ORNITHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 
The Prince Maximilian of Neuwied does not distinguish this from 
the ordinary Galbula viridis , and Mr. Swainson calls it ruficauda, 
whereas the true ruficauda is that figured by Le Vaillant, which 
has, as he says, “ toutes les pennes de la queue d’un roux uniforme.” 
It becomes necessary, therefore, to give this species a new name, 
and I have called it maculicauda. 
The first and second pair of rectrices are red with blackish tips, 
the third pair are wholly red ; the fourth part are red only at the 
base ; the middle pair are wholly green. 
3. GALBULA RUFICAUDA, Cuvier. 
Galbula viridis var. (2 Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 245. Galbula ruficauda, Cw.Reg. An. 
i. 420 (1817)- Galbula macrura, Vieill. Gal. pi. 29 (1820)! Galbula leptura, 
Sw. An. in Men. p. 327 (1838). 
6 Supr& cum vitta pectorali aureo-viridis ; gutture albo ; ventre 
et 4 extimis utrinque rectricibus rufo-castaneis ; rostro nigro. 
- $ Mari similis, sed gula rufa, vitta pectorali angustiore. 
Habitat, Trinidad ; Guiana (Schomb.) 
Figured, Le Vaill. Ois. de Par. t. 50$; Vieill. Gal. des Ois. 
pi. 29 ; Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. pi. 26. 
This Jacamar may be immediately distinguished from others, by 
its having the four outer rectrices on each side wholly chestnut red. 
The length of the bill varies very much in different specimens, in 
some being only i . 5, in others as much as 2.2. I was at first 
inclined to refer these long and short billed varieties to two species ; 
but from having found in a collection of Trinidad skins a large 
number of these birds with the bills of different lengths varying 
as I have above stated I have now no doubt that they are specifi- 
cally identical. 
4. GALBULA TOMBACEA, Srix. 
Galbula tombacea, Spiv. Av. Bras, ii, p. 55. Galbula cyanescens, Deville, 
Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 56. 
G. aureo-viridis; capite gulffque cyanescentibus ; mento griseo; 
ventre toto et rectricibus 3 utrinque extimis castaneis extima rectrice 
apice et margine externa viridi ; rostro nigro. 
