[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.”