450 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



from all other birds. They are distributed chiefly in Africa and 

 Asia, and two genera and twenty-two species occur in Central and 

 South America, one of which is represented in British Guiana. 



(Icnus CAPITO Vieill. 



Capita Vieillot, Anal. nouv. Orn. p. 27, 181(3. Tvpe C. ni(/ei' (P. L. S. 

 Miill.). 



Tiie members of this genus have ten tail-feathers, like all f)ther 

 Barbets, and are distinguished by having the lateral feathers shorter 

 than the middle ones. 



308. Capito niger. 

 Black-spotted Barbet. 



Bucco niffer P. L. S. Miill. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 89, 1776 (Cayenne). 



Capito niger Salvin, Ibis, 1&8G, p. 66 (Camacusa, Barfcica Grove, Ata- 

 purau Kiver) ; Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. Ill, 1891 (Bartica 

 Grove, Atapurau River) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 154, 

 no. 1508, 1912. 



Capito cayennensis Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 720, 1848. 



Adult male. U[)per surface black, including the sides of the 

 face, sides of neck, hinder crown, hind-neck, mantle, back, wings, 

 and tail with a yellowish-white band across the greater upper 

 wing-coverts, and another on the sides of the crown ; some of the 

 feathers on the mantle are fringed with yellowish white ; the 

 feathers on the crown golden-yellow with dark bases ; forehead 

 and throat-patch bright red ; breast and abdomen straw-yellow 

 with obsolete brown spots on the under tail-coverts and ovate 

 black spots on the flanks ; under win-^-coverts yellowish white, as 

 are also the inner edges of the quills. 



Total length 164 mm., culmen 21, wing 80, tail 46, tarsus 24. 



The male from which the (lescri})tion is taken was collected on 

 the Mazaruni River. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the lower 

 throat and breast thickly spotted with black, and in being broadly 

 streaked with the same colour on the sides of the body. 



Hreediug-seoson . Uidvuown in British (Ttuiana. 



Sest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



