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BUCCO STRIOLATUS
P l a t e LXXVII.
BUCCO STBIOLATUS.
(STRffED PUEF-BIED).
Capilo striolalus
Bucco striolalus
Mijstalus strio la iu s .
N a t t . ia Mus. Vindob.
Pelzeln, Sitz. Acad. W ien . sx . pp. 500, 509 (1836) e t Orn. Bra s. p. i
Cab. & H ein , Mus. H e in . iv. p . 140.
S u p ra fusco-nigrieans, p lumis omnibus ru fe sc e n te ma rg in atis e t fasciatis ; n u c b â la ta , c ap itis la te rib u s e t to rq u e
pe cto rali s a tu ra te ocbraceis nigro p u n c ta tis e t s trio la tis ; loris e t gulâ a lbicantibus ; ab domine sericeo-albo, la te ra lite r
fulvescento tin c to , v e n tre summo e t hypochondriis n ig ro d istinctô strio la tis : su b a larib u s e t remigum pogoniis
in te rio rib u s ad b a sin c innamomeis; c audâ to tâ b ru n n e sc en ti-n ig ra ,re e tric ib u s omnibus e t in pogonio u tro q u eo c b rac eo -
ru fo f re q u cu te r tran s fa sc ia tis : ro s tro n ig ric an te , tomiis e t mandibulæ b asi flav ica u tib u s: p edibus fu sc is : long,
to tâ 7 ‘5, alæ 3 '3 , caudæ 3 1 , r o s tr i a ric tu 1 ’6, ta rs i 0'75.
Ila b . iu prov. “ Matogrosso” Brasil, in t. {Na tterer).
Tliis Puff-bird is one o f tbe many oniitbological discoveries made by that prince of
collectors, the late Johann Natterer, in the interior o f Brazil. During his travels in tlie
province o f Mato-grosso, in the year 1826, Natterer passed the four months from July to
October at the sugar-plantation o f the then deceased Captain Gama. Tliis was situated about
fifteen leagues from Villabella de Mato-grosso, in the forest district, either on the river G ua-
pore or not far from its hanks. Here, and at a neighbouring station called “ Dourado,”
ciglit specimens o f tbe present Bucco were obtained, but lay unnoticed in the stores o f the
Vienna Museum, until they were described hy Herr v. Pelzeln, in 1856. Wc arc not aware
that the species has ever been met witb by other collectors.
Bucco striolatus is closely allied to B. radiatus o f New Granada, B. striatipectus o f Bolivia,
and B. maculatus o f the coast-region o f Brazil, but is readily distinguishable from all these
species on comparison. Its bill is comparatively short and widened at the base, as in B . radiatus ;
■which, however, may be immediately distmguished by the absence o f the ochraccous pectoral
band, and by its black nape. Both B. maculatus and its Bolivian representative B . striatipectus
have longer, more attenuated hills, and have the neck below- o f a pure rufous, without any
longitudinal markings.
Nattcrcr’s MS. notes, as published by Von Pelzeln, inform us that in this species the bill
in the living bird is olive-greeiij with the end and the basal h alf o f flic cuhncn blackish brown ;
the iris he describes as dirty yellowish w-liite, tlie feet as olive-gi-een, the tarsi as rather brownish
above, the claws blackish. No details are given o f its habits, but like other species o f the
group, it probably frequents the higher trees o f the dense forest.
Our figure o f this bird is taken from a Nattererian specimen now in Selater’s collection,
obtained in exchange from tbe Vienna Museum. It is a female, and was sliot at Dourado ou
tlie 6tli July, 1826.
J ANUAllY, 1SG9.
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