MONACHA MOEPHEUS. 



THE WHITE-FACED NUNBIRD. 

 PLATE L. 



Whiterfaced Barhet, Latham, Gen. Hist. iii. p. 233 (1822). 



Bucco morphoeus, Hahn u. Kiister, Vogel aus Asien, Lief. xiv. p. 1, t. 2 (1822). 



Monasa personata^ Vieill. Gal. d. Ois. i. p. 23, t. 36 (1823). 



Monasa personata, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1339 (1823). 



Bucco leucops, Licht. Verz. d. Doubl. p. 8 (1823). 



Bucco albifrons, Spix, Av. Bras. p. 53, t. 41 (1824). 



Lypornix leucops, Wagl. Syst. Av. Lypornix, sp. 3 (1827). 



Mo7iasa per sonata, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 157 (1831) 



Capito leucops, Wied, Beitr. iv. p. 368 (1832). 



Tamatia leucops, Sw. B. of Brazil, t. 12 (1841). 



Monasa leucops, Gray et Mitch. Gen. B, i. p. 74 (1846). 



Monasa leucops. Gray, List of Fiss. B. M. p. 49 (1848). 



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



Monasa personata, Scl. Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 481 (1864). 



Monasa per sonata, Scl. Syn. Bucc. p. 22 (1854). 



Monasa leucops, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). 



Monasa personata, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 196. 



Monasa leucops, Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 293 (1856). 



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



Monasa morphceus, Cass. Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1860, p. 135. 



Monasa morphceus, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 274 (1862). 



Monasa morphea. Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 127 (1863). 



Monasa leucops, Pelz. Orn. Brasil. p. 22 (1871). 



Monasa morpJieus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 106 (1873). 



Nigro-schistacea, in ventre paulo dilutior, in pileo, facie et gutture nigra ; remigibus et rectricibus uigri- 

 cantibus, his seneo pauliim tinctis ; f ronte et loris cum guld summa albis ; subalaribus et remigum 

 marginibus internis albicanti-cinereis ; rostro ruberrimo, pedibus fuscescenti-nigvis : long, tota 11-5, 

 alie 5'1, caudae rectr. med. 5'2, ext. 4'6j rostri a rictu 1"5. Fem. mavi similis. 



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



Soon after this species first became known in Europe, some sixty years ago, four different names 

 were assigned to it by four different naturalists. Of these, as was first pointed out by Cassin, the 

 earliest in date seems to be ^^ morpJieus," adopted from Wagler's MS., and published by Hahn 



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