two very distinct families of 

 Oapitonidce and JBucconidce, — the distiuction between which, however, is recognized by the 

 primary division of the group into two, according as the reotrices are 10 ( Capitonidce) or 12 

 (Bueconidce) in number; equivalent respectively to the "scansorial" and "fissirostral" 

 Barbets. Of the former are treated 11 spp. of Pogonorhynchus, 34 of Megalaima, 1 Tetragon- 

 ops, 11 of Oapito, and 1 Galorhamphus. Of the latter are given 11 spp. of Bucco, 4 of Mala- 

 coptila, B of Monasa, and 1 of Ohelidoptera. The groups are, together, represented by 300 

 specimens in the Leyden Museum. Various species, not represented in the Collection, are 

 also treated in the foot-notes. 



1868. SCLATEK, P. L., and Salvin, O. Descriptions of New or Little-known American 

 Birds of the Families Fringillidse, Oxyrhamphidse, Bucconidse, and Strigidse. 

 < P. Z. S., xxxvi, 1868, pp. 322-329, pi. xxix. 

 Monasa grandior, sp. n., p. 327. 



