AULACORAMPHUS H ASM ATOPY GIUS, Gould. 
Blood-rumped Groove-bill. 
Specific Character. 
Aul. rostra brevi, castaneo-rubro; mandibidd inferior e in medio , et culmine nisi ad basin nigro 
undidatis; uropygio coccineo. 
Crown of the head and upper surface brownish green; wings dark green; rump crimson; 
four middle tail-feathers deep bluish green, largely tipped with chestnut-brown, the 
remainder green ; under surface green, faintly stained with blue down the sides of the 
neck and across the breast with light blue ; bill chestnut-red, becoming paler towards the 
point, and clouded with black on the middle of the lower mandible and along the culmen ; 
at the base of the bill a band of straw-white, which increases in breadth as it proceeds 
downwards. 
Total length, 14 inches; bill, 2f; wing, 4f; tail, 54; tarsi, 14. 
Pteroglossas hcematopygus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part II. p. 147-—Gould, Mon. of 
Ramph., pi. 33 .— lb. Sturm’s Edit., pi. .—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. 
p. 404, Pteroglossas, sp. 28. 
Aulacoramphus hcematopygus, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 96, Aulacoramphus, sp. 6. 
On reference to the edition of this work published in 1834, it will he seen that my figure of this species 
was taken from a specimen obligingly lent me by N. C. Strickland, Esq. It now forms part of my own 
collection ; and on again comparing it after the lapse of twenty years with every other known species, I can 
come to no other conclusion than that it is quite distinct from the whole of them : the one to which it is 
most nearly allied is the A. castaneorhynchus, figured on the preceding Plate, but from which it differs in its 
much smaller size, and in its proportionally shorter and stouter bill; differences which perhaps may be con¬ 
sidered trivial, but as they are found to exist in a specimen which is evidently adult, I cannot do otherwise 
than consider it distinct. 
The native habitat of this bird is quite unknown to me—probably some portion of the Cordillerian Andes. 
The figure is exactly of the natural size. 
