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and Orizaba. Boucard, who met with it at Teotalcingo, records that it breeds there 

 in the month of March, and a nest and eggs obtained by him were sent to M. Salle. 

 Deppe's specimens were probably secured near Misantla, where Godman found the 

 bird not uncommon in the month of March. It occurs in the neighbourhood of this 

 district during the greater part of the year, as we have records of it also in May, June, 

 and October. 



d"'. Cauda rotundata. 



CAMPYLOPTERUS. 



Campyloptems, Swainson, Zool. Journ. iii. p. 358 ; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. :Mus. xvi. p. 288. 

 Platystylopterus, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 11. 



Nine species are contained in this genus, which has a wide range in Tropical 

 America from Bolivia and the Valley of the Amazons to Southern Mexico. Of these 

 only two occur within our region, both of them being peculiar to it — one of them 

 (C. hemileucurus) ranging from Southern Mexico to the State of Panama, keeping, 

 however, to the forests of the more mountainous parts : the other [C. rufus) is only 

 found in the Guatemalan highlands and the districts adjoining to the southwards. 



The peculiar swollen shafts to the outer three primaries of the wing of the male, 

 together with the rounded tail, are characters which distinguish Campylopterus from 

 all its allies. 



1. Campylopterus hemileucurus. 



Trochilus hemileucurus, Licht. Preis-Verz. ]\Iex. Vog. p. 1 (c/. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 55) '. 

 Campylopterus hemileucurus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 13 ^ ; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 162 ^ ; 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 176 ^ ; Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 204 ' ; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 205 ' ; Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus. xvi. p. 291 ' ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 121 ' ; BuU. U. S. Xat. Mus. no. 4, p. 32 ' ; 



V. Frantz. J. £. Orn. 1869, p. 315 "; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 68 "j Sumichrast, La Nat. 



V. p. 250 '=; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 501 "; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



ix. p. 157"; Berl. J. f. Orn. 1887, p. 316 "j Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, 



p. 121 '\ 

 Omismya delattrii, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 14 ". 

 Campylopterus delattrii, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 45 (Sept. 1855 '') ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 287" ; 



1859, pp. 367 =■", 385 =' ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 127 " ; Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 195 ", 260 " ; 



de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 20, t. — ". 



Lsete saturate violaceo-cyaneus micans, capite summo obscure viridi-cyaneo, fere nigro, tectricibus alarum et 

 supracaudalibus saturate viridibus ; Cauda chalybeo-nigra, rectricibus mediis viridi lavatis, rectricibus tribus 

 ufcrinque lateralibus late albo terminatia : rostro nigro. Long, tota circa 6-0, alae 3-3, caudsB 2-3, rostri a 

 rictu 1"3. 



2 supra nitenti-Tiridis, capite summo nigricanti-cupreo tincto : subtus grisea, cervicis lateribns, bypocbondriis 

 et tectricibus subcaudalibus viridibus, gula micanti-violacea ; caudse rectricibus mediis dorso fere coucolot 

 ribus, tribus utrinque lateralibus albo late termiaafcis : rostro nigro. (Descr. maris et feminae ex Coban, 

 Guatemala, ilus. nostr.) 



Eab. Mexico {Depps'^), Jalapa (Delattre^\ de Oca^^^^ F. Ferrari-Perez ^^ M. Tru- 



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