cervicali torque pallide fulvescenti-albis; capitis lateribus
pectore et yentris lateribus lineis nigris transversim radiatis :
loris gula et ventre medio cum crisso albis; pedibus nigris :
rostro plumbeo.
Long, tofa 8*0; alse 3 -4 ; caudse 3’0.
Hab. in Nova Grenada.
On first seeing tins Bucco I took it for an immature state of
B. chacuru, but a more accurate examination has convinced me
that it is quitfe „distinct. The present species may be at once distinguished
by its lead-coloured bill and radiated under-plumage,
as well as by the entire absence of the large black blotches on each
side of the neck, which form one of the characteristic features
oj? the latter species. Of two examples in the British Museum,
one is labelled as having been received from Santa Fe di Bogota
in 1843.
The upper plumage is clear ferruginous brown crossed with
regular black bars which are narrower on the head: on the neck
and upper back the feathers are nearly wholly Tdack, The
under surface of the remiges is buff-coloured; the inner web of
the apical half of the primaries is pure pale black. The rectrices.
are uniform clear brown, paler below and regularly crossed by
seven or eight black bands.
11. Bucco chacubu, Vieill.
Chacuru, Azara, no. 261.
Bucco chacuru, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d’H. NTiii. 239^-Vieill. Enc^d’H. N.
p. 1420; Gray’s Gen. p. 74; Gray, List of B. M. p. 48.
Capito melauotis, Tefflin; PlTGpl. 94; Wagl. Syst. Av. sp.-5; Max'; Beit.
z. Nat. iv. 3 5 9 Tschr Av. Consp; p.- 301; Tsch. F. P. p.li259; "
Bucco strigilatus, LiCht^Yerz. d. Doubl. p.s8. “
Capito chacuru, Hart. Syst. Incl. Azara, p. 17 r Bp: Consp. p. 146.
Capito leucotis, Sw. Om. Draw. pi. 10; Bp. Consp. p. 147.
Bucco leucotis, Gray^s Gen. pv 74-
B. supra brunneo-rufescens nigro conferte fasciolatus; capite
nigricantiore: capitis lateribus omnipo nigris: loriSj regione
auriculari, vitta collari; postica et corpore toto subtus albis :
subtus ad latera subobsolete nigro radiatus: rostro rubro,
- eulmine ad apicem nigro : pedibus nigris.
Long, tota 8*0; alse 3’3 ; caudse 3*0.
Hab. in Brasilia; Bahia (Max.) ; S. Paolo (Licht;); Peruvia reg.
• sylv. (Tsch.); Porto Imperiale (Cast; et Dev.); Paraguaya
I (Azara).
This Bucco appears to range farther south than any other
species, being the only ohe included by Azara in his account of
the birds of Paraguay. Prince Maximilian of Neuwied says
that he “ met with it in the bush and wood valleys of the
province of Bahia, yet not often. It is a still, .solitary bird, and