Identifier: monographofjacam00scla (find matches)
Title: A monograph of the jacamars and puff-birds, or families Galbulid and Bucconid
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913
Subjects: Bucconidae Jacamars
Publisher: London, Published for the author by R.H. Porter (etc.)
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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il by M. Wiener. Unless, therefore, there has been some errorin this case, it would seem that M. nigra reappears in the western coast-region of Ecuador.* See fasti Oruithologise, by John Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. PMl. 1864, p. 234. 147 The white marginations of the wing-coverts at once render this Nunbird distinguishablefrom the other members of the genus. The next following species, Monacha flavirostris, comesnearest to it, but may be at once recognizable by its smaller size and yellow bill. I conclude with a list of the examples of Monacha atra in my collection and in that ofMessrs. Salvin and Godman:— S^o. Sex. Mus. Patria. Long, tota, alae, caudse, rostr 1. — P. L. S. Brit. Guiana (Brown). 10-5 4-7 4-7 1-7 2. 6 P. L. S. Maroni, Brit. Guiana (Whitely). 10 5 50 4-10 1-7 3. — P. L. S. Cayenne. 11-5 5-2 5-2 1-7 4. — S.-G. Oyapok, Cayenne (Verdey). 11-4 5-0 4-6 1-7 5. S.-G. Amazons. 11-8 51 5-1 1-8 The figure (Plate XLVIII.) is taken from No. 1. Sclater Jac (fc Pufft PI XLIX
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J-GJleuleinan.s . Hanhart imp MONACHA FLAVIROSTRIS MONACHA FLAYIEOSTEIS. THE YELLOW-BILLED NUNBIED.PLATE XLIX. Monasajlavirostris, StrickL Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 47, t. 48. Monasa axillaris, Lafr. Eev. de Zool. 1850, p. 216. Monasa flavirostris, Sd. Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 481 (1854). Monasa flavirostris, ScL Syn. Bucc. p. 21 (1854). Monasa flavirostris, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, pp. 136, 196. Monasa axillaris, Cassin, Pr. Acad. Phil, 1860, p. 135. Monasa flavirostris, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 274 (1862). Monasa flavirostris. Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 127 (1863). Monasa flavirostris, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 752. Monasa flavirostris, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 295. Monasa flavirostris, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 106 (1873). Saturate nigra unicolor, alls caudaque seneo tinctis; campterio et subalaribus albis; remigum marginibusinternis dilute eineraceis; rostro flavo; pedibus nigris: long, tota 79, alse 4*2, caudse 40, rostri 11.Fern, mari similis. Hab. in Columbia interiore et

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