64. EUTOiEKES. 261 



64. EUTOXERES. 



Eutoxeres, Reich. Syst. Av. pi. xl. (1849) ^^^' 



Myiaetina, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1854, p. 249. . .' E. aquila. 



Range. Central America, from Costa Rica southwards, Colombia 

 Jicuador, and Peru. ' 



Key to the Species. 

 a. Tail dark greenish brown, each feather more or less 

 tipped with white ; no blue on the neck ; vertex 

 wholly feathered. 

 a. Shafts of the outer rectriees white for fully half 



their distal ends _ aauila \> '>61 



6'. Shafts of the outer rectriees white onivaVtheir ' P" - • 



tips. ■' 



a'[. Discs of the abdominal feathers buff heterura, p. 262. 



6 . Discs ot the abdominal feathers white salvini, p. 262 



6. Three outer rectriees fulvous ; a blue patch on either 



side of the neck, a longitudinal bare patch along [p 263 



the centre of the vertex ^ condamiHi', ' 



1. Eutoxeres aquila. 

 Trochilus aquila, Zodd. MS. ; Bourc. P. Z. S. 1847 p 42 

 Polytmus aquila, Graij ^ 31itch. Gen. B. i. p. 110 pi ,36" 

 Eutoxeres aquila, i?etcA. Aufz. d. Col. p. 15; Cah. ^- Heine, Mus 



?T '\f- i' ^^la-^: ^' ^"'''- ^^"''- ^'"«^^- P- 13 ; Gould, Ann. 



^' ^^^^- ^: ^- 1^*^^' 1- P- ^36 ; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches i 



p. 2/ pl.i.; id. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xs.il ^. 199; Elliot, Sun. 



Iroch p. 3 (^partim) ; Eudes-Desl. Ann. Mus. Caen, i. p. 70 ■ Berl 



J.f. Urn. 1887, p. 31.3. 

 Myietina aquila, Bj). Ren. Zool. 1854, p. 249. 

 Grypus aquila, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 123. 



Upper surface dark shining green, darker on the crown, bluer on 

 the rump, the feathers of the former narrowly, of the latter broadly 

 edged with dark fulvous ; under surface brownish black, the fea- 

 thers of the throat centred with pale buff, those of the abdomen 

 with white; taU dark greenish brown tipped with white, the 

 shafts also white for more than half their distal ends, the web 

 adjoining gradually becoming more broadly white towards the tip • 

 maxilla brownish black ; mandible yellowish. Total length about 

 5-3 inches, wing 3-1, tail 2-3, biU (chord) 1-1. 



Sexes probably alike. 



Hah. Colombia. 



a-e. Ad. sk. Colombia (Bogota make). Salviu-Godman & 



/. . , Gould Colls. 



f- ^^- «^- Purchased. 



