GO. EUCEPHALA. 239 



60. EUCEPHALA. 



Type, 



Hylocliaris y. Eucephala, Reich. Auf. d. Col. p. 10 E. grayi. 



Chlorestes, Reich. Aufz. d. Col. p. 7 E. cserulea. 



Chrysolampis (Ilalia), Muh. ^- Verr. Class. Troch. p. 41. . E. cserulea. 

 Ulysses, Muh. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 208 ; id. 



Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, ii. p. 41 E. grayi. 



lianr/e. Tropical South America. 



Kei/ to the Species. 



a. Crown glitterin<r blue ffi'C!/>, P- 239. 



b. Crowu glitteriuy- greenish blue. 



a'. Throat and breast glittering green smaraffdinea, p. 240. 



b'. Throat and breast ghttering bluish green. . p.V'opi/ffia, p. 241. 



c. Crown glittering green chlorucephala, p. 241. 



c. Under surface glittering golden green. 



a" . Larger ccerulea, p. 241 . 



b". Smaller cijanoyenys, p. 243. 



d. Crown dull dark green. 



d' . Throat and breast glittering bluish gr^'en. 

 c" . Central rectrices steel-blue ; sides of the 



interseapulium blue scapidata, p. 243, 



d" Central rectrices purple-bronze ; inter- 



scapiiUuni wholly green cmndeo-lavata, p. 244. 



e' . Throat and breast glitteiing blue. 



e" . Upper tail-coverts reddish bronze h>ij)oc]ian€a, p. 244. 



f". Upper tail-coverts dull green suhcccrulea , p. 244. 



1 . Eucephala grayi. 



Trochilus grayi, Delattrc ^- Bourc. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. .307. 

 Hvlocbaris gravi, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 74 ; Mids. Sf Verr. Class, 



'Troch. p. 38 ;■ Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 148. 

 Hvlocbaris y. Eucephala gravi, Reich. Avfz.d. Col. p. 10; id. Troch. 



'Enum p. 8, pi. 772. ff. 4789-91. 

 Sapphironia grayi, Bp. R. Z. 1854, p. 256. 

 Eucephala grayi, Gould, Man. Troch. v. pi. 330 (Sept. 1857) ; id. 



Intr. Troch. p. 166 ; Cab. ^- Heine, Mas. Hein. iii. p. 43 ; Scl. Cat. 



Am. B. p. 316; Elliot, Ibis, 1874, p. 88; id. Syn. Troch. p. 228; 



Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mtis. Caen, i. p. 451. 

 Ulysses grayi, Mids. Hist. Aat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 41, iv. p. 192 ; id. 



Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii. p. 208. 



Adult male. Upper surface shining golden green ; crown and 

 entire head glittering blue ; rest of tlie under surface glittering 

 golden green ; under tail-coverts dull green, edged with greyish 

 white : tail steel-blue : bill flesh-colour at the base, black at the 

 tip. Total length about 4 inches, wing 2'35, tail 1-3, bill I'l. 



Female. Upper surface shining golden green, dull on the crown ; 

 under surface greyish white, the feathers of the sides of the neck 

 and flanks with sliiuing green discs ; under tail-coverts grej-ish 



