BUCCO STUIATIPECTUS. 



THE STRIPED PUFF-BIED. 

 PLATE XXXIII. 



Bucco striatifpectus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1853, p. 123. 



Bucco striatipectus, Scl. Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 364 (1854). 



Bucco striati pectus, Scl. Syn. Bucc. p. 14 (1854). 



^^Nyctactesflammulatus,Yexx" Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). 



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



Bucco maculatus, Pelz. Sitz. Ak. Wien, xx. p. 509 (1856). 



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



Wystalus striatipectus, Cab. et Hein. Mas. Hein. iv. p. 140 (1863). 



Bucco maculatus, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 22 (1871). 



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



Bucco striatipectus, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 633. 



Supra nigrescens, alis caudaque magis brunnescentibus, omnino fusco maculatus; loris, superciliis et torque 

 colli postici ex cinnamomeo albidis ; subtus albus^, cervice antica clare cinnamomeo-rufa ; pectore et 

 ventris lateribus nigro striatis ; ventre medio et mento pure albis ; caud^ nigrS,, fusco regulariter trans- 

 vittata ; subalaribus et remigum marginibus internis albis ; rostro rubro, culmine et basi nigris ; 

 pedibus plumbeis : long, tota 8"0, alee Z2, caudse 2"8j rostri \'7. Fern, mari similis. 



Hab. in Bolivia orientali et in parte Brasiliee adjacente. 



Obs. Species B. maculato omnino similis, et ventris maculis elongatis striiformibus nee rotundatis soliim 

 diversa. 



Some thirty years ago the late Mr. Argent, of Bishopsgate, then and for long afterwards well 

 known as a natural-history dealer, had in his hands a fine series of Bolivian bird-skins, of which 

 I was never able to ascertain the exact history. The skins were all of a peculiar " make," and 

 were labelled with little square-cut paper tickets, upon which the sex and other particulars were 

 given in Spanish. Mr. G. E. Gray had the first pick of this collection for the British Museum, 

 whilst others fell to the share of the late Mr. H. E. Strickland and myself. Amongst the latter 

 were two examples of the present Bucco, of which Mr. Strickland obtained one, and the other 

 came ultimately into my possession. As I had only recently described this species from examples 

 in the Derby Museum (probably obtained in Bolivia by Bridges), I was much pleased with this 

 acquisition, which, up to the present time, is the only example of this Puff-bird I have been abk> 

 to obtain. Mr. Strickland's specimen, which is nearly sitailar to mine, is now in the Strickland 

 collection at Cambridge. 



During his sojourn in Mato Grosso in the years 1825-29, Natterer collected ten examples 

 Scl. Jac. & Puffb. No. XIY.— November, 1880. p 



