CAMPYLOPTEEUS.— PH^OCHEOA. 325 



Supra nitenti-aureo-viridis, capite summo obscimore : subtus ciiinamomeus, abdomine medio pallidiore, tectri- 

 cibus auricularibus brunnescentioribus : caudae rectricibus mediis dorso fere concoloribus, reUqiiis ad basia 

 cmnamomeis, subtus fascia snbterminaK nigra in rectrice extima usque ad rhachidem tantum estendente, 

 pogomo externo igitur omnino cinuamomeo : rostxo nigricante, pedibus cameis. Long, tota circa 5-3, 

 alse 2-S, caudae 20, rostri a rictu 1-2. 



$ mari omnino similis, remigum trium extemomm rhachidibus baud tumidis. (Descr. maris et femins ex 

 Volcau de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. GvAT^EUALA (Constancia^, Skinner ^),I)\ieaas^\Yo\can de Fuego 3, Plains near 

 Pacicia and Patzum (0. S. & P. D. G.); Salvadoe, Yolcan de San Miguel (W. B. 

 Bicliardson ^). 



Lesson described this species in 1840 from a specimen without locality. The species 

 ■was subsequently traced to Guatemala, where Gonstancia met with it and sent ex- 

 amples to Strickland, and where Skinner also found it and supplied Gould with a series 

 of skins. In Guatemala C. rnfus is decidedly a local bird, and the only district in 

 which we met with it is situated between 5000 and 6000 feet above sea-level, and 

 extends from the neighbourhood of the Lake of Atitlan to Duenas and the great 

 volcanoes in the vicinity. It probably ranges further southwards along the highlands, 

 as we have a specimen from the Volcan de San Miguel in Salvador which was shot 

 by Mr. Eichardson in March 1891. 



At some seasons C. i-ufm is very common near Duenas. A nest found in August 

 was in a cypress tree in a coffee-plantation, and was attached to a branch about five 

 feet from the ground. It had two eggs when found, but the nest and eggs were 

 destroyed the following day. The old bird sat very close, allowing one to approach 

 within a foot of the nest. On the slopes of the Volcan de Fuego, near the edge of the 

 Llano of Dueiias, this bird was also very common, especially near the road which leads 

 to the hacienda of Calderas. On the higher ground near Pacicia C. rufus was observed 

 feeding from the flowers of the large species of Yucca which grow on the open plain ; 

 the flowers of the banana {JLusa) are also eagerly sought by this bird. The habits of 

 this species in th\is frequenting more open country and second-growth woods are in 

 strong contrast with those of C. hemileucurus, which is a denizen of the denser forest. 



d". Rostrum suhrectum ; teguIcB nasales viagis expositce ; remigum rhachides 



plerumgue normales. 



PH^OCHROA. 

 Phaochroa, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 54 ; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 299. 



Phceochroa was separated by Gould from the South-American Aphantochroa and 

 from Campylopterus, from both of which it has slight points of difference. It most 

 resembles the former in the sombre colour of both its species ; but the lateral rectrices 

 are tipped with white and the outer primaries are slightly thickened. The latter 



