6. ASPATHA. 331 



feathers over the ej-e, side of face, and ear-coverts black, with a 

 slight tinge of greenish blue behind the eye and below the ear- 

 coverts ; cheeks, throat, and upper breast olive, with a tuft of elon- 

 gated black feathers, edged m ith green ; lower breast cinnamon- 

 rufous, forming a broad band ; abdomen green, bluish in the 

 centre and on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts light 

 green : " bill black ; feet pale greyish brown ; iris dark reddish 

 brown" (Xeinvied). Total length 17-4 inches, culmen 1-8, wing 

 5-75, tail 9 2, tarsus 1-2, 

 Hab. Erazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Para. Gould Coll. 



rf. J ad. sk. Lagos dosPatos, Rio Grande Salvin-Godman Coll. 



do Sul, Brazil {H. Rogers), 



e. Ad. sk. Bahia (Dr. Luscknath). Salvin-Godman Cull, 



/. Ad. sk. South Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



6. ASPATHA, g. n. 

 lianrje. Confined to Guatemala. 



1. Aspatha gularis. 



Prioiiites gularis, Lafr. Rev. Zuol. 1840, p. 130. 



Momotus gularis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 68 (1847) ; Schl. Mus. Pays- 



Bas, Momotus, p. 7 (1863) ; Gray, Sand-l. B. i. p. 81, no 848 



(1869). 

 Hylomanes gularis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 256 ; id. 4- Salv. Ibis, 1859, 



p. 131 ; iicL Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 102 (1873). 



Adult male. General colour above grass-green, a little more oliva- 

 ceous on the head and neck ; wings like the back, the quills dusky, 

 externally grass-green, the primaries a little bluish ; tail-feathers 

 green, inclining to blue at the ends, with blackish shafts : lores, 

 feathers around and below the eye orange-buff; ear-coverts marked 

 by a broad baud of black ; cheeks and sides of neck light green, the 

 fore part of the cheeks with an orange tinge ; throat light cobalt- 

 blue, with a longitudinal tuft of black feathers on the fore neck ; 

 breast olivaceous yellow, shading oft' into green on the sides of the 

 body, and into light blue on the abdomen ; thighs greenish ; under 

 tail-coverts ochreous buff, as also the under wing-coverts and quill- 

 liuing. Total length 10-8 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 4, tail 5-4, 

 tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 10-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-2, wing 3-9, tail 5-3, tarsus 0-9. 



Hab. Guatemala. 



ad. cJ ad. sk. Santa Maria, near Quezaltenango, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Guatemala, Aug. (IF. B. 



Richardson), 

 e. cJad.sk. Barranco-Hondo, Guatemala, Sclater Coll 



Oct. 29 (0. 8.). 

 /. Ad sk. Bueilas (O. -S.). Sclater Coll. 



y-k. Ad. sk. ^ olcan de Fuego, Xov. (O. S). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Guatemala. Gould Coll. 



