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[Eugenes] spectabilis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 80. — Mul- 



SANT, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyou, xxii, 1876, 213.- — Shakpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 



122. 

 E[ugenes] spectabilis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 310; Rep. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. for 1890 (1891), 319 (diagnosis, etc.). — Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 



1900, 113. 

 {?)Eugencs spectabilis chiriquensis Nehrkorn, Orn. Monatsb., ix, Sept., 1901, 



132 (Chiriquf, Panama). 



Genus HELIODOXA Gould. 



Heliodoxa « Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1849, 95; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 



1861, 74. (Type, E. jacula Gould.) 

 Leadbeatera Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 70. (Type, L. grata Bonaparte= 



Trochilus leadbeateri Boiircier and Mulsant.) 

 Aspasta b Heine, Joiirn. fiir Orn., xi. May, 1863, 179, in text. (Type, Trochilus 



leadbeateri Boiu-cier and Mulsant.) 

 Eypolia (not of Ridgway, May 11, 1875) Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 



1876, 212 (Cat. Ois.-Mouch., p. 17). (Type, Trochilus leadbmteri Bourcier 



and Mulsant.) 

 Xanthogenyx (typographical error) D'Hamonville, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 



viii, 1883, 77. (Type, Heliodoxa xanthogenys Salvin.) 

 Xanthogenys D'Hamonville, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xi, 1886, 318 (correction). 



Large Trochilidse (length about 115-125 mm.) with straight and 

 rather stout bill about as long as head, nostrils completely hidden by 

 appressed, imbricated, frontal feathering, wing three to nearly four 

 times as long as exposed culmen; adult males with tail more than 

 two-thirds as long as wing, forked, the under parts very brilliant 

 metallic green, a blue spot on throat or else forehead and crown bril- 

 liant violet-blue ; adult females with tail less than two-thirds as long 

 as wing, less deeply forked, the under parts whitish, spotted w^th 

 bright metallic green. 



Bill (unfeathered portion) about as long as head, straight, terete 

 or slightly compressed, rather stout; culmen rounded except at 

 extreme base, where contracted into a rather broad ridge; tomia 

 smooth; mandible with a narrow, rather indistinct, longitudinal 

 median groove. Nasal operculum narrow, straight along edge, wholly 

 covered by the closely appressed and imbricated frontal feathering, 

 wliich advances over base of maxilla to beyond anterior end of nostril, 

 forming a short obtuse point or antia on each side of culmen. Tarsus 

 slender, feathered, except along posterior side; toes slender, the 

 lateral toes about equal in length and slightly shorter than middle 

 toe, the hallux about as long as lateral toes. Wing three to nearly 

 four times as long as exposed culmen, the outermost primary 

 longest. Tail more than two-thirds as long as wing in adult males, 



('■"Hkiog, sol et do^a, gloria. (Gould.) 



6 "Von danaaTog (Geliebt, lieblich)." (Heine.) 



