16. ETTPHERTJSA. 73 



Adult male. Upper surface dark shining grass-green ; under surface 

 o-littering grass-green ; under tail-coverts pure white ; wings purple- 

 black, secondaries chestnut with dark tips ; tail nearly black, central 

 rectri'ces tinged with bronze, two lateral rectrices on either side witli 

 the inner web and shaft adjoining white for two thirds of their 

 length, outer web black : bill black, feet flesh-colour. Total length 

 about 3-8 inches, wing 2-3, tail 1-4, bill 0-8. 



Adult female. Upper surface, wiugs, and tail hke those of the male ; 

 under surface including the under tail-coverts dusky white. 



Hab. Guatemala. 



a b. S ad. sk. Chimalapa, Tehuantepec, March Salnu-Godman Coll. 

 ' ' & April ( W. B. Richardson), 



e S ad. sk. Sien-a de San Domingo, Tehuan- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



tepee, April ( W. B. R.). 

 d c? ad sk Choctuiu, Guatemala, Feb. (0. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



S. ^- F. D. G.). 

 e J ad sk Kamkhal, Vera Paz, Jan. (O. .S. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



SfF.D.G.). 

 f-h. S ad. ; i-h. Coban, Guatemala, Nov. (0. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2 ad. sk. 

 l^p. <S ad.; q, r. Guatemala ((?. U. Skinner). Gould Coll. 



$ ad. sk. 



2. Eupherusa egregia. 



Euphemsa egregia, Scl. l^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 389 ; Lmvr. Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 146; Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 316, 1870, 

 p 210 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 274, iv. p. 179 ; 

 Bourc. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 71 ; Elliot, Syn. Troch. p. 213 ; Eudes- 

 Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 335 ; Sharpe in Goulds Stqypl. Troeh. 

 (April 1885). 



Eupherusa eximia, Laivr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 127. 



Polytmus egregius. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 133. 



Euphrerusa egregia, Muls. Ann. Sac. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 205. 



Adult male. Similar to that of E. eximia, but with the central 

 rectrices clearer bronze, and with the outer webs of the laterals 

 white next the shaft, the edge only being dark. 



Female differs in having the white on the lateral rectrices ex- 

 tending to the tip of the shaft and either side of it, having a dark 

 margin only near the tip. 



Young male. Like the female, but darker beneath ; the glittering 

 feathers of the under surface of the adult commencing to appear 

 about the middle of the throat and thence spreading over the under 

 surface. 



Hab. Costa Rica and Panama. 



a-c. c? ad.; d-f. Costa Rica {Carmiol). Salvin-Godman & 



j ad. sk. Gould Colls, 



a. S .iuv. ; h, i. Costa Rica {Endres). Gould Coll. 



$ ad. sk. 



