Bucco. 473 



325. Bucco capensis. 

 Collared Puff-bird. 



Bucco cajjensis Linn. Svst. Xat. 12th ed. i. p. 16S. 1766 CGuiana) ; 



Bra>X)ume & Chubb,* B. S. Ainer. i. p. 163, no. 160S, 1912. 

 Bucco coUaris Salvin, Ibis, 1SS6, p. 62 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, 



]Merume Mts., Eoraima, 3500 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. 



p. ISO, 1S91. 



Adult male. General colour above rufous, narrowly barred with 

 black ; the tail somewhat paler and the interspace.? between the 

 black bars wider ; sides of face and ear-coverts uniform pale 

 rufous, which extends across the hind-neck, where it forms a 

 collar ; this is followed by a black band on the hind-neck, which 

 widens out and forms a broad collar on the fore-neck ; primary 

 and secondary quills dark brown, edged with bufiy-white on the 

 basal portion of the primaries and by rufous on both webs of 

 the secondaries ; throat white ; abdomen white, washed with buff 

 more intensely on the flanks, under tail-coverts, and under wing- 

 coverts. 



Total length 175 mm., culmen 2i^, wing 81. tail bl, tarsus 16. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Ituribisi River. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, ^ing 82 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Ituribisi River, Bartica. Kamakabra 

 River, Bonasika River, Makauria River, Mazaruni River. Arwye 

 Kiver {McConnell colledion) ; Mount Roraima. Merume Mountains, 

 Kamakusa [Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. North Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, 



JlaOits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



326. Bucco macrorhynclius. 



Large-billed Puff-btrd. 



Bucco macrorht/nchug Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 406, 17S8 (Cayenne); 

 Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 719, 184S ; Salvin, Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 62 fCamacusa, Merume Mts., Koraima, 3oOO ft.); Sclater, Cat. 

 H. Brit. Mas. xix. p. 181, 1891 (British (Juiana); Braht.unie & 

 Chubb. B. S. Amcr. i. p. KW. no. UJ09, 1912. 



