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[Euphrerusa] eximia Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 205. 

 E[upherusa] eximia Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 89, part. 

 E[upherusa] e[ximia] eximia Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 1910, 



54, in text. 

 [Polytmus] eximius Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 133, no. 1700. 



EUPHERUSA EXIMIA NELSONI Ridgway. 



NELSON'S HUMMING BIRD. 



Similar to E. e. eximia, but larger, especially the bill; adult male 

 with green of under parts more yellowish green, and black tip to inner 

 web of two lateral rectrices (on each side) with line of demarcation 

 against white of basal portion decidedly oblique and much less 

 sharply defined. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 93-103 (98); wing, 60.5-61 (60.7); 

 tail, 34-35.5 (34.7); culmen, 18.5-19 (18.7). « 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Motzorongo) Oaxaca 

 (Chimalapa and Sierra de Santo Domingo, Tehuantepec), and Puebla 

 (Chinantla). 



Eupherusa eximia (not Ornismya eximia Delattre) Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. 

 Lyon, XX, 1874, 280; Notes quelques Troch., 1873, 12 (Chinantla, Puebla).— 

 Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 72, part (Chimalapa and Sierra 

 Santo Domingo, Oaxaca). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 

 1892, 271, part (Chinantla, Puebla; Chimalapa and Sierra Santo Domingo, 

 Oaxaca). 



E[upherusa] eximia Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 89, part. 



Eupherusa eximia nelsoni Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 1910, 

 54 (Motzorongo, Vera Cruz, e. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



EUPHERUSA EGREGIA Sclater and Salvin. 



EGREGIOUS HUMMING BIRD. 



Similar to E. eximia, but larger; adult male with outer webs of 

 two outer rectrices (on each side) white (except terminally), edged 

 with dusky; adult female with outermost rectrix wholly white, or 

 with merely a dusky edging for terminal portion of outer web. 



Adult male. — Above bright metallic bronze-green or greenish 

 bronze; middle pair of rectrices dark dull bronzy, sometimes more 

 dusky terminally, the next two pairs similar but with inner web 

 dull black or dusky, the two outer pairs white broadly tipped and 

 (except inner web) edged with bronzy black or dusky; primaries 

 purplish dusky, the innermost ones becoming cinnamon-rufous 

 basally; secondaries cinnamon-rufous tipped with dusky (the inner- 

 most with metallic bronze-green); under parts bright metallic grass 

 green or yellowish green, the feathers deep gray basally, with a sub- 

 terminal bar of pale gray or grayish white; femoral tufts dull white 

 or grayish white; under tail-coverts pure white; bill dull black, the 

 mandible sometimes brownish basally; iris dark brown; feet light 



o Two specimens. 



