70. EUPETOMENA. 295 



9. Campylopterus hyperythrus. 



Campyloptorus hyperytlims, Cab. in Schomb. Reise n. Guiana, iii. 



p. 709 ; Bp. Mcv. Zool. 1854, p. 250 ; Gmild, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 51 



(;May 1852) ; id. Intr. Troch. p. 54 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois-Mouches, 



i. p. 135; id. A)in. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 202; Elliot, Syn. 



Ti-och. p. 25 ; Wldtely, Ibis, 1884, p. 357 ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 432. 

 Platystylopterus hyperytlims, Reich. Attfz. d. Col. p. 11 ; id. Troch, 



Enum. p. 8, pi. i'DO. 11'. 4836-38 ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. 



p. 159. 

 Loxopterus liyiierythrus. Cab. Sj- Heine, Mus, Hein. iii. p. 13 ; F, 



Heine, J.f. Orn. 1863, p. 177. 

 Campylopterus hypertrurus (!), Mnls. ^- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 22, 



Adult male. Similar to that of C. rufits, but the under surface 

 darker, the lateral rcctrices wholly rufous, without a subterminal 

 dark baud ; bill shorter. Total length about 4*7 inches, wing 2-6, 

 tail 1-8, bill 0-9. 



Adult female. Like the male. 



Hah. British Guiana, Roraima, at an altitude of 6000 feet and 

 upwards. 



a. (S ad.; b. 5 ad. sk. Roraima, Brit. Guiana, Aug. Salviu-Godman Coll. 

 {H. Whitely). 



70. EUPETOMENA. 



Type. 



Eupetomena, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 42 (Oct. 1852) . . E. macrura. 

 Prognornis, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 11 E. macriua. 



Range. Eastern South America from Guiana to S. Brazil ; Peru. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head and throat deep blue ; tail deeply forked ; rec- 



trices comparatively narrow maci-ura, p. 295. 



h. Head and throat paler blue ; tail less deeply forked ; 



rectrices broad . hirundo, p. 296. 



1. Eupetomena macrura. 



Mellisuga cayeunensis, cauda bifurca, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 76. 

 Cayenne fork-tailed Humming Bird, Lath. Syn, i. pt. 2, p. 751. 

 Trochilus macrourus, Gm. Si/st. N. i. p. 487 ; Vieill. iV. Diet. d'Hist. 



N. vii. p. 366 ; id. Enc. Meth. p. 566 ; Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 13 ; 



Wied, Beitr. iv. p. 93. 

 Trochilus f orcipatus. Lath. Ind, Orn. i. pt. 1, p. 304. 

 Oiseau-Mouche a queue fourchue de Cayenne, Vieill. Ois. Dor. i. 



p. 130. 

 Ornismya hirundinacea, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xii, 98, 



pi. 25 ; id. Suppl. p. 179, pi. 39. 

 Trochilus hirundiuaceus, Less. Ind. G6n. Troch, p. v. 

 Eupetomena hirundinacea, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. pi. 42 (Oct. 1853). 

 Prognornis macrura, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 11 ; id. Troch, Enum. 



p. 9, pi. 806. ir. 4873-75 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 330. 



