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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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es and M. morplieus, we at once notice that theextent of white on the throat, though slightly variable in amount, is always much smaller inthe present bird, only occupying just the summit of the chin under the rami of the lowermandible. The white front is also rather narrower, and the size, as will be seen by the admea-surements, rather smaller. The Peruvian White-faced Nunbird is represented by the following series in my collectionand that of Messrs. Salvin and Godman:— ISo. Sex. i. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — 7. — S.-G. Sarayacu, Ecuador (5mc^%). 9-0 4-8 4-5 1-4 The figure (Plate LI.) is taken from No. 3. Mus. Patria. Long tota, alse, caudae, rostri P.L. S. Upper Amazons. 10-8 4-9 4-4 1-5 S.-G. Ega, Upper Amazons. 9-8 4-6 4-4 1-2 P. L. S. ChamicuroSj Peru (Bartlett). 10-2 4-8 4-5 1-5 P. L. S. Chamicuros^ Peru (Bartlett). 10-3 4-8 4-5 1-5 P.L. S. Sarayacuj Ecuador (Buckley). 8-8 4-7 4-3 1-3 S.-G. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). 9-0 4-9 4-5 1-5 Sclater; Jac.&PuFFKPIIIL
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JGKdnleinariS UtK MO NAG HA GRANDIOR MOIN^ACHA GRANDIOR. TEE LARGER WHITE-FACED NUNBIRD.PLATE LII. Monasa grandior, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 327.Monasa peruana, Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. ix. p. 118 (1870).Monasa grandior, Salvin, Ibis, 1872, p. 322.Monasa grandior, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 106 (1873). Nigro-schiistacea, in ventre vix dilutior; capite toto atro; remigibus et rectricibus nigris; fronte angusta etgula sTimmS, albis; subalaribus et remigum marginibus internis cineieis; rostro ruberrimo; pedibusfascescenti-nigris: long, tota 117, alse 58, caudse 50, rostri a rictu 1-6. Fem. mari similis. Hab. in America centralis Costarica, Nicaragua et Mosquitia. Obs. Affinissima M. morpheo, et, nisi ob crassitiem majorem et capitis colorem magis nigrum, vix separanda. I BECAME aware of the existence of a species of White-faced Nunbird in Central America someyears ago from some drawings of the birds of the territory of the Mosquito Indians made by aMr. Bell. In 1868 the first specimen a

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