NONNULA RUFICAPILLA. 



THE EED-CAPPED NUNLET. 

 PLATE XLVI. Fig. 1. 



Lyjpornix ruficapilla^ Tsch. Wiegm. Arch. 1844, pt. i. p. 300. 



Lypornix ruficapilla^ Tsch. Faun. Per. Aves, p. 258, t. 24. fig. 1 (1845). 



Monasa rufica^pilla, Gray et Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 74 (1846). 



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



Malacoptila ruficapilla, Scl. Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 480 (1854). 



Malacoptila ruficapilla, Scl. Syn. Bucc. p. 20 (1854). 



Scotockaris rujicapilla, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). 



Nonnula rujicapilla, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 196. 



Monasa ruficapilla, Pelz. Sitz. Akad. Wien, xx. p. 612 (1856). 



Nonnula rujicapilla, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 274 (1862). 



Nonnula rujica'pilla. Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein, iv. p. 130 (1863). 



Nonnula rujicapilla, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S, 1866, p. 192. 



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



Nonnula ruficapilla, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 295. 



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



Nonnula ruficapilla, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 548. 



SuprS, bmnnea; pileo castaneo; lateribus capitis et cervice posticS. cinereis; subtus medialiter ferrugineo- 

 rufa^ ventre dilutiore, crisso albo, lateribus in cinereum transeuntibus ; subalaribus et remigum mar- 

 ginibus internis cinnamomeis : long, tota 5*7, alse 2"4, caudse 2*2, rostri a rictu 1"0. Fern, mari 

 similis. 



Hab. in Peruvia orientali et in Brasilia interiore ad fines Bolivise. 



De. J. J. VON TscHUDi, one of the first explorers of the zoological riches of the Peruvian 

 Eepublic, was the discoverer of this Nunlet, of which he has given us an unmistakable, if not 

 very elegant, figure in his ' Fauna Peruana.' But little information, however, is presented to 

 us concerning it in the pages of that not very satisfactory work. We are merely told that, in 

 common with the allied species of the family, it was met with on the low bushes at the edges of 

 the forests in the eastern wood-region of Peru, and was rather rare. In other parts of the great 

 Amazonian wood-region N. ruficapilla has also been obtained by Hauxwell and Edward Bartlett 

 on the river Ucayali, and by Jelski at Amable Maria, in Central Peru. But it seems that the 

 present bird likewise occurs in another far-distant locality, where one would hardly have 

 expected to meet with it. ' < 



In his excellent volume upon the ornithological results of Natterer's travels in South 

 America, Herr von Pelzeln tells us that that distinguished explorer collected ten examples of 



