326 JlOMOTlDiE. 



('". 1mm. si;. Cordilleia du Tile, raiiania (i?. Sulvin-Godiuan Coll. 



Ani'). 



;/', 5". Ad.sk. Y eiagua (E. Arci). Sclater Coll. 



?■". Ad.sk. Calovevora, I'aiuinia {E.An('). Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



Jntirnu'dkitc sj.cchncnti heiivecn M. Icssoin and M. cariilciccps. 



a, h. (5 2 Cuicl.apa, Cordova, Mexico, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. tk. (F. Feirari-Fercz). 



c. 5 iuini.; Atovac, Vein Cruz, May {Mrs. II. Sahin-Godman Coll. 

 d, e. A d. sk. li. Smith ) . 



f. Ad. sk. Vera Cruz ( W. B. Euhardscn). Salviii-Godnian Coll. 



y. Ad. sk. riaya Vicente, Veia Cruz, Dec. Sahin-Godman Coll. 



(M. TrujUlo). 



h. Ad. sk. riaya Vicente, Dec. {A. Boiicard). Sah in-Goduian Coll. 



8. Momotus swainsoni. 



Prioiiites baliamensis, Swains. An. in Mmag. p. 332 (c. 1837) ; Jard. 



^ Selby, III. Orn. iv. pi. 45 ; Bp. Vonsp. i. p. 105 (1850) ; Cab. ^ 



Hein. Mus. Ilein. Th. ii. p. 113 (1860) ; Schl. Mus. Fays-Bas, 



Momotus, p. 3 (1863). 

 Momotus babamensis. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 68 (1847) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1867, p. 2.52 (Tobago) ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 79, no. 932 (1869). 

 Momotus swainsoni (nom. emend.), Scl. Cat. Atner. B.-p. 265(1862) ; 



id. iS- Salt: Nomcvcl. Av. Neofr. p. 102 (1873). 

 I'riouites swainsoni, FinscJi, F. Z. S. 1870, p. 558 (Trinidad). 



Adult. General colour above grass-green, with a slight bluish 

 shade ; ■wing-coverts like the back ; bastarJ-wing black shaded 

 with blue ; primary-coverts blue ; quills blackish, exterually blue, 

 the secondaries green like the back ; tail-feathers green, inclining 

 to blue towards the ends, which arc blackish ; shafts of tail-feathers 

 black, the two centre feathers with blue rackets, slightly shaded 

 with green internally and black at the euds ; centre of crown black, 

 with a silvery-blue cincture on the forehead, extending in a broad 

 band above the eye, where it gradually merges into purplish blue 

 round the hinder crown, but between the purple and the black 

 coronal patch is a distinct shade of the same silvery blue as the 

 forehead ; some of the purple feathers of the nuchal cincture tipped 

 with black ; nasal plumes, lores, sides of face, and car-coverts 

 black, produced into a narrow pointed tuft, above the hinder upper 

 margin of which is a narrow silvery-blue line, and on the lower 

 margin is a line of jiurplish blue, spangled wilh a little silvery 

 cobalt ; sides of neck and sides of upper breast greenish like the 

 back ; cheeks and under surface of body cinnamon-rufous, with a 

 tuft of feathers on the fore neck black, maigincd with greeni.sh 

 cobalt ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and quill-lining pale cinna- 

 mon-rufous. Total lenpth 145 inches, culmen Hi, wing 5-1, 

 tail 5-6, centre tail-feathers 8, tarsus 1. 



Hah. Islands of Trinidad and Tobago. 



a. Ad. St. Trinidad. jNIajur Finch [P.]. 



b. Ad. .-k. Trinidad. Gould Coll. 

 r. Ad. sk. Tiiuidad. Pclater Coll. 



d, c. 6 5 ad. sk. Tobayo. iSclater Cull. 



