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3. EUMOMOTA. 



Type. 



Eumomota, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. i'o7 E. superciliaris. 



Spathophorus, Cab. ^- Heine, Miis. Hein. Th. ii. 



p. 112 (1860) E. superciliaris. 



Range. Central America from Honduras to Chiriqui. 



1. Eumomota superciliaris. 



Priouites superciliaris, Scmdbach, Rep. Brit. Assoc. 18.37, p. 99. 



Prionites (Ci'jpticus) superciliaris, Jard. ^ Selby, III. Orti. iv. pi. 18 

 (c. 1838). 



Crypticus superciliosus, Szvaiii.s. An. in Menag. p. 358 (1837). 



Crypticus apiaster. Less. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 17-4. 



Momotus vucatanensis, Cabot, Proc. Bnst. Soc. N. H. 1843, p. 156, 

 1844, p. 466 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 68 (1847). 



Crypticus superciliaris, Bj). Consp. i. p. l65 (1850). 



Momotus superciliaris, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 68 (1847) ; id. List Fissir. 

 Brit. Mus. p. 40 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 80, no. 944 (1869) ; 

 Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Momotus, p. 7(1863). 



Prionites yucataneusis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 165 (1850). 



Eumomota superciliaris, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 257 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 

 1859, p. 54 (Omoa) ; Scl. 8) Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 132 (Guatemala) ; 

 Salv. Ibis, ISiiO, p. 195; Ojoen, Ibis, 1861, p. 64 (nesting) ; Scl. 

 Cat. Amer. B. p. 263 (1862); id. i^ Salv. P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 837 

 (Honduras); iid. Nomencl. Av. Keotr. p. 103 (1873); Scl. Ibis, 

 1873, p. 373 (Chontaies) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 49 (Costa 

 Eica) ; Nurtit?;/, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 399 (1882), vi. p. 387 

 (1883) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1889, p. 371 (Meco Island : Yucatan). 



Spathophorus superciliaris. Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 112 

 (1860). 



Adult male. General colour above grass-green, with somewhat of 

 an oily-green shade on the head and neck : the mantle cinnamon, 

 with some of the feathers greenish at the ends ; wing-coverts grass- 

 green, the greater series bluish on the inner web ; bastard-wing 

 blue : primary-coverts black, forming a patch ; quills blue, black at 

 the ends, the black tip decreasing in size towards the innermost 

 secondaries, where it disappears ; the outermost primary blue only 

 on the inner web ; tail-feathers blue, with black shafts and tips, the 

 two centre ones produced into a long bare shaft, with a broad 

 racket of blue with the terminal half black ; crown grass-green, 

 with a broad superciliary band, commencing at the base of the 

 nostril, first silvery white and then shading off into silvery cobalt ; 

 lores black as well as the feathers below the eye, the latter spangled 

 with a few silvery-blue spots ; ear-coverts black, produced into an 

 elongated band of black ; above the ear-coverts and behind the eye 

 a small spot of chestnut ; sides of face, cheeks, sides of throat and 

 of neck, as well as the fore neck and breast, oily green, becoming 

 grass-green on the fore nock and breast : at the base of the cheeks 

 a few spots of silvery blue : centre of throat black, forming a broad 

 streak, which is bordered on each side by a band of elongated 

 silvery-blue feathers ; sides of body, abdomen, under tail-coverts, as 

 well as the under wing-coverts and axillaries, pale ferruginous ; 

 thighs green ; quills below blackish, ashy rufous along the inner 



