9. CHioKopHAiras. 29 



Subfamily III. CCEREBIN^. 



Key to the Getiera. 



a. Bill strong, slightly incurved 9. Chlorophane8, p. 29. 



6. Bill thin, lengthened, much inciu-ved . . 10. Ccereba, p. 31. 

 c. BiU thin, short, slightly incurved 11. Cebthiola, p. 36. 



9. CHLOROPHANES. 



Chlorophanes, Reichenh. Handb. d. sj). Orn. p. 233 (1853). 



This form is somewhat intermediate between Dacnis and Ccereba, 

 but easily known from either by its strong, slightly incurved bill. 

 It consists of one widely distributed species, and a second, at pre- 

 sent onlj- known from a single skin. 



1. Chloropliaiies spiza. 



Certhia spiza, Lum. Syst. Nat. i. p. ISG. 



Grimpereau a tete noir de Bresil, Daub. PI. Enl. 578. fig. 2 (cJ). 



Grimpereau verd de Cayenne, Daub. PL EnL 682. tig. 1(5). 



CcEreha spiza, Ma.v. Beitr. iii. p. 771. 



Dacnis spiza. Cab. Miis. Hein. i. p. 95; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 152. 



Chlorophanes spiza, Cas-shi, P-. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1864, p. 267 ; Later. 



Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 174; Salmn, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 177; 



id. Lbis, 1885, p. 206 (Brit. Guiana); Salvin ^- Godman, Biol. C- 



A., Aves, i. p. 247 ; Berlepsch, Ibis, 1881, p. 242 ; id. J.f. 0. 1884, 



p. 286 (Bucaramanga) . 

 Ccereba atricapilla, Vieill. Koiiv. Diet. xiv. p. 50 (1817). 

 Dacnis atricapilla, Scl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 108 ; id. P. Z. S. 1854, 



p. 110; Finseh, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 560 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 26. 

 Chlorophanes atricapilla, ReicJieiib. Handb. p. 234: Scl P Z S 



1854, p. 252, 1857, p. 263, 1861, p. 129; id. Cat. A. B. p. 52; 



Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 349, 1866, p. 179, 1867, p. 749 et 



p. 977, 1868, p. 166, 1873, p. 260, 1879, p. 497 ; iid. Ibis, 1859, 



p. 14, 1860, p. 32 ; iid. Nomenel. p. 16; Taijlor, Ibis, 1864, p. 81 ; 



Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 324; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 9; id. Orn. 



Perou, i. p. 435. 

 Nectarinia miti-ata, Licht. Donbl. p. 15. 

 Chlorophanes guatemaleusis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 129 ; id. Cat. A. B. 



p. 52 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 349, 1870, p. 836 ; Salvin, Ibis, 



1866, p. 203, 1872, p. 315 ; id. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 137, 1870, p. 185. 

 Chlorophanes spiza, var. giiatemalensis, Laur. Ami. L. N. Y vs. 



p. 97 ; Frantzius, J.f. O. 1869, p. 297. 

 Chlorophanes spiza exsul, Berl. et Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 543. 



Bright shining green, with a bluish tinge, more especially below 

 in some specimens ; cap and sides of head black ; wings and tail 

 blackish edged with green; under wing-coverts blackish; beak 

 yellow, the upper portion of the upper mandible and feet black : 

 whole length 5-2 inches, wing 2-9, tail 1-5. Female. Uniform grass- 

 green, paler medially below ; upper mandible blackish, lower yel- 

 lowish ; feet brown. 



Hab. From Guatemala southwards throughout Central America, 

 and all over South America down to S.E. Brazil and Bolivia. 



