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oil-green above, with a blue tinge on the blackish primaries and 
the end of the tail, the two median rectrices being much elon- 
gated and having terminal blue racquets; the under parts and 
head are cinnamon, the cheeks black, while a tuft of long black 
feathers adorns the neck below. Humomota superciliaris of 
Central America is green 
above, with cinnamon mantle 
and blue remiges and rectrices 
tipped with black, the two 
median tail-feathers having 
elongated bare shafts with 
broad racquet-tips, half blue 
and half black. On the sides of 
the head are black bands and 
light blue eyebrows, while the 
throat is black with long 
blue lateral feathers, and the 
abdomen chestnut. JZomotus 
brasiliensis, extending from 
Guiana to Northern Brazil, is 
somewhat similar in colour, 
but has ttle red on the back ; 
the head is cobalt-blue with 
black on the crown and sides ; 
the under parts are green 
with a rufous tinge. The 
long throat-feathers are black 
with heht blue edges. Aspa- 
tha gularis of Guatemala is 
bright green above, and has 
a yellowish breast; the ab- 
domen and throat are pale 
blue, with a black tuft at the Fic. 78.—Motmot. Momotus brasiliensis. x }. 
base of the latter; the sides of the head are reddish-fawn with 
black ear-coverts.. The tail is normal. 
Sub-fam. 2. Vodinae—This includes four diminutive species 
of the genus 7Zodus, structurally resembling the Motmots; the 
tail, however, being short and square, the wings abbreviated with 
only ten secondaries, the beak flattened and but faintly serrated, 
and the rictal bristles well-developed. The long metatarsus is 
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