BEACHYGALBA ALBIGULABIS. 



THE WHITE-THEOATED JACAMAE. 

 PLATE XIV. 



Galhula alhogularis, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 54, t. 57. fig, 1 (1824). 



Galhula alhogularis, Gray & Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 83 (1847). 



Galhula alhigularis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 152 (1850). 



Galhula alhigularis, Cab. in Ersch u. Grnb. Enc. sect. 1, lii. p. 309 (1851). 



Galhula alhigularis, Eeich. Handb. d. sp. Orn. p. 84 (1852). 



JBrachygalha alhigularis, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). 



Galhula alhogularis, Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 302 (1856). 



Brachygalha alhigularis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 262. 



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



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



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



Obscure fuliginosa; dorso, alls extus, nisi in primariis^ et caudse marginibus seneo-viridibus j superciliis, 

 capitis lateribus et gula angusta albis ; abdomine nigro seneo-viridi tincto^ et plaga media ferruginea 

 instructo ; remigum pagina inferiore ad basin albo transvittata ; rostro albo ; pedibus nigris : long, 

 tota 6'2j alse 2'7, caudse 2'1, rostri a rictu 2*4. 



Hab. in Amazonia superiore. 



In" 1824, among the many new birds which were the results of the celebrated Brazilian 

 Expedition of Spix and Martins, Spix described and figured a small Jacamar, of which he 

 gave the locality as " Para," under the name Galhula alhigularis. Some years ago I examined 

 the typical specimen of Spix's species in the Koyal Museum at Munich, and came to the 

 conclusion, as I stated in my Synopsis of the Jacamars published in 1853, that it was only 

 a young example of JJrogalha paradisea. But a few years afterwards I was led to believe 

 that this conclusion was wrong, and that Spix's Galhula alhigula?'is, though not to be found 

 at Para, was an authentic species. In a collection of birds transmitted from Ega, on the Uj)per 

 Amazons, by Mr. H. W. Bates in 1857, of which I gave an account in the 'Proceedings' of the 

 Zoological Society of London for that year, were two examples of a small Jacamar from the Hio 

 Javari. On examining these — one of which I obtained for my own collection, while the other 

 passed into that of the British Museum — and comparing them with Spix's description of his 

 Galhula alhigularis, 1 was obliged to acknowledge that my former supposition was probably 

 erroneous. The Eio-Javari bird seemed to fit Spix's description very fairly, and, as Spix's 

 localities are notoriously not very reliable, was probably the same as that which he obtained, 

 not at Para, but either at Ega or somewhere in the Upper-Amazonian district. No other 



