MALACOPTILA. MONASA. 477 



Total length 155 mm., culmen 18, wing 82, tail 60, tarsus 20. 



The female from which the description is taken was collected at 

 Bartica. 



Adult male. Similar to the female in the colour of the plumage. 

 Wing 85 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JS^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Bartica [McConnell collection). 



Extralimilal Range. Cayenne {Gmelin), Peru, Ecuador, 

 Colombia. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus MONASA Vieill. 



Monasa Yieillot, Anal. nouv. Orn. p. 27, 1816. Type 31. iiiger (P. L. S, 

 Mull.). 



This monotypic genus is distinguished by the larger size, the 

 compressed and curved bill, which is always red, the long tail, 

 and the slaty-black plumage. 



330. Monasa niger. 



Black Puff-bird. 



Cu cuius niger P. L. S. MUll. Syst. Nat. Suppl. ]). 90, 1776 (Cayenne). 

 Monasa tranquiUa Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 719, 181;8. 

 Monasa atra Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 63 (Camacusa, Merume Mts., River 



Ataparau). 

 Monacha nigra Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 203, 1891 (British 



Guiana); Lloyd, Timehri (2) xi. p. 6, 1897 (nestiiig-habits). 

 Monasa niger Brabom-ne & Chubb, B. S. Ainer. i. p. 167, no. 16-49, 



1912. 



"Red-billed Barbet " [Llogd). 



Adult male. General colour above and below blackish slate- 

 colour, rather paler on the abdomen ; lesser upper and under 

 wing-coverts white; median upper wing-coverts fringed with 

 white. Bill rod. 



Total length 260 nnn.jculmon 34, wing 126, tail ll'J, tarsus 2.). 



The male described was collected on the Kamakabra Uiver. 



Adult female. Like the adult male iti the colour of the plumage, 

 but slightly larger. Wing 137 nnn. 



Breeding-season. Unrecorded in IJiitish Guiana. 



