Plate LXXYII: 



BUCCO STRI0LATU8. 



(STEIPED PUIT-BIED), 



0apito striolatus , ■ . . , Katt. in Mus. Vindob. 



Huceo striolatus . . . Pelzeln, Sitz. Acad. "Wien. xx. pp. 500, 509 (1856) et Orn. Bras. p. 22. 



Mystalm striolatus . . . Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 140. 



Supra fusco-nigricans, plumis omnibus rufescente marginatis et fasciatis : nucta lata capitis lateribus et torque 

 pectorali saturate ocbraceis nigro punctatis et striolatis ; loris et gula albicantibus : abdomiue sericeo-aibo, lateraliter 

 fulvescente tineto, ventre summo et bypocbondriis nigro distincte striolatis : subalaribus et remigum pogoniia 

 interioribus ad basin cinnamomeis ; cauda tota brunneseenti-nigra, rectricibus omnibus et in pogonio utroque ochraceo- 

 rufo frequenter trausfasciatis : rostro nigricante, tomiis et mandibulse basi flavicautibus : pedibus fuscis : long. 

 tota 7'5, alaB 3'3, caud» 3"1, rostri a rictu 1'6, tarsi 0'75. 



Hah. in prov. " Matogrosso" Brasil. int. {Natterer). 



This Puff-bIrd is one of the many ornithological discoveries made by that prince of 

 collectors, the late Johann Natterer, in the interior of Brazil. During his travels in the 

 province of J\lato-grosso, in the year 1826, Natterer pa.ssed the four months from July to 

 October at the sugar-plantation of the then deceased Captain Gama. This was sitiiated about 

 fifteen leagues from Villabella de Mato-grosso, in the forest district, either on the river Gua- 

 pore or not far from its banks. Here, and at a neighbouring station called " Dourado," 

 eight specimens of the present Bucco were obtained, but lay unnoticed in the stores of the 

 Vienna Museum, until they were described by Herr v. Pelzeln, in 1856. We are not aware 

 that the species has ever been met with by other collectors. 



Bucco striolatus is closely allied to B. racliatus of New Granada, B. striatipectus of Bolivia, 

 and B. maculatus of the coast-region of Brazil, but is readily distinguishable from all these 

 species on comparison. Its bill is comparatively short and widened at the base, as in B. radiatus ; 

 which, however, may be immediately distinguished by the absence of the ochraceous pectoral 

 band, and by its black nape. Both B. maculatus and its Bolivian representative B. stnatipecius 

 have longer, more attenuated bills, and have the neck below of a pure rufous, without any 

 lono'itudinal markings. 



Natterer's MS. notes, as published by Von Pelzeln, inform us that in this species the bill 

 in the living bird is olive-green, with the end and the basal half of the culm en blackish brown • 

 the iris he describes as dirty yellowish white, the feet as olive-green, the tarsi as rather brownish 

 above, the claws blackish. No details are given of its habits, but like other species of the 

 group, it probably frequents the higher trees of the dense forest. 



Our figure of this bird is taken from a Nattererian specimen now in Sclater's collection, 

 obtained in exchange from the Vienna Museum. It is a female, and Avas shot at Dourado on 

 the 6th July, 1826. 



Januakt, 1869. 



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