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HYLOMANES. 
Hylomanes, Lichtenstein, Abh. Ak. Wissensch. Berl. 1838, p. 449; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
Xvil. p. 332. 
Hylomanes was defined by Lichtenstein to contain the singular bird known as 
H. momotula, the smallest of the Momotide, and on that account suggestive of a closer 
relationship with the diminutive Todide of the Greater Antilles than shown by any of 
the larger members of the family. 
With a bill similar to that of Aspatha, the antrorse loral feathers are still shorter 
and their points less distinctly visible. The ear-coverts as usual are black, but there is 
no black pectoral spot. The tarsi are long, bearing the same proportion to the wing as 
those of Aspatha. The tail has ten feathers, the middle pair hardly exceeding the next 
pair in length. The tail is thus comparatively short. 
The genus has only one species, a bird of the hot lowland forests of South Mexico 
and Guatemala. 
1. Hylomanes momotula. 
Hylomanes momotula, Licht. Abh. Ak. Wissensch. Berl. 1838, p. 449, t. 4°; Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, 
pp. 201, 256°; 1859, p. 387°; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 54°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, 
p. 400°; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 2397; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 332°. 
Momotus momotula, Gray & Mitch. Gen. Birds, i. p. 68, t. 24°. 
Supra viridis, capite summo et nucha castaneis, illo fuscescentiore, stria superciliari czerulea, loris albicantibus, 
stria postoculari (tectricibus auricularibus inclusis) nigra, infra albido marginata: subtus olivaceus, gula 
media et abdomine medio albicantibus, abdomine antico ceruleo lavato ; alis et cauda fuscescenti-viridibus ; 
rostro corneo, mandibule basi et pedibus flavidis. Long. tota circa 6°5, ale 2°8, caude rectr. med. 2°6, 
rectr. lat. 1-1, rostri a rictu 1°2, tarsi 0-7. (Descr. maris ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Q mari similis. 
Hab. Mexico, Valle Real (Mus. Berol.*), Jalapa (Sallé?), Uvero (Sumichrast’), Playa 
Vicente (Boucard+, M. Trujillo); BritisH Honpuras, Cayo in the western district 
(Blancaneaux); GuateMaia, Choctum °, Cubilguitz, Khamkal, Volcan de Agua 
above San Diego, La Trinidad on the slope of the Volcan de Fuego, Savana 
Grande (0. S. & F. D. G.). 
Hylomanes momotula is a bird of the lowland forests of South-eastern Mexico and of 
Guatemala, occurring also in British Honduras. It has not been recorded from Western 
Mexico or Tehuantepec, but is found in the forests of Guatemala, on both sides of the 
main mountain chain, from the sea-level to a height of about 3000 feet. Its habits 
resemble those of the rest of the family, of which it is the smallest member, and the 
least conspicuous from the dense nature of the forests in which it lives. Of its nesting- 
habits nothing has as yet been recorded. 
