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5. Aulacorhamphns whitelyanus. (Plate IX.) 



Pteroglossus siilcatus, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 721 (?). 

 Aulacorhampbus ■whitelyanus, Salv. et Godm. Ibis, 1 882, p. 83 ; Salv. 

 Ibis, 1886, p. 66 (Brit Guiana). 



Above green ; eye-region bluish ; tips of two middle rectrices 

 chestnut : beneath brighter green ; throat -whitish ; bill blackish ; 

 greater part of ciilmen, tip, and base of lower mandible red : whole 

 length 12 inches, wing -I'S, tail 4--1, bill from gape 2-5. 



Hah. Eoraima district of British Guiana. 



Similar to A. derhianus, but rather smaller and distinguished by 

 its red culmen, and the absence of the bluish nuchal patch. 



a. (S ad. ; b, Roraima, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. . 



c. 5 ad. sk. (TVhifely). 



d. (S ad.sk. Eoraima (XrMf/(/). Sclater Coll. 



e. cj ad. sk. Merume Mts. ( JMiltely). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Type of the species.) 



6. Aulacorhamphns prasinus. 



Pteroglossus prasinus, Licht. in Mn.s. Berol. ; Gould, P. Z. <S. 1834, 



p. 78; id. Mon. Ramph. ed. 1, pi. 29; Sturm, Mon. Mamph. 



pt. i. pi 6. 

 Aulacoramphus prasinus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 06 ; Gould, Mon. Ramph. 



ed. 2, pi. 47 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 308, et 1859, p. 368 (Mexico) ; 



id. Cat. A. B. p. 328 ; Sclat. et Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 135 ; iid. P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 837 (Honduras) ; iid. Nomenel. p. 109 ; Cassin. Pr. Ac. Sc. 



Phil. 1867, p. 120; Ridgw. P. U. S.N.M. ix. p. 163 (Mexico). 



Above green ; tail tinged with bluish, and aU the tail-feathers 

 broadly tipped with dark chestnut : beneath brighter ; flanks slightly 

 yellowish ; throat wliite ; crissum chestnut : upper mandible clear 

 yellow ; blotch at the base of the culmen and narrow line along the 

 commissure black or brownish black ; lower mandible black : whole 

 length 14 inches, wing 5-2, tail 5-2, bill from gape 3. Female 

 similar. 



Hah. Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. 



«. J ad. ; b. Cofre de Perote, Vera Cruz, Salvin-Godman CoU. 



jr. sk. Mexico. 



c-e. cJ ad. sk. Jalapa, Mexico. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



/, ff. S ji'- • Coatepec, Vera Cruz {Ferrari- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/;. 2 ji'- sk. Perez), 



i. 5jr.sk. Huatu.'^co, Vera Cruz (i^crran- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Perez), 

 k, I. d 2 ^^- ^k- Orizaba, Vera Cruz {Ferrari- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Perez), 

 m, n. S ad. ; Tonaguia, Oaxaca {Trnjillo'). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



o. 5 ad. sk. 

 p. 5 ad. sk. British Honduras {Blaiica- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



neati.v). 

 q, r. Ad. st. Mexico. I'm'chased. 



s. Ad. sk. Orizaba, Mexico. Gould CoU. 



t. Ad.sk, .Talapa, Mexico (^/f Oc«). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



