GALBULA LEUCOGASTRA. 



THE WHITE-BELLIED JACAMAR. 

 PLATE IX. 



Le Jacamar a ventre hlanc, LevailL Prom, et Guep. Suppl. p. 46, t. H (1807). 



Galbula leucogastra, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xvi. p. 444 (1817). 



Galhula leucogastra, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1326 (1823). 



Galbula albiventris, Cuv. Regn. An. i. p. 448 (1829). 



Galhula alhiventer, Sw. An. in Men. p. 328 (1838). 



Galhula leucogaster, Gray et Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 83, et 



Galhula albiventris, Gray et Mitch, ibid. t. xxix. (1847). 



Galbula alhiventer, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 717 (1848). 



Galhula leucogastra. Gray, List of Fiss. B. M. p. 67 (1848). 



Galhula leucogaster, Bp. Consp. i. p. 152, et 



Galhula cenea, Temm. MS., teste Bp. ibid. (1850). 



Galbula leucogastra. Cab. in Ersch u. Grub. Enc. sect. 1, Iii. p. 309 (1851). 



Galhula leucogastra, Cassin, Cat. Hale. p. 18 (1852). 



Galbula leucogastra, Eeich. Handb. d. sp. Orn. p. 87 (1852). 



Galhula leucogastra, Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 32, et Syn. Galb. p. 6 (1852). 



Galbula leucogastra, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). 



Galhula leucogastra, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 14. 



Galhula leucogastra, Pelz. Sitz. Ak. Wien, xx. p. 517 (1856). 



Galhula leucogastra, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 267 (1862). 



Caucalias leucogaster. Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 218 (1863). 



Galbula leucogastra, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 582. 



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



Galbula leucogastra, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 105 (1873). 



Supr^ metallice -viridis cupreo lavata^ pileo magis cserulescente ; alis nigris, secundariis et tectricibus extus 

 dorso concoloribus ; subtus mento nigro; plaga gutturis triangular! et ventre imo necnon remigum 

 marginibus internis albis ; pectore dorso concolori ; Cauda gracilis cuneata, subtus cineraceo-nigra, 

 suprfl seneo-viridi lavata, rectricibus lateralibus albo anguste terminatis ; rostro et pedibus nigris : long, 

 tota 7"5, alse 2"9, caudae 3" 7, rostri a rictu V7. Fern, mari similis, sed crassitie paulo miuore et guttui'e 

 et ventre oclaraceis diversa. 



Hab. in Guiana, Cayenna, et Amazonia inf eriore. 



In the year 1806 the celebrated French traveller and naturalist Francois Levaillant completed 

 his great illustrated work on the Birds of Paradise, to which were added monographs of the 

 Rollers, Toucans, Barbets, and Jacamars. In the following year Levaillant issued a tliii-d 

 Scl. Jac. & Puffb. No. Y.— January, 1880. f 



