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
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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te a natural one. On the whole, as I have statedat a recent meeting of the Zoological Society, it seems necessary to give it an independentstatus as the type of a new genus to be placed between Malacoptila and Nonnula, differing fromthe former by its short tail, and from the latter by its shorter and stronger bill. In generalstyle of colour MicromonacJia lanceolata, as I propose to call it, is also conspicuously differentfrom all other members of the family. The following is a list of the specimens of this species in my own collection and that ofMessrs. Salvin and Godman :— ffo. Sex. Mus. Patria. Long, tota, alsB, caudae, rostri 1. — P. L. S. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). 4-9 2-5 1-8 1-0 2. — P. L. S. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). 4-7 2-5 1-7 10 3. — S.-G. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). 4-9 2-5 1-7 10 4. — S.-G. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). 4-8 2-5 1-7 1-0 These four examples are very nearly similar. The figure (Plate XLIV.) is taken from No. 1. Sclaler, Jsu:.& PufF.t PLXLV.
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J GKeuleiYia.nr. hih- I NONNULA RUBECULA2.N0NNULA CINERACEA Hanhaxt .imp ■ NONNULA NUBECULA. THE EED-BEEASTED NUNLET.PLATE XLV. Fig. 1. Bucco ruhecula, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 51, t. 39. fig. 1 (1824). Monaca ))haioleucos, Temm. PI. Col. 323. fig. 2 (1825). Lyjjornix nubecula, Wagl. Syst. Av. Lypornix, sp. 6 (1827). Cuculus rufalhinus, Temm., Cuv. Eegn. An. i. p. 455 (1829). Monasa rubecula, Less. Tr. dOrn. p. 157 (1831). Monasaphaioleucos, Temm. Tabl. Meth. p. 55 (1836). Lypornix rubicula, Sw. B. Brazil, t. 35 (1841). Monasa rubecula^ Gray et Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 74 (1846). Monasa rubecula, Gray, List of Fiss. B. M. p. 50 (1848). Monasa rubecula, Bp. Consp. i. p. 147 (1850). Nonnula rubecula, Scl. P. Z. S. 1853, p. 124. Malacoptila rubecula, Scl. Ann. N. H. ser. 2, xiii. p. 479 (1854). Malacoptila rubecula, Scl. Syn. Bucc. p. 19 (1854). Scotocharis ruhecula, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 13 (1854). Wonnula rubecula, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 196. Monasa rubecula, Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 292 (

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