MICEOMONACHA LANCEOLATA. 



THE LANCEOLATED MONKLET. 

 PLATE XLIV. 



Bucco lanceolata, Deville, Eev, et Mag. de Zool. 1849, p. 56. 



Bucco lanceolatus, Scl. Ann, N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 363 (1854). 



Bucco lanceolatus, Scl. Syn. Bucc. p. 13, pi. 3 (1854). 



Capito lanceolatus, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). 



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



Capito lanceolatus, Des Murs, An. nouveaux ou rares del Exp. de Castelnau, Ois. p. 30. 



Nystalus lanceolatus. Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 142 (1863). 



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



Micromonacha lanceolata, Scl. P. Z. S. 1881, June 21st. 



Suprk rufescenti-brunnea^ interscapiilii et uropygii plumis quibusdam fulvo subtilissime marginatis ; loris et 

 plumis frontalibus albis, vitta angustd nigra a pileo disjunctis; subtus alba, striis nigris ornata; crisso 

 rufescente ; cauda suprk rufescente, subtus magis cineracea, fascia submarginali e maculis subquadratis 

 nigris composita instructa ; subalaribus et remigum marginibus internis albis ; rostro nigro, pedibus 

 pallide virescenti-fuscis : long, tota 4*9, alse 2'5, caudse rectr, med. 1'8, ext. 1"5, rostri 1*0. 



Hab. in Amazonia superiore. 



This well-marked and peculiar PufF-bird was discovered on the Ucayali during the descent of 

 that river by M. de Castelnau and his companions in the course of their adventurous return- 

 journey across South America from Lima to Para, and was first described by M. Deville, who 

 accompanied the party as zoological collector, in 1849. M. Deville gives nothing but a bare 

 description of the species, together with the information that it was found near Sarayacu, in the 

 Pampa del Sacramento ; nor are any further details added by Des Murs in the ' Ornithology ' of 

 Castelnau's voyage. 



In my ' Synopsis of the Bucconidse,' published in 1854, 1 gave a figure of this species, taken 

 from the typical example in the French national collection. At that time the only other 

 example of it I had met with was a single specimen in Sir William Jardine's collection, received 

 along with other birds from the Eio Napo through Prof. Jameson of Quito. 



Up to a very recent period, so far as I know, nothing more was added to the history of the 

 present bird. But on overhauling the extensive collection formed in Western Ecuador by 

 Mr. Clarence Buckley in 1876 and the following years, Mr. Salvin and I had the pleasure of 

 finding, amongst many other rarities, four examples of this scarce species, obtained near 

 Sarayacu, an Indian village of about forty houses on the Bobonassa — a locality which must not 

 be confounded with the Peruvian Sarayacu on the Ucayali above mentioned. Mr. Buckley 



