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glittering feathers of the crown are not quite uniform in colour, some being bluer than 
others, and as the bright colour has disappeared from the feathers of the throat, we are 
on the whole inclined to think that this bird is a specimen of Hugenes fulgens in an 
abnormal state of plumage, due probably to disease. ‘This view is further strengthened 
by the fact that it came from a country where birds have for many years been collected 
in tens of thousands, and no other has, so far as we know, been found like it. At the 
same time, in placing it under Hugenes fulgens, we must state that we shall welcome 
further evidence, in the form of additional specimens in more perfect plumage, which 
will prove Hugenes viridiceps to be a valid species. 
2. Eugenes spectabilis. 
Heliomaster spectabilis, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. p. 472+; Salv. Ibis, 1868, p. 251 °. 
Eugenes spectabilis, Salv. Ibis, 1869, p. 316°; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 304°; Lawr. Ann. 
Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 121°; x. p. 140°; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 3157; Boucard, P.Z.S. 
1878, p. 68°; Sharpe, in. Gould’s Mon. Troch., Suppl. t. 13 (April 1885) °; Zeledon, An. 
Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 121”. 
E. fulgenti similis, sed pectore nitenti-viridi nec nigro; rectricibus lateralibus ad apicem obscurioribus ; cauda 
minus profunde furcata distinguendus. (Descr. maris ex Irazu, Costa Rica. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica (A. C. Garcia, Endres+), Rancho Redondo (Carmiol*®, Zeledon), 
Volcan de Irazu (Arcé *, Boucard *, Rogers*, Zeledon 1°). 
Mr. Lawrence’s original description of this species was based upon a female which 
he assigned to the genus Heliomaster1; but Gould on seeing the type considered it a 
Eugenes, in which opinion he was undoubtedly right’. Salvin for some time hesitated 
to admit the distinctness of E. spectabilis from E. fulgens, being guided by an imma- 
ture male sent by Arcé from the Volcan de Irazu. Now that adult males have been 
received, there can be no doubt that the two birds, though closely allied, are really 
separated by fairly definite characters. 
E. spectabilis, like H. fulgens, doubtless frequents mountainous districts of consider- 
able elevation, being found, according to M. Boucard, at an altitude ranging between 
6000 and 8000 feet above sea-level on the Volcan de Irazu, where it resorts to a 
parasitic plant resembling a mistletoe which bears a red flower®. Its range seems to 
be very limited and confined to the mountains of Costa Rica. 
f"". Rostrum breve; stria postocularis alba. 
ct, Rostrum modice curvatum ; cauda rectricibus lateralibus albo terminatis. 
COKLIGEN A. 
Celigena, Lesson, Ind. gén. Troch. p. xviii; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 304. 
The single species belonging to this genus, though closely allied to Delattria, which 
has as often as not been placed in it, is nevertheless a somewhat peculiar bird. The 
bill is slightly more curved than in the genera which follow, and none of them have 
