CAPITO AUROVIRENS.
( T H E GOLDEN-GREEN BARBET.)
La Barbu oranvert
Bucco aurovirens
Micropogon aurovirens
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Capito aurovirens
Eubueco aurovirens
Capito aurovirens
(1806) Lo Vaillant, Barbus, text.
(1829) Cuvier, Régne Animale, I, p. 458.
(1806) Lo 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. I l l , p. 187.
(1863) Goffin, Museum Pays-bas, Buccones, p. 58.
(1868) G. R. Gray, Catalogue of the British
Capit., p. 21.
5 C. virescenti-fusous pileo, cocciueo, pectore laite aureo.
Fem. pileo concolore distinguenda.
Hob. In regiono Neotropical
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.
Hab. Ecuador and RioNapo (Jameson), Valley of the Ucayali (Haiuvivell), Peruvian
Amazons; Nauta (Bartldt).
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.