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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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. Cooper at San Carlos, SanJose, Pacnare, and Payra in Costa Rica, will be found to belong to this form, and not toM. peruana as determined by Mr. Lawrence, who comments upon their larger size. It will be observed in the figure of this species that the little patch of feathers at the baseof the lower mandible on each side is coloured black, and not white. But this does not seem to 156 be an absolutely distinctive character as I at first supposed; for upon close examination I findthat it also occurs in some examples of M. morpheus and M. peruana. The four examples of Monaclia grandior in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godmanmeasure as follows:— No. Sex. Mus. Patria. Long, tota, alse, caudae, rostri 1. $ S.-G. Costa Rica (Carmiol). 11-7 5-8 5-3 1-6 2. — S.-G. Costa Rica (Carmiol). 11-3 5-3 5-1 1-6 3. — S.-G. Chontales, Nicaragua (Belt). 11-8 5-5 5-0 1-7 4. — S.-G. Chontales, Nicaragua. 11-0 5-5 5-8 16 The figure (Plate LII.) is taken from No. 1. SclaLer, JaxiAPuff.bPL LIII
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J- G-Keuieraa-n-s iiOa. MONACHA PALLESCENS HaJma-Tt Up MONACHA PALLESCENS. THE PALE NUNBIRD.PLATE LIII. Monasa paUescens, Cassin, Pr. Acad. Sc. Phil, 1860, p. 134.Monasa pallescens, Cassin, ibid. 1864, p. 287, t. iv.Monasapallescens, Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, pp. 130, 374.Monasai^allescens, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 106 (1873).Monasa pallescens, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 636. Cinerea^ capite et gutture toto in nigrum transeuntibus; remigibus et rectricibus nigris, extus aeneolavatis; fronte angusta alba; subalaribus et remigum marginibus internis cinereis ; rostro ruberrimo;pedibus nigris : long, tota lll, alse 53^ caudse 4*7^ rostri a rictu 19. Fem. mari similis, sed crassitiepaulb major. Hab. in Columbia boreali-occidentali. The black throat at once distinguishes this bird from M. morpheus and its two slightly modifiedallies, which we have just treated of, and renders it a well-marked species. But the singularpoint in its history is that, exactly contrary to the usual state of things

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