AULACORAMPHUS CTSRULEICI N CTU S. 
Blue-banded Groove-bill. 
Specific Character. 
Aid. rostro plumbeo, apice tomiisque pallide cornels ; uropygio sanguineo ; mento, guld, genarwm 
parte anticd lineoldque supra ocidos albidis. 
Crown of the head, back, wings and tail dark grass-green ; across the upper tail-coverts a broad 
patch of deep blood-red ; four centre tail-feathers largely tipped with chestnut-brown ; 
stripe over the eye, sides of the face and throat white washed posteriorly with blue; ear- 
coverts, chest and all the under surface yellowish green, deepening into rufous on the 
under tail-coverts; across the lower part of the chest a band of light blue ; primaries black, 
margined externally with green; bill dark bluish lead-colour, becoming lighter towards 
the tip, which, as well as the serrations of both mandibles, are whitish horn-colour ; feet 
lead-colour. 
Total length, 154 inches; bill, 3f ; wing, 5f; tail, 64; tarsi, IT 
Pteroglossus cceruleicinctus, D’Orb. Voy. dans l’Amer. Mer. Ois., tab. 66. fig. 2.—Gray and 
Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 404, Pteroglossus, sp. 30. 
-— Lichtensteinii, Sturm s Edit, of Gould’s Mon. of Ramph. 
Aidacoramphus cceruleicinctus, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 96, Aulacoramphus, sp. 8. 
Like Aulacoramphus atrogularis, this well-marked species is an inhabitant of the Cinchona woods, clothing 
the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes, where it is known to the Indians by the name of Chukimbi. 
This species was named by the Messrs. Sturm Pteroglossus Lichtensteinii, in honour of my old and valued 
friend Dr. Lichtenstein, the Director of the Royal Museum in Berlin, and it would have given me very great 
pleasure to have retained this justly complimentary appellation for so fine a bird ; but as I find that it had 
been previously called cceruleicinctus by M. D’Orbigny, the law of priority obliges me to give this name the 
preference. 
The Aulacoramphus cceruleicinctus is rendered remarkable by the blue-grey colouring of its bill, by its 
white throat, and by the cEerulean blue band crossing the chest. It is a very rare species, but specimens 
are contained in the Royal Museum at Berlin, in the Collection at the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, and in 
my own. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
