tail-coverts; a large spot on each of the feathers of the greater wing-coverts, on the 
exterior edge forming a conspicuous transversal band; quills dark brown, narrowly edged 
on the exterior web with olive-yellow; a large spot of pale yellowish white near the tips 
of the inner cubitals; the interior webs of the quills broadly edged with the same colour; 
tail brown, washed with olive ; entire throat and a moustachial stripe rich orange ; under 
surface pale shining yellow; flanks spotted with small, pear-shaped, black drops; thighs 
and under tail-coverts olive-yellow, mottled with black; irides red; orbital skin blackish: 
bill, legs, and feet bluish black. Wing 3"-l, tail 2". 
Female.— Head duller than the male; sides of the head and neck spotted finely with 
dirty white; upper plumage more variegated with yellow; the wing-coverts broadly mar- 
gined with dark orange-yellow; throat orange, covered with large, round, black drops; 
the whole of the under surface covered with similar spots, except on the centre of 
the abdomen. 
Jm— The young male has a band of black spots across the breast, and many more 
large spots on the sides of the breast ; the black of the sides of the head is interspersed 
with dirty white, and the coverts edged with orange yellow. 
Hah. Chamicuros, Tern {Hauxwell, Bartlett) ; U. V caysili (Bartlett) ; Rio Negro, north- 
west of Brazil (Nafterer) ; New Granada, Rio Napo (Sclater) ; Ecuador (Verreauw). 
Cainto auratus is the commonest of the American Barbets, and may be known from the 
only other two species which at all resemble it, namely C. mger and C. qmnfMor, by its 
o-olden throat, from which it takes its name. 
o 
It will be seen by the references at the head of this paper that we have added C. 
amazonicus to the synonyms of this species, being of opinion, after examining the specimens 
in the British Museum, that the birds labelled C. amazonicus are only, the one a specimen 
of C. niger, and the other a dark-throated specimen of the species on which we are now 
writing. 
Des Murs, in his carefully worked out paper on this subgroup in the 'Revue 
Zoologique' for 1849, gives a description of the typical bird (of which we have been 
unable, unfortunately, to see the skin) of C. amazonicus, which exactly corresponds with 
the specimens in the British Museum. 
Further research may prove that we are wrong ; but at present we hold to our opinion 
