328 TROCHILIDA. 
1. Eugenes fulgens. 
Trochilus fulgens, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 441". 
Eugenes fulgens, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 59°; Moore, P.Z.S. 1859, p. 53°; Sel. & f-- 7 
1859, p. 1284; Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 261’, 263°; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 8027; Sel. 
P. Z. S. 1864, p. 176°; Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xx. p. 273°; Dugés, La Nat. i. 
p. 141°; Henshaw, in Wheeler’s Geogr. & Geol. Surv., Zool. v. p. 879**; Villada, La Nat. 
ii. p. 349, t. i. fig. 5; de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 164”; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 250"; 
Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 157"; Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. p. 822". 
Celigena fulgens, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 2877; 1858, p. 297°; 1859, pp. 367 °, 386”. 
Ornismya rivolii, Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxvi, 48, t. 4 a 
Ornismya clemencie 2 , Less. Suppl. Ois.-Mouches, p. 115, t.8”. 
Trochilus melanogaster, Licht. in Mus. Ber., fide Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 20 * 
Eugenes viridiceps, Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, (2) xxv. p. 55 (187 8). 
Supra saturate cupreo-viridis, nitidus, cervice postica et dorso antico nigris a fronte adspectis; capite summo 
lete micanti-violaceo: subtus gula micanti-viridi, pectore et abdomine medio nigris a fronte, viridibus a 
tergo adspectis, abdomine imo griseo, tectricibus subcaudalibus pallide viridibus griseo late marginatis ; 
cauda cupreo-viridi: rostro nigro. Long. tota circa 5:5, ale 3:0, caude rectr. lat. 1°85, rectr. med. 1°5, 
rostri a rictu 1-4. 
Q supra saturate gramineo-viridis, nitida; capite summo fuscescente: subtus grisea, gula plumis medialiter 
fuscis, hypochondriis viridi lavatis; caude rectricibus lateralibus griseo-albo terminatis et fascia lata 
subterminali chalybeo-nigra ornatis. (Descr. maris et feminew ex Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. 
nostr.) 
Hab. Norta America, Arizona ".—Mexico, Sierra de San Luis Potosi, Sierra de Val- 
paraiso, Sierra de Nayarit, Sierra de Bolafios (W. B. Richardson"), Guanajuato 
(Dugés 1°), Temiscaltepec (Bullock 1), Valley of Mexico (White®, Herrera 1°), Chi- 
malpa, Hacienda Eslava in the Valley of Mexico (/. Ferrari-Perez"), Ajusco Valley of 
Mexico (W. B. Richardson"), Rio Frio, Ixtaccihuatl (W. B.#.7), Puebla (f. Ferrari- 
Perez ), La Parada (Boucard®), Alpine region of Orizaba (Sumichrast*), Las Vigas 
(Ferrari-Perez), Jalapa (de Oca’? , Ferrari-Perez °, M. Trujillo"), Coatepec (de 
Oca 8), Mirador (Sartorius, in U. S. Nat. Mus.), Cordova (Sallé"), Totontepec 
(Boucard ®°), Sierra Nevada de Colima (W. B. Richardson), Omilteme and Xucu- 
manatlan in Guerrero (Mrs. H. H. Smith’), Tonaguia (M. Trujillo’), Oaxaca 
(Fenochio"); Guatemaua (Skinner +), El Rincon in San Marcos, Santa Maria, San 
Martin, Chuipaché in Quezaltenango (W. B. Richardson’), Volcan de Fuego ®, 
Duefias >, Mountains of Chilasco, Tactic ®, Coban ® (0. S.& F. D. G.7); Nicaragua, 
San Rafael del Norte (W. B. Richardson). 
This well-known species of the Mexican highlands crosses the northern political 
boundary of Mexico and enters Southern Arizona. Thence it spreads southwards over 
the sierras of North-western Mexico and over the tableland, including the valley and 
the higher parts of the States of Vera Cruz, Colima, Guerrero, and Oaxaca. In Guate- 
mala it is only found in the mountainous portions at.an elevation of from 4000 to 8000 
feet. Near Duefias, where the ravines of the Volcan de Fuego open out into the plain, 
