CAMPYLOPTERUS.—PHAZOCHROA. 325 
Supra nitenti-aureo-viridis, capite summo obscuriore: subtus cinnamomeus, abdomine medio pallidiore, tectri- 
cibus auricularibus brunnescentioribus ; caude rectricibus mediis dorso fere concoloribus, reliquis ad basin 
cinnamomeis, subtus fascia subterminali nigra in rectrice extima usque ad rhachidem tantum extendente, 
pogonio externo igitur omnino cinnamomeo: rostro nigricante, pedibus carneis. Long. tota circa 5:3, 
ale 2°8, caude 2:0, rostri a rictu 1:2. 
© mari omnino similis, remigum trium externorum rhachidibus haud tumidis. (Descr. maris et feminse ex 
Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Guatemata (Constancia*, Skinner *), Duefias?*, Volcan de Fuego *, Plains near 
Pacicia and Patzum (0. 8. & F. D. G.); Satvapor, Volcan de San Miguel (W. B. 
Richardson ®). 
Lesson described this species in 1840 from a specimen without locality. The species 
was subsequently traced to Guatemala, where Constancia met with it and sent ex- 
amples to Strickland, and where Skinner also found it and supplied Gould with a series 
of skins. In Guatemala C. rufus is decidedly a local bird, and the only district in 
which we met with it is situated between 5000 and 6000 feet above sea-level, and 
extends from the neighbourhood of the Lake of Atitlan to Duefas and the great 
volcanoes in the vicinity. It probably ranges further southwards along the highlands, 
as we have a specimen from the Volcan de San Miguel in Salvador which was shot 
by Mr. Richardson in March 1891. 
At some seasons C. rufus is very common near Duefias. A nest found in August 
was in a cypress tree in a coffee-plantation, and was attached to a branch about five 
feet from the ground. It had two eggs when found, but the nest and eggs were 
destroyed the following day. The old bird sat very close, allowing one to approach 
within a foot of the nest. On the slopes of the Volcan de Fuego, near the edge of the 
Llano of Duefias, this bird was also very common, especially near the road which leads 
to the hacienda of Calderas. On the higher ground near Pacicia C. rufus was observed 
feeding from the flowers of the large species of Yucca which grow on the open plain ; 
the flowers of the banana (Musa) are also eagerly sought by this bird. The habits of 
this species in thus frequenting more open country and second-growth woods are in 
strong contrast with those of C. hemileucwrus, which is a denizen of the denser forest, 
a". Rostrum subrectum ; tequle nasales magis exposite ; remigum rhachides 
plerumque normales. 
PHAOCHROA. 
Pheochroa, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 54; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 299. 
Pheochroa was separated by Gould from the South-American Aphantochroa and 
from Campylopterus, from both of which it has slight points of difference. It most 
resembles the former in the sombre colour of both its species; but the lateral rectrices 
are tipped with white and the outer primaries are slightly thickened. ‘The latter 
