330 MOMOTID^. 



tinge ; thighs green ; under tail-coverts buff ; under wing-coverts 

 and quill-lining pale tawny buff. Total length 14-7 inches, culmen 

 1-65, wing 5"1, tail 5"5, centre taU-feathers 7'5, tarsus 1"15. 

 Ilah. Guatemala. 



a. Ad. sk. Guatemala. Gould Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Guatemala. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Rio Motagua, Guatemala Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(0. S.). 



5. BARYPHTHENGUS. r. 



Type. 



Barvphonus, pt., Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. 



p! 314 (1818). 

 Barvphthengus, Cab. 8,- Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. 



p" 114 (1860) B. ruficapillus. 



Hanr^e. Confined to Brazil, 



1. Baryphthengus ruficapillus *. 



Tutu, Azara, Apuut. i. p. 243 (1802) ; Hartl. Lid. Azara, p. 4 (1847). 

 Baryphonus ruficapillus, Vieill. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 319, pi. 190 (1825). 

 Le Motiuot Oranroux, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Fronier. iii. Suppl. p. 41, 



pi. B (1806). 

 Priouites ruficapillus, Licht. Verz. Duubl. p. 21 (1823) ; Nemcied, 



Beitr. Naturij. Bras. iii. p. 1257(1831); Bjy. Consp. i. p. 165 



(1850); Tschudi, Faim. Peruan. p. 251 (185.5). 

 Prionites tutu, Banz. Elem. Zool. iii. p. 157 (1822). 

 Prionites rubricapillus, Stepk. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 84 (1826). 

 Momotus levaillauti. Less. Descr. Mamm. et Ois. p. 205 (1838). 

 Priouites levaillanti, Bp. Con.ip. i. p. 165 (1850). 

 Momotus CTauoga^ter, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 255 (Paraguay) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 80, no. 941 (1869). 

 Barvphthengus ruficapillus, Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 114 



(i860) ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 262 (1862) ; Scl. S,- Salv. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 102 (1873). 

 Momotus ruficapillus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 68 (1844) ; ScJd. Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Momotus, p. 5 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 80, no. 943 



(1S69). 

 ? Momotus melanchoHcus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 80, no. 942 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above grass-green, inclining to olive on 

 the mantle and back ; wings green, the primary-coverts and 

 primaries externally blue ; tail-feathers green, inclining to blue at 

 their ends ; crown of head and nape bright ciimamon-rufous, a 

 slight shade of which colour spreads on to the hind neck ; lores, 



* The followiug species has been referred by many authors to B. ruficapillus, 

 but it seeuis to me impossible to identify it with certainty: — 



Le Motmot dombe, Levaill. Ois. Farad, et Lolliers, i. p. 113, pi. 39 (1806) ; 



Sd. F. Z. S. 1857, p. 258. 

 Baryphonus ruficapillus, I'ieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat xxi. p. 315 (1818). 

 Prionites dombeyanus, Bam. Elem. Zool. iii. pt. 3, p. 158. 

 Momotus dombeyi, Less. Man. d' Orn. ii. p. 103 (1828). 

 Prionites dombeyi, Sivains. Classif. B. ii. p. 338 (1837). 



