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CAMPYLOPTERUS RUFUS Lesson. 



RUFOUS SABRE-WING. 



Adult male. — Above bright metallic bronze-green or greenish bronze, 

 becoming more bronzy on upper tail-coverts and middle rectrices, the 

 pileum slightly darker and duller, with feathers narrowly and indis- 

 tinctly margined with dusky; middle pair of rectrices wholly metallic 

 bronze or greenish bronze, the next pair similar but with a broad, 

 ill-defined, subterminal band of blackish and tipped with cinnamon; 

 next pair similar but with basal half or more of outer web (less on 

 inner web) deep vinaceous-cinnamon or cinnamon-rufous, the blackish 

 subterminal band more sharply defined and the cinnamon tip broader; 

 next pair with outer web cinnamon-rufous almost if not quite to the 

 black subterminal band and inner web with the same color propor- 

 tionally increased in extent, the cinnamomeous tip still broader; 

 outermost pair with outer web wholly cinnamon-rufous (paling 

 slightly terminalh^, the inner web the same color but interrupted by 

 a broad subterminal band of black preceded anteriorly by a narrow 

 one of greenish bronze ; remiges dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous ; 

 under parts plain vinaceous-cinnamon, slightly paler medially, the 

 downy femoral tufts white; maxilla dull black, mandible dusky 

 brownish (in dried skins); iris dark brown; feet light grayish brown 

 (in dried skins); length (skins), 127-138 (132); wing, 71-76 (73.5); 

 tail, 47.5-51.5 (49.2) ; culmen, 25-27.5 (26.3).« 



Adult female. — Similar in coloration to the adult male but black 

 subterminal area on inner web of lateral rectrix roundish instead of 

 quadrate, and shafts of outer primaries not conspicuously thickened ; 

 length (skins), 121-135 (128); wing, 68.5-74.5 (71.5); tail, 49.5-50 

 (49.7); culmen, 26-26.5 (26. 2).^ 



Highlands of Guatemala, 5,000-7,000 feet altitude (Guatemala 

 City; Dueiias; Atitlan; Volc^n de Fuego; plains near Pacicia and 

 Patzum). 



Campylopterus rufus Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1840, 73 (loc. ignot.). — Bonaparte, 

 Consp. Av., i, 1849, 71; Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 250.— Gould, Mon. 

 Troch., pt. iii, 1852 (vol. ii, 18G1), pi. 50; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 18()1, 54.— 

 ScLATER and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 127 (Duenas and Atitlan, Guatemala). — 

 Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 18G0, .38 (Duenas; habits). — Salvin, Ibis, 18G0, 

 195, 2G3, 264; (kt. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 294, GG4.— Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 18G2, 288 (Duenas, Guatemala). — Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. 

 Troch., 1866, 22; Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 2, 1874, 133.— Mulsant, 

 Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 202. — Elliot, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 

 1879, 25.— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 324 (Duenas, 

 Volcctn de Fuego, and plains near Pacicia and Patzum, Guatemala; Volcan 

 de San Migu(51, Salvador).— Ridg way, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 310 

 (Dueiias; Guatemala City).— Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. II., 1907, 

 96 (Lake Atitldn, Guatemala). 



« Five specimens. b Four epecimena. 



