BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 365 



J[acamerops\ grandis Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 84. — Reichbnbach, Handb., i, 



1852, 88, pi. 459, figs. 3282, 3283. 

 [Jacamerops] grandis Bonaparte, Oonsp. Av., i, 1850, 153; Ateneo Italiano, ii, 



1854, 128 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 1854, 13).— Gbay, Hand-list, i, 1869, 102, 



no. 1248.— ScLATEB and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 105. 

 LampropHla grandis Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 718; 



in Ersch. u. Grub. Enc, sec. 1, Iii, 1851, 310. 

 L[amproptila] grandis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 227. 

 [Lamproptila] grandis Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 211 



(Peru; Guiana; Cayenne). 

 Galbula jacamaciri Shaw, Nat. Misc., xx, 1819, pi. 833 (based on Le Jacamaciri 



Audebert and Vieillot, Ois. Dor., i, Hist. Nat. Jacam., 1802, 8 pi. 6). 

 Lamprotila platyrhyncha Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 336. 

 GalbulajacameriniBvuMEJSTSR, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 298. 

 G[albula] magna Voiqt, TMerreich, i, 1831, 678 (based on Le grand Jaeamar 



Levaillant). 

 (?) [Jacamerops] boersii Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 153 (based on Levaillant, 



Hist. Nat. Jac, pi. 53). 

 (7) Jacamerops isidori Deville, Rev. ZooL, 1849, 55 (Sarayacu and Pampa del 



Sacramento, e. Peru; coll. Paris Mus.). — Sclater, Synop. Galb., 1852, 9; 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 16. — Des Mues, Exped. de Oaatelnau, ZooL, 



Ois., 1855, pi. 10. — ^Hartlaub, Joum. fiir Om., 1857, 43. 

 (?) [Jajcamerops\ isidori Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 128 (Consp. Volucr. 



Zygod., 1854, 13).— Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 105. 

 (?) J[acam^ops] isidori Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Om., i, 1852, 88. 

 (?) Jacamerops isidord Des Mtjrs, Exped. de Castelnau, ZooL, Ois., 1855, 32 (Mision 



de Sarayacu, Rio Ucayali, and Pampa del Sacramento, e. Peru). 

 (?) L[amproptila] isidori Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 227 



(Pebas, e. Peru). 



Genus GALBULA Brisson. 



Galbula Brisson, Om., iv, 1760, 85. (Type, by tautonomy, Alcedo galbula 



Linnaeus.) 

 Auga<^ Billbeeg, Synop. Faunae Scand., i, part 2, 1828, tab. A. (New name for 



Galbula Brisson.) 

 Couca&s 6 Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 218. (Type, Galbula 



leucogastra Vieillot.) 



Medium-sized to rather small four-toed Galbulidse (length about 

 200-260 mm.) with the graduated taU longer than wing (but much 

 less than twice as long), bill narrower than deep at nostrils, and with 

 under parts of body not black. 



Bill long, slender, and compressed, much longer than head (exposed 

 culmen at least half as long as wing) ; culmen very faintly convex in 

 middle portion, not at aU deciuTred terminally, sharply ridged 

 throughout; gonys three to four times as long as mandibular rami, 

 straight to slightly concave, sharply ridged throughout, usually 

 slightly prominent basally; commissure straight to very faintly 



" Mykoj, I shine, glitter. (Richmond.) 



6 "Namen wir von KoumXlac (=tca(njS), entlehnten, gleichsam als Bindeglied 

 zwischen den Gattungen Urocex und Galbula erscheinen." (Cabanis and Heine.) 



