AULACORAMPHUS HAMATOPYGIU S, Gould

Blood-rumped Grooye-bill.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Aul. rostro brevi, castaneo-rubro ; mandibuld inferiore in medio. et culmine nisi ad basin ni
: 2 ° ASIN NTO

undulatis ; 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 a chestnut-brown, “lhe
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; dell, 2+; wing, 4%; tadl, 5+; tarst, 12.

Pteroglossus heematopygus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part II. p. 147.—Gould, Mon. of
Ramph., pl. 33.—Ib. Sturm’s Edit., pl. —Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. 11.
p. 404, Pteroglossus, sp. 28.

Aulacoramphus hematopygus, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 96, Aulacoramphus, sp. 6.

1834, it will be seen that my figure of this species

On reference to the edition of this work published in :
It now forms part of my own

was taken from a specimen obligingly lent me by N. C. Strickland, Esq. |
collection ; and on again comparing it after the lapse of twenty years with every other known species, I can
: : ‘stinct from the whole of them:
but from which it differs in its

1 it i i the one to which it is

come to no other conclusion than that it is quite d
1 i Ee AS - Diate

most nearly allied is the 4. castaneorhynchus, figured on the preceding Plate,
r bill; differences w
ntly adult, I cannot do otherwise

In 1 p hich perhaps may be con-
much smaller size, and in its proportionally shorter and stoute I I j

sidered trivial, but as they are found to exist in a specimen which is evide

than consider it distinct. ‘on of the Cordillerian Andes
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The native habitat of this bird is quite unknown to me—probably some portion 0

The figure is exactly of the natural size.