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basal portion cinnamon-rufous; secondaries cinnamon-rufous tipped 

 with dusky (with bronze-green on innermost); under parts bright 

 metallic grass green (more yellowish green in position a), the feathers 

 deep gray basally, this separated from the metallic green tip by a 

 narrow bar of grayish white; femoral tufts grayish white; under tail- 

 coverts pure white; bill dull black, the mandible sometimes slightly 

 brownish basally; iris dark brown; feet light brownish (reddish in 

 life ?); length (skins), 84-93 (89); wing, 56.5-61 (58.7); tail, 32.5-34.5 

 (33.5); culmen, 16-19 (17.6).« 



Adult female. — Above similar to the adult male but secondaries 

 scarcely if at all tipped with dusky, middle rectrices black or dusky 

 terminally, and two lateral rectrices (on each side) i)artly white 

 (next to shaft); under parts (except femoral tufts and under tail- 

 coverts) light brownish gray, the sides spottetl or glossed with metallic 

 green; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 80-90 (85); wing, 

 50.5-54.5 (53.1); tail, 27-31 (29.9); culmen, 16-19.5 (17.6).'' 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult male but bright green of 

 under parts more restricted, the abdomen and flanks mostly grayish 

 brown. 



Guatemala (Coban; Choctum; Kamkhal; track between Cajabon 

 and San Luis; Guatemala City); Nicaragua (Matagalpa; San Rafael 

 del Norte).*' 



Omismya eximia Delattre, Echo du Monde Savant, 1843, 1069, (Coban, Guate- 

 mala). 



[Chlorestes. j. Saucerottia] eximia Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colib., 1854, 8. 



[Saucerottia] eximia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 255. 



[Amazilia] eximia Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 8, pi. 776, fig. 4802. 



Euphenisa eximia Govld, Mon. Troch., v, pt. xiv, 1857, pi. 324; Introd. Troch., 

 oct. ed., 1861, 163.— ScLATER and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 130 

 (Guatemala).— Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 195, 271 (Coban); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xvi, 1892, 72, part (Choctum, Kamkhal, and Cobdn, Guatemala), 656 (Mata- 

 galpa, Nicaragua). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 316. — Mulsant and 

 Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 32; Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 4, 1874, 

 272, part (Vera Paz, Guatemala); ii, livr. 1, 1875, pi. 20; iv, livr. 3, 1878, 

 179. — BoucARD, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xx, 1874, 280; Liste Ois. rec. Guat., 

 1878, 46; Gen. Hum. Birds, 1894, 169 (Guatemala).— Elliot, Classif. and 

 Synop. Troch., 1879, 212.— Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1892, 327 (Matagalpa, 

 Nicaragua); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 271 (Coban, Kamkhal, Choctum, 

 and bet. Cajabon and San Luis, Guatemala; Matagalpa, Nicaragua). 



[Eupherusa] eximia Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 92 (Guate- 

 mala). — Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 116 (Guatemala). 



o Eleven Bpecimens (ten from Guatemala, one from Nicaragua). 



b Eight specimens, from Guatemala. 



The single specimen from Nicaragua (San Rafael del Norte) does not differ, either 

 in coloration or dimensions, from Guatemalan examples, though the length of the 

 culmen is half a millimeter shorter than the minimum of the same measurement in 

 the latter series. 



c There are apparently no records of this species for Salvador nor Hondiuraa. 



