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Capito hartlaubi (not of Lafresnaye, 1845) Lawkbnce, Arm. Lye. N. Y., is, 1868, 

 130 (Barrajica, Costa Kica). — Frantzius, Joum. fiir Orn., 1869, 363 (Costa 

 Rica). 



Capito salvini Shbllbt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 119, pi. 5, fig. 4 (Panama 

 to Costa Eica; coll. Brit. Mus.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, ii, 1896, 549 (Barranca, Turrialba, Navarro de Cartago, Birris and 

 Jimenez, Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. 

 Club, iii, 1902, 32 (Boquete and Volcan de Chiriqui, 4000-5000 ft.). 



Capito bourcieri salvini Cabhikek, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 570 (Costa Eica; 

 crit.). 



Genus CAPITO Vieillot. 



Capito Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 27. (Type, Tamatia i tile et gorge rouge Bufton= 



Bucco cayannensis Gmelin=B. niger Muller.) 

 Nystastes Gloger, in Froriep's Notizen, xvi, 1827, 277. (Type, Bucco niger 



Muller.) 

 Mycropogon (not Micropogon Boie, 1826) Temminck, PI. Col., livr. 83, Feb., 1830; 



livr. 101-102, 1839, Tabl. M6tli., p. 55. (Type, Bucco cayannensis Gmelin= 



B. m^reT- Muller.) 

 Micropogon (emendation?) Temminck, PI. Col., livr. 101-102, 1839, Tabl. M6tb., 



p. 55. 

 Alias 2 Billbeeg, Synop. Faunae Scand., i, pars. 2, 1828, tab. A. (New name for 



Cayito Vieillot.) 



Similar to Eubucco but bill relatively shorter and much stouter, 

 nostrils circular, mesorhinium much broader, tail less than two-thirds 

 as long as wing, with outermost rectrices relatively much longer, 

 outermost (tenth) primary much narrower and relatively shorter, 

 and style of coloration very different, the back, etc., never plain green, 

 but black (plain ohve in one species), usually streaked and otherwise 

 variegated with yellow or orange, and the sexes aHke except in color- 

 ation of underparts. 



Bill shorter than head, subcorneal, moderately compressed an- 

 teriorly, broad and depressed basally (width at base about one and a 

 half times its depth at same point), the cuhnen gradually decurved 

 from near base, indistinctly ridged terminally, broadly rounded or 

 flattened basally (on mesorhinium); gonys about as long as man- 

 dibular rami (sometimes slightly longer), straight or faintly convex, 

 ascending terminally, indistinctly ridged (more distinctly so ter- 

 minally) ; tomia smooth, the maxillary tomium more or less strongly 

 concave anteriorly, gradually but strongly deflexed and more or 

 less convex posteriorly. Nostril small, circular, exposed. Latero- 

 frontal antiae with several slender antrorse bristles projected forward 

 over nostrils, the rictus and chin with similar but smaller bristles. 

 Orbital region partly (usually for greater part) naked. Wing short, 

 very concave beneath, the longest primaries exceeding secondaries by 

 much less than length of exposed culmen; sixth and seventh, fifth, 

 sixth, and seventh, or fourth to seventh primaries longest, the eighth 

 a little shorter, the ninth shorter than first, the tenth (outermost) less 



a 'A, very; pXa^to, I am foolish, silly. (Richmond.) 



