BUCCO BICINCTUS. 



THE DOUBLY BANDED PUFF-BIED. 

 PLATE XXX. 



Tamatia bicincta, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 80. 



Tamatia hitorquata, Sw. An. in Men. p. 327 (1838). 



Bucco bicincfus, Gray et Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 74 (1846). 



Bucco bicincfus, Gray, List of Fiss. B. M. p. 48 (1848). 



Capito bicincta, Bp. Consp. i. p. 146 (1850). 



Bucco bicinctus, Scl. Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 361 (1854). 



Bucco bicinctus, Scl. Syn. Bucc. p. 11, t. 2 (1854). 



Chaunornis bicincta, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). 



Bucco bicinctus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 196. 



Bucco bicinctus, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 271 (1862). 



Hypnelus bicinctus. Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 143 (1863). 



Bucco bicinctus, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 168. 



Bucco bicinctus, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 628. 



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



Suprk fuscus fulvescenti variegatus ; fronte, loris et regione auriculari albis ; subtus ochraceo-rufus, vitta altera 

 pectorali altera ventrali et maculis quibusdam lateralibus nigris ; subalaribus et remigum marginibus 

 internis albis cinnamomeo perfusis ; rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 8*0, alse 3"5, caudse 3'2, rostri I'o. 

 Fern, mari similis. 



Hab. in Venezuela littorali. 



This Puff-bird has likewise been provided by naturalists with two different specific names, of 

 which, according to orthodox practice, I employ the one first in point of date. In 1836 it was 

 described by Mr. Gould at one of the meetings of the Zoological Society of London under the 

 name Tamatia bicincta. Two years subsequently Mr. Swainson published a description of it in 

 the appendix to his volume on Animals in Menageries (to which he gave the curious title of 

 " Two Centenaries and a quarter of new or little-known Birds "), under the homonym Tamatia 

 bitorquata. 



Mr. Swainson gives " Trinidad " as the locality of his Tamatia bitorquata ; and in my 

 ' Synopsis of the Bucconidse ' I also stated Trinidad as within the range of this species, u])on 

 the faith of specimens of it contained in the series of bird-skins from that island formerly 

 presented to the Zoological Society of London by Lord' Harris. But I have since ascertained 

 that the large collections imported into London as " Trinidad skins," as also other collections to 

 which the same locality is attributed, are really received from the opposite terra firma of 



