32 CCEREBID^. 



1. Coereba cyanea. 



Certbia cayana, Linn. S. N. i. p. 187 ( $ ) ? 

 Certhia cyanea, Linn. S. N. i. p. 188 ( j ). 

 Grimpereau de Bresil, Daub. PI. Mil. S3. fi». 2. 



Certhia cyanogastra, Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. 295. 



Le Giut-guit, And. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. p. 69, tt. 41, 42, 43. 



Coereba cyanea, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. GIO ; id. Gal. Ois. i. p. 288, 

 pi. 176; Ma.v. Beitr. iii. p. 761; Bp. Consp. i. p. 399; id. Notes 

 Or«. p. 50; d'Orb. et Lafr. Syn. Av. ii. p. 24; Pelz. Orn. Bras. 

 p. 25 ; Laim: Ann. L. N. Y. ix. p. 97 ; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 

 1864, p. 266 ; Btirm. Syst. Ueh. iii. p. 150 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, 

 pp. 140, 286, 1857, p. 263 ; id. Cat. Am. B. p. 52 ; Tat/lor, Lhis, 

 1864, p. 81 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 179, 1867, pp. 570, 749, 

 1868, pp. 166, 627, 1870, p. 836, 1873, p. 260, 1879, p. 597 ; iid. 

 Nomencl. p. 16 ; Fimch, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 561 ; Salvin, Lhis, 1872, 

 p. 315, 1885, p. 207 (Brit. Guian.) ; id. Cat. StricU. Coll. p. 177 ; 

 Salv. et Godm. Ibis, 1879, p. 199, 1880, p. 119 ; iid. Biol. C.-A., 

 Aves, i. p. 248 ; Lai/ard, Ibis, 1873, p. 378 ; Forbes, I/ns, 1881, 

 p. 330 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 9 ; id. Orn. Permi, i. p. 436. 



Arbelorhina cyanea, Cah. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 675; id. Mus. 

 Hein. i. p. 96 ; Giindl. Orn. Cuba, p. 105. 



Coereba carneipes, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 376, 1864, p. 173 ; id. Cat. 

 A. B. p. 52 ; Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 32 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 349 ; Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. vi. pp. 291, 318, viii. p. 175 ; Salv. 

 P. Z. S. 1867, p. 137, 1870, p. 185 ; Sumichr. Mem. Boat. Sac. N. 

 H. i. p. 548. 



Arbelorhina brevipes et A. exiniia. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 96. 



Coereba cyanea, C. eximia et C. brevipes, Peich. Handb. pp. 236-7. 



Coereba cyanea eximia, Berl. J.f. 0. 1884, p. 287 (Bucaramanga). 



Above and below bright purple-blue ; lores, space round the eyes, 

 interscapulium, -wings, and tail velvety black ; cap pale blue ; under 

 wing-coverts and inner webs of wing-feathers sulphur-yeUow ; bill 

 black ; feet flesh-colour : whole length 4-4 inches, wing 2-5, tail 

 1-4. Female. Above dark green, superciliary stripe whitish ; wings 

 and tail blackish, edged with green ; below paler, yellowish green, 

 obsoletely striated ; under wing-coverts and inner webs of wing- 

 feathers yeUow ; biU i.orn-colour ; feet brown. 



Hah. From Southern Mexico over Central and Southern America 

 down to S.E. Brazil and Bolivia. Also found in Cuba. 



The varieties of this species differ principally in the length of the 

 biU and in other dimensions. But although I formerly separated 

 the form from the north of Panama as C. carneijies, I now agree 

 with Messrs. Salvin and Godmau {op. s. c), that neither this nor 

 the other forms can be satisfactorily arranged as species or even as 

 subspecies. 



a-b. c? ad. sk. Oaxaca, Mexico (Boucard). Sclater Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Cuba. Salviu-Godman CoU. 



d-e. $ ad.sk. Coziunel 1., Yucatan (©. Salviu-Godman Coll. 

 F. Gaumer). 



f. 5 ad. sk. Belize (Blancaneata). Salviu-Godman CoU. 



g. (S ad. sk. Corosal, Brit. Honduras Salvin-Godman CoU. 



(Jioe). 



