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Andes, and specimens occur in most of the
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AULACORHAMPHUS ALBIVITTA

White-banded Groove-bill.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Aul. rostro negro, ad basin fascia alba circumdato ; culmine toto ad apicem usque laterumque

mandibulee superioris partes, citreis in viridiscentem transeuntibus ; mandibuld inferiore ante

fasciam albam macula sanguinea notatd ; guld albida.

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 blue 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, 13: inches; bell, 3%; wang, 42+ tail, 5+; tarsi, 1s.

Pteroglossus albivitta, Boiss. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 70.—Sturm’s Edit. of Gould’s Mon. of
Rampb. text.

- albivittatus, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. il. p. 404, Pteroglossus, sp. ile

lit. of Gould’s Mon. of Ramph.

macrorhynchus, Sturm’s Ec
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yen. Av., p- 99, Aulacoramphus, sp.

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