296 



TKOCHILI. 



Eupetomena macroiira, Bp. Rev. Zool 1854, p. 254 ; Cah. ^ Eeine, 

 Mus. Hein. iii. p. 14 ; GovJd, Intr. Troch. p. 50 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. 

 p. 287 ; Muls. Si Verr. Class. Troch. p. 21 ; Scl. S,- Salv. P. Z. S. 

 1867, p. 583 ; Beink. Tidensk. Medd. Nat. For. Ejoh. 1870, p. 102 ; 

 Feh. Orn. Bras. p. 25 ; Muh. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. Ill, 

 pi. 11 ; id. Ann. Sac. Linn. Lyon, xxi. p. 201 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 134: id. St/n. H. Birds, p. 21 ; Budes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. 

 p. 141 ;' Salv.'Caf. StricAi. Coll. p. 360. 



Polytmus macrourus, Gray, Hand-l, B. i. p. 125. 



Adult male. Body shining dark green ; whole head and throat 

 deep shining prussian-bhie ; anal region and lateral tufts pure 

 white ; iinder tail-coverts dark steel-blue ; longest upper tail-coverts 

 dark blue with a tinge of bronze ; tail steel-blue ; bill and feet black. 

 Total length 7 inches, wing 2-9 ; tail, central rectrices 1"3, lateral 

 4-2 ; biU 1-05. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but the head and throat of a 

 paler blue. 



Toung in first plumage. The tail but slightly forked, the blue of 

 the head and throat faintly shown, the latter brownish. 



Hah. "Whole of Eastern and North-eastern Brazil and inland to 

 Matto Grosso : Lower Amazons Yalley ; Guiana. 



a. S ad. ; h. Ad. 

 sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d, e. Ad. sk. 

 f-k. Ad. ; I. Juv. ; 



m. 5 ad. sk. 

 n, 0. S ad. ; 2h 1- 

 2 ad. sk. 



dad. 



St. 



s. $ad. 



Mexiana I., Amazons, Jan. & 



Oct. (A. B. Wallace). 

 Ceara, Brazil {Jesse). 

 Peruambuco (W. A. Forbes). 

 Brazil (Bahia make). 



Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil, 

 May, Sept., Dec. {H. H. 

 Smith). 



2. Eupetomena Mrundo. 



Sal vin-G odm an Coll . 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sal vin-G odman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godmau & 



Gould Colls. 

 Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



Purchased. 



Eupetomena hirundo, Gould, Ann. S,- Mag. N. H. 1875, xvi. p. 370 ; 

 Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 16 ; Muh. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, 

 iv. p. 145, pi. 114; Elliot, Syn. Troch. t^. 22; Eudes-Desl. Ann. 

 Mus. Caen, i. p. 143. 



Similar to E. macrura and very closely allied. The head and 

 throat in both sexes is of a paler, more cobalt-blue, the rectrices 

 wider, and the tail less deeply forked. Length of the central rec- 

 trices I'o inch, lateral 3'4. 



Hah. Eastern Peru. 



a. (S ad.; I/. 5 



lid. sk. 

 c. J ad. ; d. 2 



ad. sk. 



Huiro, Peru, June [H. Whitely). 

 Huiro, Jime, July {H. W.). 



Gould Coll. (Types 



of the species.) 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



