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and Orizaba. Boucard, who met with it at Teotalcingo, records that it breeds there 
in the month of March, and a nest and eggs obtained by him were sent to M. Sallé. 
Deppe’s specimens were probably secured near Misantla, where Godman found the 
bird not uncommon in the month of March. It occurs in the neighbourhood of this 
district during the greater part of the year, as we have records of it also in May, June, 
and October. 
ad”. Cauda rotundata. 
CAMPYLOPTERUS. 
Campylopterus, Swainson, Zool. Journ. iii. p. 358; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p- 288. 
Platystylopterus, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 11. 
Nine species are contained in this genus, which has a wide range in Tropical 
America from Bolivia and the Valley of the Amazons to Southern Mexico. Of these 
only two occur within our region, both of them being peculiar to it—one of them 
(C. hemileucurus) ranging from Southern Mexico to the State of Panama, keeping, 
however, to the forests of the more mountainous parts; the other (C. rufus) is only 
found in the Guatemalan highlands and the districts adjoining to the southwards. 
The peculiar swollen shafts to the outer three primaries of the wing of the male, 
together with the rounded tail, are characters which distinguish Campylopterus from 
all its allies. 
1. Campylopterus hemileucurus. 
Trochilus hemileucurus, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vig. p. 1 (ef. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 55)*. 
Campylopterus hemileucurus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 18°; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 162°; 
Scl. P. Z. 8S. 1864, p.176*; Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 204°; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 205°; Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. xvi. p. 291"; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 121°; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 32°; 
v. Frantz. J. f. Grn. 1869, p. 315; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 68"; Sumichrast, La Nat. 
v. p. 250"; Nutting, Pr. U. 8. Nat. Mus. v. p. 501"; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. 8S. Nat. Mus. 
ix. p. 157"; Berl. J. f. Orn. 1887, p. 816; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, 
p. 121”. 
Ornismya delatiri, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 147”. 
Campylopterus delatirii, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 45 (Sept. 1855 °°) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 287” ; 
1859, pp. 867°, 885"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 127”; Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 195 *, 260 **; 
de Oca, La Nat. ii. p. 20, t. —*. 
Lete saturate violaceo-cyaneus micans, capite summo obscure viridi-cyaneo, fere nigro, tectricibus alarum et 
supracaudalibus saturate viridibus ; cauda chalybeo-nigra, rectricibus mediis viridi lavatis, rectricibus tribus 
utrinque lateralibus late albo terminatis: rostro nigro. Long. tota circa 6:0, ale 3°3, caude 2-3, rostri a 
rictu 1:3. 
Q supra nitenti-viridis, capite summo nigricanti-cupreo tincto: subtus grisea, cervicis lateribus, hypochondriis 
et tectricibus subcaudalibus viridibus, gula micanti-violacea ; caude rectricibus mediis dorso fere concolo- 
ribus, tribus utrinque lateralibus albo late terminatis: rostro nigro. (Descr. maris et feminz ex Coban, 
Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico (Deppe'), Jalapa (Delattre™, de Oca 29>, F, Ferrari-Perez “4, Ms Tru- 
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