CAPITO AUROVIRENS. 
(THE GOLDEN-GREEN BARBET.) 
Capito mrovirens 
JSulucco aurovirens 
Capito aurovirens 
Le Barbu oranvert 
Bucco aurovirens 
Micropogon aurovirens 
(1806) Le Vaillant, Barbus, test. 
(1829) Cuvier, Regne Auimale, I, p. 458. 
(1806) Le Vaillant, Barbus, Supplement E. 
(1837) Bonaparte, P.Z.S., p. 120. 
(1810) G. R. Gray, Genera of 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. R. Gray, Catalogue of the British Museum, 
Capit., p. 21. 
J C. vireseenti-fusous pileo, coceineo, pectore ltete aureo. 
Eem. pileo concolore distinguenda. 
Hah. In regione Neo tropica. 
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 {Hauxwell), Peruvian 
Amazons; Nauta {Bartlett). 
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, 2.5 ; bill at 
front, 8 ; tarsus, 1 inch. 
