MALACOPTILA FULYIGULARIS. 



THE BEOWN-THEOATED SOFT-WING. 

 PLATE XLII. 



'■'Lypornix nifa, Wagl.," Tsch. Faun. Per., Aves, pp. 41, 257 (1844-46). 



Malacoptila fulvogularis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1853, p. 123. 



Malacoptila fulwgularis, Scl. Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 476 (1854). 



Malacoptila fulvogularis, Scl. Syn. Biicc. p. 16 (1854). 



Malacoptila pyrrholcema, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). 



Malacoptila fulvigularis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 196. 



Malacoptila fulvigularis. Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 131 (1863). 



Malacoptila fulvogularis, Scl. Nomencl. p. 106 (1873). 



Malacoptila fulvogularis, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 633. 



Supra fusca colore pallidiore variegata ; capite toto, dorso superiore^ et cervicis lateribus nigrieantibuSj striis 

 scapas plumarum occupantibus albis ornatis; plumis rictalibus albo variegatis; loris et gutture toto 

 fulvis ; pectore et lateribus nigris, striis similibus albis sed latioribus ornatis ; ventre imo et crisso 

 fulvescenti-albidis ; subalaribus et remigum marginibus interioribus pallide fulvis ; cauda tota fusce- 

 scenti-cineracea, subtiis dHutiore : long, tota 7'2, alae 3'9, caudse rectr. med. 3*9^ lat. 2*5, rostri 1*2. 



Hab. in Boliviae et Peruviae reg. sylv. oriental!. 



Tnfe late Mr. Thomas Bridges, Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society of London, was 

 long well known as a most successful and enterprising collector of animals, and an excellent 

 observer of their habits. Octodon hridgesi amongst the mammals, and Brymornis hridgesi 

 amongst the birds, commemorate his name as regards the two classes to which he paid special 

 attention, and are the more appropriately termed, as he was the original discoverer of both 

 of them. 



The specimens collected by Mr. Bridges in 1841 and the following years in the republics of 

 Chili and Bolivia passed mostly into the collection of the British Museum and into that of the 

 then Earl of Derby, a most munificent patron of zoology. Unfortunately no pains were taken 

 to record their localities correctly, and too often we find examples actually obtained in one of 

 these countries credited to the other. Nor were the specimens obtained by Mr. Bridges ever 

 worked out ; so that many species actually first discovered by him were subsequently described 

 from examples obtained by later investigators. 



It was from one of Mr. Bridges's specimens, originally in the Knowsley collection, but after 

 the death of Lord Derby removed, along with the rest of the collection, to Liverpool, that I 

 described this species in 1853, when I was collecting materials for my ' Synopsis of the 

 Bucconidse.' At the time of the publication of that work I had seen but the single example of 



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