BEACHYGALBA LUGUBRIS. 



THE MOUENFUL JACAMAR. 

 PLATE XI. 



Galhula lugubris, Sw. An. in Men. p. 329 (1838). 



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



Galhula luguhris, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 718 (1848). 



Jacamaralcyon luguhris, Gray, List, of Fiss. B. M. p. 67 (1848). 



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



Galhula inornata, Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 32, et Syn. Galb. p. 7, et 



Jacamaralcyon luguhris, Scl. loc. cit. (1852). 



Jacamaralcyon inornata, Cassin, Cat. Hale. p. 18 (1852). 



Galhula clialcoptera, Reich. Handb. d. sp. Orn. p. 84, et 



Jacamaralcyon luguhris, Eeich. loc. cit. (1852). 



Brachygalha inornata, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 15. 



Galhula inornata, Pelz. Sitz. Ak. Wien, xx. p. 518, et 



''Galhula tristis, Natt. MS." teste Pelzeln, loc. cit. (1856). 



Brachygalha inornata, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 267 (1862). 



Brachycex luguhris. Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 215 (1863). 



Brachygalha inornata, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 582 et 978. 



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



Brachygalha inornata, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 105 (1873), 



Suprk nigricanti-fusca fere uriicolorj alls caiida et hujus tectricibus extus purpurascente seneo lavatis ; subtus 

 vix dilutior^ in pectore paulum rufescens ; abdomine medio albo^ crisso et lateribus saturate nigricanti- 

 fuscisj remigum macula interna ad basin alba; rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 7'0^ alee 2,'Q, 

 caudse 2,'0, rostri a rictu 1"8. Fern, mari similis, sed abdomine medio rufo, 



Hab. in Guiana, VenezueMj Colombia, et Amazonii. 



With the present species we commence a series of Jacamars which, although closely allied to 

 the preceding in every essential point of their structure, present sufficient differences, especially 

 as regards their short square tail and diminutive size, to entitle them to generic separation. In 

 1854 Prince Bonaparte, in his arrangement of the Jacamars given in his '• Conspectus Volucrum 

 Zygodactylorum,' designated them by the name Brachygalha. This very unclassically formed 

 compound Messrs. Cabanis and Heine in 1863 proposed to alter into Brachycex ; and it is, 

 indeed, somewhat doubtful whether we are not justified in violating the ordinary rules of 

 priority in dealing with such vile barbarisms. On the whole, however, Brachygalha is perhaps 

 sufficiently " like Latin " to pass muster. 



The Jacamar now before us, which is the earliest and best-known species of this little group, 

 was first described by Swainson in 1838 from a specimen procured by Schomburgk in British 



