[257] μέλας, black; ἕρπω, I creep; formicivorus, ant-eating.

[258] Linnæus. A proper name.

[259] From ῥάμφος, a bill.

[260] “Monograph of the Rhamphastidæ, or Family of Toucans,” by John Gould, F.R.S. Introduction.

[261] From Capito, the principal genus: a proper name.

[262] “A Monograph of the Capitonidæ, or Scansorial Barbets,” by C. H. T. Marshall and G. F. L. Marshall (1871).

[263] Galbula, a proper name.

[264] Sclater, “Synopsis of the Fissirostral Family Bucconidæ,” 8vo, 1854.

[265] Alcedo, a Kingfisher.

[266] Sharpe’s “Monograph of the Alcedinidæ, or Kingfishers.”