72 TROCUILI. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining grass-green ; crown and under 

 surface glittering grass-green, the former a little more golden ; tail 

 shining green, rather darker and more olive than the back, the 

 lateral pair of rectrices very narrow and gradually tapering to a 

 rounded end ; bill black. Total length about 3-3 inches, wing 1-75, 

 tail (slightly forked) O-'J, biU OS. 



Adult female. Upper surface shining golden green, duller on the 

 crown, greener on the central rectrices ; under surface dingy white ; 

 ear-coverts black ; lateral rectrices green at the base, white at the 

 tip, and with a subterminal steel-blue band. They seem narrower 

 than in P. poortmani. 



Hah. Venezuela and Colombia. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Merida, Venezuela {Goering). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b, c. c? ad. ; d. Merida. Could Coll. 



$ ad. sk. (Types of P. acuticaudus. ) 



e. $ ad. sk. Oca.na.,Co\om\iia,{C.W:Wyatt) Salvin-Godman Coll. 



16. EUPHERUSA. 



Type. 

 Eupherusa, Gould, Mon. TrocJi. v. pi. 324 (Sept. 1857) ; 



Intr. Troch. p. 163 E. eximia. 



Range. Central America from S.W. Mexico to Panama. 



Key to the Species. 



Two lateral rectrices white towards the base. 

 a'. Basal two-thirds of the inner web of the lateral 

 rectrices and the shaft adjoining white ; 



outer web black eximia, p. 72. 



b '. Lateral rectrices tipped with black, outer web 



white next the shaft, edged only with black, egregia, p. 73. 

 Four lateral rectrices on either side white towards 

 the base, grey on the outer web and tip poliocerca, p. 74. 



1. Eupherusa eximia. 



Ornismya eximia, Delattre, Echo du Monde Sav. 1843, p. 1069. 

 Chlorestes y. Saucerottia eximia, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 8. 

 Saucerottia eximia, lip. Rev. Zoul. 1854, p.'255. 

 Amazilia eximia, Reich. Troch. Enum. p. 8, pi. 776. f 4802. 

 Eupherusa eximia, Gmdd, Mon. Troch. v. pi. 324 (Sept. 1857); id. 



Intr. Troch. p. 163 ; 8cl. ^- Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 1.30 ; Salv. Ibis, 1860, 



pp. 195, 271 ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 316 ; Mids. Sf Verr. Class. Troch. 



p. 32 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 272, pi. 25, iv. p. 170 ; 



Elliot, Sgn. Troch. p. 212: Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. 



p. 333. 

 Polytmus eximius, Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 1 33. 

 Euphrerusa eximia, Muls. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lgon, xxii. p. 205. 



