69. rAMPYLOPTEETJS. 291 



a-c. d" ad. ; f7, e. 2 Trinidad. LJoiild >i Sclatert'ullcs. 



ad. sk. 



/. c? ad. sk. Caripe, Venezuela, June {A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Goennff). 



I/. (S juv. sk. Venezuela. Salvin-C4odman Coll. 



4. Campylopterus hemileucurus. 



Trocliilus hemileucurus, Licht. Frets- Verz. Mex., Vog. p. 1 (cf, /. /. 



Orn. 1863, p. 56). 

 Oruismya delattrii, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 14. 

 Camjjylopterus delattrii, Bp. Consp. i. p. 71 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1854 



p. 250 ; Reich. Aufx. d. Col. p. 11 ; id. Troch. Enum. p. 9, pi. 804. 



ff. 4869-70 ; Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 45 (Sept. 1855) ; Scl. 8f Salv. 



Ibis, 1859, p. 127 ; 3Ioore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 53 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, 



pp. 367, 385 ; Salv. Ibis, 18G0, p. 105 ; Muls. S/- Verr. Class. Troch. 



p. 22 ; de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 20, pi. — ; Mids. Hist. Nat. Ois.- 



Mouches,\. p. 134, iv. p. 149 ; id, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 202; 



Rudes-Desl. Ann. Mas. Caen, i. p. 153. 

 Campylopterus liemileuciu'us. Cab. Sj- Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 13 ; 



Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 288 ; Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 52 ; Cab. J.f. Orn. 



1862, p. 162; Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 176; Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 204, 



1870, p. 205 ; Lawr. Ann. Lijc. N. Y. ix. p. 121 ; Bull. U.S. Nat. 



Mus. no. 4, p. 32; v. Frantz. J.f. Orn. 1869, p. 315; Boucard, 



P. Z. S. 1878, p. 68 ; Elliot, Si/n. Troch. p. 26 ; Nutting,^ Pr. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. V. p. 501 ; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 157; 



Berl. J.f. Orn. 1887, p. 316. 

 Poljiimus hemileucurus, Gray, Hand-l. B, i. p. 124. 



Adult male. Dark shiuiug violet-blue, top and sides of the head 

 and nape black ; ■wing-coverts and upper tail-coverts dark shining 

 green ; tail purple-black, the central rectrices tinged with green, 

 the outer three on either side broadly tipped with white (on the 

 outermost occupying half the feather) : bill black. Total length 

 about 6 inches, wing 3'3, tail 2-3, bill 1"3. 



Adidt female. Above shining green, crown bronze; beneath gre)^ 

 flanks dark shining green , thi'oat shining blue ; outer three rectrices 

 on either side blue-black, broadly tipped with white as in the male, 

 the rest shining green like the back. 



Young male. Green on the back, like the female ; the under 

 surface brownish black ; the blue feathers of the adult are first 

 assumed on the throat, afterwards on the abdomen, and lastly on 

 the back; only very fully adult birds have the back pure blue 

 without any admixture of green feathers. 



Hah. Southern Mexico and Central America from Guatemala to 

 Panama, in mountain-forests at an elevation of from 2000 to 6000 

 feet above the sea-level. 



a, b. S ad.; c. $ Mexico {Floresi). Gould CoU. 



ad. sk. 



<^. cJad.; e. 5 ad.sk. Jalapa, Mexico {de Oca). Salvin-Godmau Coll, 



f-i. S ad. sk. Jalapa, July (M. Trujillo). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



/. c? juv. sk. Huatusco, Mexico, July {F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Ferrari-Perez). 



