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character, however, is not well defined, and is carried to nothing like the extent seen 

 in Campylo'pterus. 



Two species constitute the genus, one of them belonging to Eastern Guatemala and 

 thence southward to Nicaragua, the other to Costa Eica, Panama, and probably the 

 north-western corner of South America. 



1. Phaeocliroa cuvieri. 



TrocUlus cuvieri, Delattre & Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 310 \ 



Campylopterus cuvieri, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 52 (Sept. 1856) ' ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 140 ' ; 



Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 319*; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 121 '. 

 PIuBochroa cuvieri, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 55 ° ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 365 ' ; Salv. P. Z. S. 



1867, p. 153'; 1870, p. 205 ^ Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 399"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 



ix. p. 121 ". 



Supra nitenti-viridis : subtus obscurior, plumis omnibus griseo marginafcis, abdomine griseo, subcaudalibus 

 viridi-griseis albido marginatis ; caudae rectricibus mediis viridibus, lateralibus albo terminatis et fascia 

 subterminali nigra notatis : rostro nigro, mandibulse bitriente basali carnea. Long, tota circa 4*6, alae 2*7, 

 caudse 1"7, rostri a rictu 1. 



5 mari similis. (Descr. maris et feminsB ex Lion Hill, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. Costa Eica, Punta Arenas {0. S.'^°), Mirabayes, Bebedero de Nicoya (ArcS^'^), 

 Pozo Azul de Pirris {Zeledon * ^) ; Panama {Delattre ^), David {Bridges ^), Bugaba ^ 

 {ArcS), Lion Hill {0. S., M'Leannan ^ ''), Paraiso {Hughes'^'^). — Colombia'? 

 Venezuela ■? 



This species was discovered by Delattre and described by him and Bourcier in 1846 

 from specimens said to have been shot on the Isthmus of Panama and at Teleman. If 

 the latter place is the village of that name on the banks of the Polochic river in 

 Guatemala, both P. cuvieri and P. roberti were included in Delattre 's collection. The 

 description undoubtedly refers to the Panama bird, as the colour of the base of the 

 mandible is given as white, that of P. roberti being wholly black. 



The range of this species, as given by Gould, extends to Colombia and Venezuela, 

 but we have never seen specimens from any place south of the line of the Panama 

 Eailway. Northwards and westwards of this line it spreads over the rest of the State 

 of Panama to Western Costa Eica, where it is not uncommon on the shores of the Gulf 

 of Nicoya. In Nicaragua, and thence northwards to British Honduras, its place is 

 taken by P. roberti. 



2. PhsBochroa roberti. 



Aphantochroa roberti, Salv. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 203'; Heine, J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 178 ^ 



Campylopterus roberti, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 53 (Sept. 1861) '. 



Phoeochroa roberti, Gould, Intr. Troch. p. 55*; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 406'; Salv. 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 300 \ 

 Trochilus cuvieri? (partim), Delattre & Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 310 ^ 



