NONNULA NUBECULA. 



THE EED-BEEASTED NUNLET. 

 PLATE XLV. Fig. 1. 



Bucco ruhecula, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 51, t. 39. fig. 1 (1824). 



Monaca ])haioleucos, Temm. PI. Col. 323. fig. 2 (1825). 



Lyjjornix nubecula, Wagl. Syst. Av. Lypornix, sp. 6 (1827). 



" Cuculus rufalhinus, Temm.," Cuv. Eegn. An. i. p. 455 (1829). 



Monasa rubecula, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 157 (1831). 



Monasa phaioleucos, Temm. Tabl. Meth. p. 55 (1836). 



Lypornix rubicula, Sw. B. Brazil, t. 35 (1841). 



Monasa rubecula^ Gray et Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 74 (1846). 



Monasa rubecula, Gray, List of Fiss. B. M. p. 50 (1848). 



Monasa rubecula, Bp. Consp. i. p. 147 (1850). 



Nonnula rubecula, Scl. P. Z. S. 1853, p. 124. 



Malacoptila rubecula, Scl. Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 479 (1854). 



Malacoptila rubecula, Scl. Syn. Bucc. p. 19 (1854). 



Scotocharis ruhecula, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). 



Wonnula rubecula, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 196. 



Monasa rubecula, Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 292 (1856). 



Monasa rubecula, Pelz. Sitz. Ak. Wien, xx. p. 512 (1856). 



Wonnula rubecula, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 273 (1862). 



Nonnula rubecula. Cab. et Heine, Mus, Hein. iv. p. 129 (1863). 



Monasa rubecula, Reinh. Fuglef. Bras. Camp. p. 121 (1870). 



Monasa rubecula, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 23 (1871). 



Nonnula rubecula, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 106 (1873). 



Supra brunneaj in pileo magis cineracea^ in. alis et cauda obscurior ; loris^ mento et oculorum ambitu albis ; 

 subtus pallide fulva^ in pectore clarior^ fere rufescens ; ventre medio albo ; subalaribus et remigum 

 marginibus internis pallide cinnamomeis : long, tota 5'5j alse 2"5; caudse rectr. med. 2'4>, lat. 1*9, rostri 

 a rictu 0'9. Fern, mari similis. 



Hab. in Brasilise orientalis regione sylvatica et in Amazonia inferiore. 



The genus Nonnula, which we now proceed to consider, embraces the smallest and most 

 delicate members of the family Bucconidee. Until 1853 the known species of this group 

 were usually united to Monasa or Malacoptila, to the latter of which they are undoubtedly 

 very closely allied. But in that year I proposed, in a communication made to the Zoological 

 Society of London, to constitute them a distinct genus under the name "■Nonnula" (a diminutive 

 of ^'Nonna," a "Nun"), a term which I now render into English as "Nunlet." 



Scl. Jac. & Pufi"b. No. XYllI.— November, 1881. t 



