FAM. GALBULIDA 
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1. SUBFAM. GALBULINA: 
Characters. Bill straight, lengthened, compressed, sharp-pointed; nostrils, rounded, 
naked except for a few covering bristles, external rectrix abnormally small, or sometimes alto- 
gether absent. 
KEY OF THE GENERA OF THE GALBULIN4 
A. Tail elongated, more or less graduated. 
an Maddle yectvices muchelongated =~ 5. =. - - . | . = . . &. Genus URocArBAY 
b. Middle rectrices slightly elongated 
B. Tail short, squared. 
c. External rectrix absent. 
a'. Hund-toc present 
b!. Hind-toc absent . 
d. External vectvix present . 
1) 
. Genus GALBULA. 
. Genus BRACHYGALBA. 
. Genus JACAMARALCYON. 
nN & Ww 
. Genus GALBALCYRHYNCHUS. 
2. SUBFAM. JACAMEROPIN = 
Characters. Bill slightly incurved, much widened at the base; nostrils with an 
internal membrane; outer rectrices of medium size, not quite half so long as the central 
pair . Pere ers es Ske Cae Gan A> to) Gr en en LO Gems HIACAMIBRORSs 
1. SUBFAM. GALBULINA: 
1. GENUS UROGALBA BONAPARTE 
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Urogalba Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. Zygod. p. 13 (1854). 
Urocex Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. vol. 4, p. 216 (1863). 
KEY OF THE SPECIES 
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1. Urogalba paradisea Linnzus (Plate, Figs. 3, 4). Guiana. 
Alcedo paradisea Linnzeus, Syst. Nat. Vol. 1, p. 181 ( ). ; 
Urogalba paradisea Sclater, Mon. Jacam. p. 1, pl. 1, f. 1 (1882); id. Cat. Birds, Vol. 19, 
p- 162 (1891). 
2. Urogalba amazonum Sclater. Lower Amazonia. 
Urogalba amazonum Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1855, p. 14; id. Mon. Jacam. p. 5, 
pl. 1, f. 2 (1882). 
