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9. Momotus caeruleiceps. 



Prionites ceruleiceps, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. L^ ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 165; Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 113 (I860). 

 Prionites casruleocephalus, Jard. ^- Selby, III. Orn. iv. pi. 42 



(c. 1839). 

 Momotus cferuleiceps, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 68 (1847) ; id. Cat. Fissir. 



Brit. Mus. p. 30 (1848); Scl. P.Z.S. 1857, p. ii53 (Vera Cruz), 



18-59, p. 367 (Jalapa); Schl. Mus. Pm/s-Bas, Moniotu3, p. 4 



(1863) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1864. p. 176 (City of 'Mexico) ; id. Cat. Amer. 



B. p. 263 (1862) ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 80, no. 936 (1869) ; Scl. 



Sf Salt). Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 102 (1873); Ridg20. Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. iii. p. 190 (1880) ; Ferrari- Perez, op. cit. ix. p. 160 



(1886). 

 Momotus subhuta. Less. Descr. Mamm. et Ois. p. 265 (1838). 



Adult male. General colour above warm olive greenish, rather 

 more green on the rnmp, upper tail-coverts, and wings, the outer 

 aspect of the quills greenish blue ; tail-feathers green, becoming 

 blue towards the ends, which are blackish at the tips ; crown of 

 head greenish blue, with a cincture of slightly brighter blue on the 

 crown, followed by a narrow line of black, not complete on the 

 nape ; base of forehead and lores black, separated from the blue of 

 the forehead by a band of yellowish olive anteriorly shaded with 

 blue ; sides of face and oar-coverts black, with a posterior narrow line 

 of silvery blue along the hinder margin of the latter, separating the 

 ear-coverts from the hind neck ; along the upper edge of the fore 

 part of the cheeks a line of greenish blue, separating them from the 

 ear-coverts ; cheeks and under surface of body green, with an oliva- 

 ceous shade over the fore neck and chest, as well as the sides of 

 the neck ; on the fore neck an elongated tuft of black feathers, 

 edged with green near the base ; under wing-coverts ochreous buff, 

 the edge of the wing green. Total length lo'o inches, culmen 1-55, 

 wing 5-6, tail 6, long tail-feathers S-5, tarsus 1*1. 



Hah. Eastern Mexico. 



a. Ad. sk. Mexico. Gould Coll. 



(y Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



c. d. (S 5 ad. sk. Villa Grande, Nuevo Leon, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Mexico, May 2.J {F. B. 



Armstrong), 

 e. iS ad.sk. Hacienda de la Cruz, N. Leon, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



June 4 {P\ B. A.) 

 f-i. <S ad.sk. Ri(j Camarcho,N. Leon, June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(F.B.A.). 

 k, I. d" ad. ; m. $ Sierra Madre, above Ciudad Salviu-Godmau Cull, 

 ad. sk. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Apr. 



( W. B. Richardson), 

 n. J ad. sk. Xicotencal, Tamaulipas, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( IV. B.R.). 

 o-q. (S ad.; r-t. J Tampico, Feb. ( W. B. R.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. 

 u. (S juv. sk. Tampico, June {W. B. R.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



