BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. iJtjy 



Genus BRACHYGALBA Bonaparte. 



Bradiygalba Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 129 (Consp. Volucr. Zygod., 



1854, 13). (Type, B. albiventris Boiiaparte=GaZ5uZa higubris Swainson.) 

 Brachigalba (emendation) Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 382 (p. 16 of 



reprint). (Says B. alhigularis is type.) 

 Brachygalbula (emendation) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 267 (in synonymy 



of Bradiygalba albigularis). 

 Brachycex"' Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, April, 1863, 214 (to 



replace Brachygalba Bonaparte, on grounds of purism). 



Small Galbulidse (length about 138-183 mm.) with only ten reo- 

 trices (the sixth pair wanting), tail subtrmicate, toes ifour, and feath- 

 ering of head normal. 



Bill about twice as long as head, straight, compressed (except at 

 base), attenuate terminally, the culmen and gonys both sharply 

 ridged. Nostril exposed, obliquely horizontal, in lower anterior por- 

 tion of nasal fossa, overhimg by a very broad operculum. Rictal and 

 frontal bristles well developed. Wing moderately long, with longest 

 primaries exceeding distal secondaries by about half the length of bill; 

 sixth and seventh primaries longest (the fifth and eighth but little 

 shorter), the tenth (outermost) less than one-third as long as the 

 longest, the ninth a little longer than distal secondaries. Tail shorter 

 than distance from bend of wing to tip of proximal secondaries but 

 longer than distance from bend to tip of distal secondaries, sub- 

 truncate or sUghtly rounded; rectrices ten, the sixth pair wanting. 

 Tarsus about one-fourth as long as distance from nostril to tip of 

 maxilla, unfeathered, except extreme upper part in front, the acro- 

 tarsium transversely scuteUate; toes four, the outer anterior one 

 (without claw) shghtly but decidedly longer than tarsus, the inner 

 posterior one very small. 



Plumage and coloration. — ^Lores naked; plumage of head normal. 

 Coloration duU, the wings and tail (sometimes chest and sides also) 

 slightly metallic. 



Range. — Eastern Panamd to BoUvia and central Brazil. (Six 

 species.) 



BRACHYGALBA SALMONI Sclater and Salvia. 



SALMON'S JAGAUAB. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum, hindneck, back, and scapulars plain 

 dusky grayish brown (dark fuscous) glossed with bronze-greenish 

 (less distinctly in worn plumage); rest of upper parts duU metallic 

 bronze-green or bluish bronze-green; auricular, suborbital, and malar 

 regions sooty blackish or fuscous-black; chin and throat pale buff or 



""Von ^paxOc (kurz, klein) und K^f {=idiui=KaJiaS) zu verandem vorschlagen.'' 

 (Cabanis and Heine.) 



3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 ^24 



