272 TROCHILIDZ. 
2. Eupherusa egregia. 
Eupherusa egregia, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 389°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 146’; Salv. 
P. Z.S. 1869, p. 316°; 1870, p.210*; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 73°; Boucard, P. Z. S. 
1878, p.71°; Sharpe, in Gould’s Mon. Troch., Suppl. (text) "; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa 
Rica, 1887, p. 122°. 
Eupherusa eximia, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 127 (nec Delattre) *. 
E. eximic similis, sed rectricibus mediis pallidiore cupreis, rectricibus duabus utrinque externis in pogonio 
externo (margine ipso excepto) albis. 
2 caude rectricibus duabus utrinque lateralibus omnino albis, interdum ad apicem utrinque nigro stricte lim- 
batis. (Descr. exempl. typ. ex Costa Rica. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica (Carmiol, Endres), Cervantes, Barranca (Carmiol°), Cervantes de 
Cartago (Zeledon’); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Castillo 1, Calovevora’ (Arcé). 
An immature male from Castillo and a female from Calovevora were the first 
specimens we received of this species, and formed the types of the description’. About 
the same time Mr. Lawrence examined specimens from Costa Rica, but referred them 
to the more northern ally Z. eximia®. Now that the bird is better known to us from 
adult specimens sent us both from the Volcan de Chiriqui and Costa Rica, it proves to 
be readily distinguishable from its near ally, the greater extent of white on the outer 
rectrices being sufficient to separate them. | 
3. Eupherusa poliocerca. 
Eupherusa poliocerca, Elliot, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1871, viii. p. 266'; Syn. Troch. p. 212°; de Oca, 
La Nat. iii. p. 302, fig. 44°; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 271,t. 24°; Gould, Mon. 
Troch., Suppl. t. 55 (April, 1881) °; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 74°. 
E. eximic similis, quoad corporis et ale colores; caude rectricibus mediis pallide cupreo-viridibus et rectri- 
cibus quatuor utrinque ad basin albis ad apicem et ad pogonium externum ad purpureo-griseum gradatim 
mutandis. 
© adhuc ignota. 
Hab. Mexico, Omilteme (Mrs. H. H. Smith ®%), Putla (Rébouch'). 
Mr. Elliot described this species from specimens obtained at Putla in Western 
Mexico by the French collector Rébouch, who sent them to M. Boucard!. The only 
other specimens we have seen formed part of the collection formed for us by Mrs. 
Herbert H. Smith in the Sierra Madre del Sur at Omilteme, a small place situated 
in the mountains above Chilpancingo at an elevation of 8000 feet above sea-level. 
Mrs, Smith secured two males in beautiful condition in the month of July, but no 
females; and that sex still remains unknown to us, 
d°, Rostrum brevius, magis arcuatum. 
ELVIRA. 
Leucochloris (Elvira), Mulsant & Verreaux, Class. Troch. p. 32 (1865). 
Elvira, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 266; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 74. 
