BUCCO SUBTECTUS. 



THE NAEEOW-BANDED PUFF-BIED. 

 PLATE XXVII. 



Bucco subtectus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 296. 



Bucco tectus, Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. vii. p. 318 (1861). 



Bucco subtectus, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 270 (1862). 



Nothriscus subtectus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 147 (1863). 



Bucco subtectus, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 363. 



Bucco subtectus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 106 (1873). 



Bucco subtectus, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 536. 



Suprk niger, pilei antici plumarum maculis terminalibuSj striga capitis utrinque per oculos transeunte et 

 scapularium apicibus latis albisj subtiis albus, pectoris vitta angusta nigra, lateribus nigro-cinereis 

 albo mixtis ; Cauda nigi'a, rectricum lateralium fascia mediana e maculis quadratis in pogoniis interi- 

 oribus composita, necnon rectricum apicibus albis ; remigum pagiud inferiore obscure cineracea, horum 

 pogoniis internis basin versus albis : rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 5'9, alae 2'0, caudse 2-2, 

 rostri I'O. 



Hab. in jEquatori^ occidentali, Columbia boreali et in istbmo Panamensi. 



Obs. Species B. tecto valde similis, sed pileo postico immaculato, torque colli angustiore et crassitie paulo 

 minore plerumque distinguenda. 



Mr. Louis Frasee, a vrell-known collector, on his return from Guayaquil to Panama in 1859, 

 passed a few vreeks at Esmeraldas, the chief Pacific port of the northern part of Ecuador, which 

 had not been previously visited by any naturalist. Amongst the birds collected on this occasion, 

 of which I gave an account in a paper read before the Zoological Society in 1860, was a single 

 example of the present species of Bucco. This I proposed to call Bucco subtectus, as being a 

 closely allied representative form of the well-known B. tectus of the opposite shores of South 

 America. Mr. Eraser obtained but one example of this species, which he noticed as having the 

 irides hazel, and the bill, legs, and feet black. 



From the littoral of Western Ecuador Bucco subtectus, like many other species of the same 

 district, extends northwards into the Panamanic isthmus. Here numerous examples of it were 

 procured in 1861 and the following years by Mr. J. M'Leannan, the energetic trackmaster of 

 Lion-hill Station, on the Panama Railway. In 1876 Mr. Salvin received a single skin of the 

 same bird from his collector Arce, then in Veragua, which is the furthest locality in this direction 

 yet recorded for the present species. 



We have, however, lately obtained evidence of the extension of Bucco subtectus in another 



