AULACORHAMPHUS ALBIVITTA. 
White-banded Groove-bill. 
Specific Character. 
Aid. rostro nigro, ad basin fascia alba circumdato ; culmine toto ad apicem usque laterumque 
mandibulw superior is partes, citreis in viridiscentem transeuntibus; mandibuld inferiore ante 
fasciam alham macula sanguined not at a; guld albidd. 
All the upper surface and wings dark tinged with brown; on the crown and the nape of the 
neck grass-green ; primaries brownish black, margined externally at the base with dark 
grass-green ; tail deep grass-green, passing into bine towards the extremity, and tipped 
with rich chestnut; throat white in some, grey or bluish white in others; under surface 
pale grass-green, very slightly washed with blue on the breast, and with yellow on the 
flanks; around the orbits and down the sides of the neck bounding the white of the grey 
throat a line of blue; under tail-coverts rich deep chestnut; bill black, with the exception 
of the culmen and upper half of the upper mandible, which are greenish yellow, passing 
into purer yellow at the tip and the lower angle of the under mandible which is chestnut; 
on the sides of both mandibles at the base a broad band of straw-white; orbits red; feet 
greenish lead-colour. 
Male. —Total length, 134 inches; bill, 3f ; wing, 4f; tail, 5± ; tarsi, li. 
Pteroglossus albivitta, Boiss. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 70.—Sturm’s Edit, of Gould’s Mon. of 
Ramph. text. 
- cdbivit talus, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 404, Pteroglossus, sp. 31. 
- microrhynchus, Sturm’s Edit, of Gould’s Mon. of Ramph. 
Aidacoramphus albivitta, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 96, Aidacoramphus, sp. 3. 
This is one of the least of the family of Ilamphastidse yet discovered. It is a native of the Columbian 
Andes, and specimens occur in most of the collections sent from thence to this country. It differs from the 
Pteroglossus prasims of Lichtenstein, to which it is nearly allied, in having a broad band of white down the 
sides of the base of the mandibles. 
Considerable difference occurs in the size of the specimens, which is perhaps due to sex, the larger being 
the males, and the smaller the females. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
