GALBULA RUFO-YIRIDIS. 



THE EED-AND-GEEEN-TAILED JACAMAE. 

 PLATE III. 



Galhula viridis, Max. Beitr. iv. p. 436 (1832). 



Galhula ruficauda^ Sw. An. in Men. p. 327 (1838). 



Galhula ruficauda, Gray et Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 83 (1847). 



Galhula ruficauda, Gray, List of Fiss. B. M. p. 66 (1848). 



Galhula mfo-viridis, Cab. in Ersch u. Grub. Enc. sect. 1, lii. p. 308 (1851). 



Galhula maculicauda, Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 29, et Syn. Galb. p. 2 (1852). 



Galhula ruficauda, Eeich. Handb. d. sp. Orn. p. 86 (1852), 



Galhula maculicauda, Cassin, Cat. Hale. p. 17 (1852). 



Galhula maculicauda, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). 



Galhula rufo-viridis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 13. 



Galhula viridis, Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 299, et 



Galhula ruficauda, ibid. p. 300 (1856). 



Galhula maculicauda, Pelz. Sitz. Ak. Wien, xx. p. 516 (1856). 



Galhula rufo-viridis, Scl. Cat. A. B. p, 266 (1862). 



Galhula ritfo-viridis. Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 220 (1863). 



Galhula rufo-viridis, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 581. 



Galhula rufo-viridis, Eeinh. Fuglef. Bras. Camp. p. 122 (1870). 



Galhula maculicauda, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 24 (1871). 



Galhula nfo-viridis, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 104 (1873). 



Galhula rufo-viridis, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 633. 



Suprk cupreo-viridis ; alls nigris^ tectricibus et secundariis extus dorso concoloribus ; subtixs gutture albo^ 

 torque pectoral! Isete viridi^ ventre et subalaribus castaneis ; caudse rectricibus mediis viridibus^ late- 

 ralibus castaneis, secundo et tertio pari fuscescente Aoridi terminatis ; rostro nigro ; pedibus rubris, 

 unguibus nigris : long, tota 9'0, alse 3'2, caoidae 3"8j rostri a rictu 2*1. Fern, marl similis, sed gutture 

 rufescente et ventre dilutius castaneo. 



Hab. in Brasilia meridionali et Bolivia occidentali. 



Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied, was certainly one of the best observers that have ever written on 

 Neotropical ornithology ; and his volumes on the Natural History of Brazil will always remain a 

 proof of what excellent work may be accomplished with care and energy by a non-professional 

 naturalist. But the Prince was not so well acquainted with the objects described by former 

 authors as with those which he had himself met with, and in consequence has often made 

 mistakes in the determination of his species. Such was the case as regards the present Jacamar, 

 which he referred to the Galhula viridis of Latham, although it belongs to quite a different 

 species. A somewhat similar error was committed by Swainson, who in 1838 described this bird 



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