CAPITO AUROVIRENS. 
(THE GOLDEN-GKEEN BA1U5ET). 
Le Barhu oranvert 
Bucco aurovirens 
Micropogon aurovirens 
Capita aurovirens 
Eubucco aurovirens 
Capita aurovirens 
(1806) Le Vaillant, Barbus, text. 
(1829) Cuvier, Ecgne Animale, I, p. 458. 
(1806) Le Vaillaut, Barbus, Supplement E. 
(1837) Bonaparte, P. Z. S. p. 120. 
(1840) G. E. Gray, Genera o£ Birds, II, p. 430. 
(1850) Bonaparte, Conspectus Avium, I, p. 142. 
(1861) Sclater, Ibis, Vol. Ill, p. 187. 
(1863) Goffin, Museum Pays-bas, Buccones, p. 58. 
(1868) G. E. Gray, Catalogue o£ the British Museum, 
Capit. p. 21. 
S C. virescenti-fusous pileo, coccineo, pectore Ifste aureo. 
Fern, pileo concolore distinguenda. 
Hah. In regione Neotropica. 
Description. Male. Body, greenish brown, paler below, and at tips of quills ; entire 
top of the head rich red, the chin whitish, the throat and breast deep golden yellow. 
Bill black, leaden colour at the base of the lower mandible, irides red, legs and feet 
plumbeous. 
Female. Top of the head greyish white, in other respects similar to male. 
Hah. Ecuador and Rio Napo {Jameson), Valley of the Ucayali {Hauxivell), Permian 
Amazons ; Nauta {JBartlett). 
The plate is drawn from specimens in Mr. O. Salvin's collection, and represents the 
male and female. Of its habits nothing is on record at present, though it was named by 
Cuvier as early as 1829. 
The dimensions taken from dried skins are as follows wing, 3-3; tail, 2-6; bill at 
front, 8 ; tarsus, 1 inch. 
