CAMPYLOPTERUS HYPERYTHRUS, Qab. 



Rufous-breasted Sabre-wing*, 



Campylopteriis hyperythrm, Cabanis in Rich. Scliomb. Reisen in Brit. Guiana, 1848, vol. iii. 



p. 709, No. 202. 

 Takui, of the Arekuna Indians, Schomb. 



We are indebted to the researches of the Chevalier Schomburgk for the discovery of this new species of 

 Campy lopterus, of which the single specimen he procured — an adult male — now graces the collection of the 

 Museum at Berlin ; and I would here beg to record my thanks to Dr. Lichtenstein, the Director of that 

 Institution, for his kindness in permitting this rare bird to be removed to London, for the purpose of its 

 being described and figured in the present work. It was discovered on the Roraima Mountains, in the 

 interior of Guiana, at an elevation of 6000 feet above the level of the sea, where it was busily engaged in 

 procuring its food among the flowering bushes of Mimosa, and other plants of that region. It is a stout 

 thick-set species, with a much shorter bdl and wings than the Campylopteriis rufas ; has the colouring of the 

 under surface of a much darker hue than in that species ; the four central tail-feathers more golden, and 

 the three lateral feathers on each side uniform rufous, without a trace of the black bar so conspicuous in 

 its near ally. 



Head, upper surface, and wing-coverts bronzy green ; four central tail-feathers golden bronze, both on 

 their upper and under surface; three lateral feathers on each side uniform rufous; wings purplish brown; 

 all the under surface dark rust-reel ; bill black, except the basal half of the under mandible, which is fleshy 

 brown ; feet dark brown. 



The figures are of the natural size, on a beautiful CUtoria, copied from an unpublished drawing made in 

 Guiana. 



