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 | | 99), by English residents in Brazil to a group of birds now placed in the subfamily Bucconinae, which with the Galbulinae or jacamars form the family Gal bulidae of Coraciiform birds standing between the trogons (q.v.) and barbets, for a long time confounded, under the general name of barbets, with the Capitonidae of modern systematists. |
 | | Each group has formed the subject of an elaborate monographthe Capitonidae being treated by C. and G. Marshall (London, 1870-1871), and the Bucconidae by P. Sclater (London, 1879-1882). |
 | | The Bucconinae are zygodactylous birds confined to the neotropical region, in the middle parts of which, and especially in its sub-Andean subregion, they are, as regards species, abundant; while only two seem to reach Guatemala and but one Paraguay. |
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