392 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Malacoptila panamensis (not of Lafresnaye) Boucabd, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud, 

 1878, 47 (San Carlos, Costa Rica).— Zbled6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1887 

 119, part (Guaitil, Angostura, and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — Sclatbb, Cal 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 196, part (Tucurriqui and Peje, Costa Rica).- 

 RicHMOND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 512 (Rio Escondido, Nica 

 ragua). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 516, par 

 (Guaitil, Angostura, Pacuare, Jimenez, Peje, and San Carlos, Costa Rica).- 

 (?)Undeewood, Ibis, 1896, 444 (Volcan de Miravalles, Costa Rica). 



Malacoptila costaricensis (not of Cabanis) Feantzius, Joum. fiir Om., 1869, 312 

 part (Pacuare, Costa Rica). 



[Malacoptila parwrnensis] a. Var. costaricensis Sclatbb, Cat. Am. Birds, xix 

 1891, 196, part (Tucurriqui and Peje, Costa Rica). 



(J>) Malacoptila fuliginosa Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, no. 947, Oct. 4 

 1893, 512, in text (Rio Escondido, e. Nicaragua; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.; e: 

 Ridgway, manuscript)." 



[ Malacoptila] fuliginosa Shabpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 198. 



Genus MONASA Vieillot. 



Monasa b "Vibillot, Analyse, 1816, 27. (Type, Coupon noir de Cayenne Buffon= 



Cueulvbs tranquillus Gmelin=C. niger Muller.) 

 Monassa (emendation) Swainson, Claesif. Birds, ii, 1837, 334. 

 Monastes (emendation) Nitzsch, Pterylographie, 1840, 135. 

 Monasta (emendation) CabAnis, in Wiegmann's Archiv fur Naturg., xiii, pt. 1 



1847, 347.— Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft i, 1863, 126. 

 Monaca (emendation) Temminck, PI. Col., iii, 1825, text to pi. 323, fig. 2. 

 Monacha (not of Fitzinger, 1833, nor Swainson, 1837) Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc 



Lond., June 21, 1881, 777 (emendation). 

 Afonarfon <: (not Monodon Linnaeus, Cuvier, Schweigg, or Gervais) "Vieillot,' 



Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., ix, pt. 1, 1815 (1816?), 42. (Type, Bucco cm 



ereus Gmelin.) 

 I/ypomix Waglee, Syst. Av., 1827, 159 [by count]. (Type, Cuculus tranquilla 



Gmelin=C. niger Muller.) 

 Scotocharis Glogee, in Froriep's Notizen, xvi, 1827, 277. (Type, Cuculus nige 



Muller.) 

 (?) BarbacouclYomT, Thierreich, i, 1831, 703. (Type, ?; species mentioned 



are Monasa tranquilla Vieillot, Bucco tenebrosus Lichtenstein, Cuculn 

 rvfalhinus Temminick, and Monasa per sonata Vieillot.) 



Large BucconidsB Qength about 230-280 mm.) with decurved 

 yellow, orange, or red bill and plain slate colored or blackish coloration 

 the forehead and chin sometimes whitish or fulvous, the smalle 

 wing-coverts sometimes partly white. 



Bill about as long as head or a little shorter, much deeper tha: 

 broad at nostrils, tapering rather rapidly (in lateral profile) towar 

 tip, which is distinctly though not strongly decurved ; culmen straighl 

 or nearly so, for basal half or more, strongly but not abruptly da 



o The type of M. fuliginosa remains imique in its very dark, sooty coloration, b 

 other specimen among the several hundred Central American examples examine 

 closely approaching it in this respect. 



& "fiovaaiic, qui solus vivit. " (Vieillot.) 



" Mivo;, single; iSthv, a tooth. (Richmond.) 



<J From Barbu+Coucou. (Richmond.) 



