MOMOTIDAE 



oil-green above, with a blue tinge on the blackish primaries and 

 the end of the tail, the two median rectrices being much elon- 

 gated and having, terminal blue racquets ; the under parts and 

 head are cinnamon, the cheeks black, while a tuft of long black 

 feathers adorns the neck below. Uumomota superciliaris of 

 Central America is green 



above, with cinnamon mantle 

 and blue remiges and rectrices 

 tipped with black, the two 

 median tail-feathers having 

 elongated bare shafts with 

 broad racquet-tips, half blue 

 and half black. On the sides of 

 the head are black bands and 

 light blue eyebrows, while the 

 throat is black with long 

 blue lateral feathers, and the 

 abdomen chestnut. Momotus 

 Irasiliensis, extending from 

 Guiana to Northern Brazil, is 

 somewhat similar in colour, 

 but has little red on the back ; 

 the head is cobalt-blue with 

 black on the crown and sides ; 

 the under parts are green 

 with a rufous tinge. The 

 long throat-feathers are black 

 with light blue edges. Aspa- 

 tha gularis of Guatemala is 

 bright green above, and has 

 a yellowish breast ; the ab- 

 domen and throat are pale 



, , . , , I I T . cj_ ^ 1.x. Fig. 78. — Motmot. Momotus Irasiliensis. x J. 



blue, With a black tult at the 



base of the latter ; the sides of the head are reddish-fawn with 



black ear-coverts. The tail is normal. 



Sub-fam. 2. Todinae. — This includes four diminutive species 

 of the genus Todus, structurally resembling the Motmots ; the 

 tail, however, being short and square, the wings abbreviated with 

 only ten secondaries, the beak flattened and but faintly serrated, 

 and the rictal bristles well-developed. 



The long metatarsus is 



