Compendium der neu beschriebenen Gattungen und Arten. 407 - 
The whole of the front, of the head slate-blue; crown, oceiput,, 
nape, hind neck, shoulders, interscapular region and scapulars dark 
chocolate, rump of a darker chocolate, crossed by an anterior and 
posterior band of light cinnamon; upper tail-coverts and tail above 
rich dark einnamon-red, the outer feathers of the tail centred with 
light slate-blue or bluish ash, a subterminal band of blackish, the 
next two feathers of a rich einnamon red approaching to rufous 
and having a similar subterminal black band or spot, on the under 
surface the black band is extended down the margin of the inner 
web of the under tail-coverts, the outer ones are like the upper 
tail coverts, the larger central ones show a mixture of blackish 
brown and chocolate; the whole of the under surface of the body 
is of a rich cinnamon. The under wing-coverts and inner webs 
of the primaries and some of the adjacent secondaries rich deep 
cinnamon rufous, quills above dark brown tinged with cinnamon, 
the outer webs of the tertiaris (or inner secondaries) and the 
median and greater coverts rich bronzy-green. In certain ligths 
there is a rosy-purple tinge on the upper hind neck and 
scapulars. 
Hab.: Ugi. 
— 181. Leptoptila fulviventris. 
G. N. Lawr@ene, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sc. Vol. 2 No. 9 1882 
p- 287. 
Fore part of the head of a pale bluish white; top of the head, 
back and wings, olive brown; on the rump there is a slight green- 
ish tinge; the metallie color on the sides of the neck is light 
violet red, changing to green on the hind neck; the upper tail- 
coverts and central tail-feathers are colored like the back, the 
outer tail-feather is blackish brown, ending with white on the 
inner web, and with light fulvous on the outer; the next feather 
is similarly marked, and has the outer web of a lighter brown at 
the base, for a short distance; the third feather has the outer web 
ruddy brown for two thirds its length from the base, in other re- 
spects colored like the first and second feathers; the fourth feather 
is brown for its entire length except at the end, where it is ful- 
vous white; the primary and secondary -quills are vandyke-brown, 
narrowly edged with pale fulvous white near their ends, tertials 
the color of the back; the wing coverts are of a warmer brown 
than the back, chin whitish, the sides of the head, the throat and 
the breast are ofa rather dark reddish fawn-color; the upper part 
and sides of the abdomen, and the flanks are of a clear light ful- 
vous; the middle of the abdomen and the under tail-coverts are 
white; tinged with fulvous; under wing-coverts and axillars deep 
reddish cinnamon; the inner margins of the quills edged with very 
pale einnamon; bill black ; tarsus and toes dull fleshy brown, in the 
dried state. Length (skin), 10!/, inches; wing 51%; tail 4'%; 
bill !1/, 6; tarsus %,. 
