474 Mr. P. L. Sclater on the Fissirostral family Bucconidse. we have dropped our names and adopted his. As to the scientific unfairnesses in our other works which Prof. M^Coy promises to point out, I should be very glad by his making known what he considers as unfairnesses ; for if I have wronged either that author or any other, it must have been unconsciously, and I am always desirous of repairing the errors that I may have committed. I trust, however, that Prof. M'Coy^s efforts in that direction will not prove more successful than the arguments by which he and Prof. Sedgwick have endeavoured to invalidate the state-ment made by M. Haime and myself in our work on the Bri-tish Corals, and that I shall not be obliged to waste more time on the subject. I have the honour to be. Gentlemen, oi-f in 1^^ Your most obedient servant, _j5,j;f. r Milne-Edwards. Paris, April 28th, 1854. XLV. — A Synopsis of the Fissirostral family Bucconidse. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.Z.S. ::).• ( > aih-d [Concluded from p. 365.] ^ Olliim:/ f>p,> ,. Genus II. Malacoptila. ' ^yA iffs^sjq A. Malacoptila, G. B. Gray. -^^^^l^ 1. Malacoptila fusca (Gm.). White-hreasted Barhet, Lath. Syn. ii. 505. ^ Buccofuscus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 408; Lath. Iml. Orn. i. p. 206. '^»'«^.J ^^'^"^ hypornix torquata, juv., Wagl. S. A. sp. 4. vvs v ,> ,.a\ Monasa unitorques, Du Bus, Bull. Ac. Brux. xiv. pt. 2. p. 107; Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 249. Monasa fusca, Strickl. Cont. to Orn. 1852, p. 43. he Tamatia brun, Le Vail. Ois. de Par. v, 2. pi. 43. Buccofuscus, Vieill. N. D. d'H. N. iii. 239; Vieill. Enc. Meth. 1419. Tamatia fusca. Less. Tr. d'Orn, p. 168. Monasa fusca, Gray's Gen. i. p. 74 (pars); Bp. Consp. Av. p. 147 (pars). Malacoptila fusca. Gray, List of Gen. (1841) p. 13. M. brunnea clarefulvo striata: macula utrinque frontali et magna triangulari superpectorali albis : ventre obscure fulvescente : pedibus albidis : rostro nigro basi aurantio. Long, tota 6*5 ; alse 3*6 ; caudse 2*7. Hab. in Cayenna (Le Vail.) ; Rio Nigro (A. W.). This species has been much confounded with M. torquata. M. de Lafresnaye in the ' Bevue Zoologique,^ and Mr. Strickland in the ' Contributions to Ornithology,^ have clearly pointed out the differences between them, which will be sufficiently obvious
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