BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 361 
CAMPYLOPTERUS RUFUS Lesson. 
RUFOUS SABRE-WING. 
Adult male.—Above bright metallic bronze-green or greenish bronze, 
becoming more bronzy on upper tail-coverts and middle rectrices, the 
pileum slightly darker and duller, with feathers narrowly and indis- 
tinctly margined with dusky; middle pair of rectrices wholly metallic 
bronze or greenish bronze, the next pair similar but with a broad, 
ill-defined, subterminal band of blackish and tipped with Ganamen; 
next pair similar but with basal half or more of outer web (less on 
inner web) deep vinaceous-cinnamon or cinnamon-rufous, the blackish 
subterminal band more sharply defined and the cinnamon tip broader; 
next pair with outer web cinnamon-rufous almost if not quite to the 
black subterminal band and inner web with the same color propor- 
tionally increased in extent, the cinnamomeous tip still broader; 
outermost pair with outer web wholly cinnamon-rufous (paling 
slightly terminally), the inner web the same color but interrupted by 
a broad subterminal band of black preceded anteriorly by a narrow 
one of greenish bronze ; remiges dusky, faintly glossed with violaceous; 
under parts plain vinaceous-cinnamon, slightly paler medially, the 
downy femoral tufts white; maxilla dull black, mandible dusky 
brownish (in dried skins); iris dark brown; feet light grayish brown 
(in dried skins); length (skins), 127-138 (182); wing, 71-76 (73.5); 
tail, 47.5-51.5 (49.2); culmen, 25-27.5 (26.3).¢ 
Adult female.—Similar in coloration to the adult male but black 
subterminal area on inner web of lateral rectrix roundish instead of 
quadrate, and shafts of outer primaries not conspicuously thickened; 
length (skins), 121-135 (128); wing, 68.5-74.5 (71.5); tail, 49.5-50 
(49.7); culmen, 26-26.5 (26.2).° 
Highlands of Guatemala, 5,000-7,000 feet altitude (Guatemala 
City; Duefias; Atitlén; Volcan de Fuego; plains near Pacicia and 
Patzim). 
Campylopterus rufus Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1840, 73 (loc. ignot.).—BOoNAPARTE, 
Consp. Av., i, 1849, 71; Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 250.—Gouxp, Mon. 
Troch., pt. iii, 1852 (vol. ii, 1861), pl. 50; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 54.— 
Sctater and Savin, Ibis, 1859, 127 (Duefias and Atitl4n, Guatemala).— 
Satvin and Scrater, Ibis, 1860, 38 (Duefias; habits)—Sanvin, Ibis, 1860, 
195, 263, 264; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 294, 664.—ScLatEr, Cat. Am. 
Birds, 1862, 288 (Duefias, Guatemala) —Mutsant and VERREAUX, Classif. 
Troch., 1866, 22; Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 2, 1874, 133 —Mu.sant, 
Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 202.—Euior, Classif. and Synop. Troch., 
1879, 25.—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 324 (Duefias, 
Volcén de Fuego, and plains near Pacicia and Patztim, Guatemala, Volcan 
de San Miguél, Salvador).—Ripeway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 310 
(Duefias; Guatemala City)—Dzarzorn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 
96 (Lake Atitl4n, Guatemala). 
@ Five specimens. + Four specimens. 
