Genera of Humming Birds. 349 



FAMILY XVII, CAMPYLOPTERIDAE. 



OR Family of Sabre Wing Humming Birds. 



Size large. Bill stouL, nearly straight or curved. Sheath 

 of both maxilla and mandible smooth. Nasal covers partly 

 exposed. Wings short, shafts of the outer primaries swollen. 

 Tail cuneate or rounded, excepting in the Genus Eupetomena 

 in which it is very developed and forked. Sexes sometimes 

 alike, and at other times dissimilar. 



Type: Campylopterus, Swainson, Zool. Journ., 1S26, p. 358. 



Range. — Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, 

 Peru, West Indies, Guiana and Brazilia. 



Genus CXXXIX. Sphenoproctus, Cab. and Heine, 

 Mus. Hein., i860, t. iii., p. 11. 



Pampa, Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853, p. 11. 

 Type : O. pampa, Lesson. 



Bill nearly straight, longer than the head. Nostrils covered 

 by a membrane. Wings long, shafts of three primaries in the 

 male broad and flattened, the first primary falcate. Tail 

 cuneate. Outermost rectrices smaller, all the others gradually 

 longer. Sexes alike. 



Habitat. — Mexico and Guatemala. 



472. Sphenoproctus pampa, Less., Ois. Mou. Suppl., 1829, 



p. 127. 



Polytmus pampa, Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i., p. 107. 



Pampa campyloptera, Reich., Aufz. der Col., 1853. P- ^^• 



Campylopterus pampa, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., p. 43. 



Wedge-tailed Sabre-wing, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii., 

 P- 43- 



Le Campyloptere pampa, Muls., Hist Nat. Ois. Mou., 1874, 

 vol. i., p. 115. 



Habitat. — Guatemala. 



Male. — Top of head and occiput metallic blue with purplish 

 reflections. Upperside shining green, bluish on uppertail- 

 coverts. Median rectrices bronze-green, brownish at tips, 

 next one of the same colour with broad brownish-black tip. 



