AULACORAMPHUS CCERULEICINCTUS.
Blue-banded Groove-bill.
S p e c i f i c C h a r a c t e r .
Aul. rostro plumbeo, apice tomiisque pallide corneis; uropygio sanguineo; mento, guld, genarum
parte antica lineolaque supra oculos 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 b lu e ; 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 b lu e ; primaries black,
margined externally with g re e n ; 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, 15i inches; bill, S f; wing, 5 f ; tail, 6 i ; tarsi, l i .
Pteroglossus cceruleicinctus, D’Orb. Voy. dans l’Amfir. Mir. 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.
Aulacoramphus cceruleicinctus, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 96, Aulacoramplim, sp. 8.
Like Aulacoramphus atrogularis, this well-marked species is an inhabitant of the Cmchona woods, clothing
the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes, where it is known to the Indians by the name of Chuhmbn
This snecies was named by the Messrs. Sturm Pteroglossus Lichtenstemn, 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 p e r t
pleasure to have retained this justly complimentary appellation for so fine a bird ; bu as g fi”d * a t it had
been previously called cceruleicinctus by M. D’Orbigny, the law of priority obliges me to give this name the
IKlliljiiMH cceruleicinctus is rendered remarkable by the bluc-grey colouring of its bill, by its
white throat, and by the cmrulean blue band crossing the chest. It is a very rare species, but specimens
are contained in the Royal Museum a. Berlin, in the Collection at the Jardin des Plantes at Pans, and in
my own.
The figures are of the natural size.