UROCIIROA. 



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Eugenes fulgens, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. ii, pi. 5!).— Id., Iiitr. Trocli., octavo cii., p. nS.— Cab. and IIein., 

 Mus. Hein. Tli., iii, p. '20 (IWiO).— Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou.-h., torn, ii, p. 212. 



Iltib. Texas, Mexico, and Guatemala. 



Male. Top of head and occiput metallic violet-blue. Upper and under parts 

 shining bronze-green, back and breast black in most lights. Median rectrices 

 bronze-green ; remainder bronzy-brown, edged with white. Under tail coverts 

 greenish-gray, fringed with gvayish-white. Throat brilliant grass-green. Bill 

 black. Total length, 4| in. Wing, 2| in. Tail, 1| in. C'ulmcn, 1 in. 



Female. Top of head brown. Uj)per surface light green. Under surface grayish- 

 brown, feathers tipped with green. Median rectrices dark green ; lateral ones 

 green at base, with a subterminal blackish-brown bar, and tips white. A small 

 white spot behind the eye. Bill black. 



2. Eugenes spectabilis. 



Heliomasfer spectabilis, Lawr., Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist. (18C7), vol. 8, p. 472, juv. 

 Eugenes spectabilis, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mouth., vol. ii, p. 215, pi. — . 



ITah. Costa Rica. 



3fale. Forehead dull green. Top of head and occiput brilliant dark violet. 

 Upper parts dark gras.s-green, back appearing black in certain lights. Wings 

 purple. Throat metallic dark green, bluish in some lights. Under parts dark 

 grass-green, breast never appearing black in any light. Under tail coverts green 

 tipped with buff. Median rectrices dark bronze-green, remainder bronze-green 

 graduating into blackish-brown, and edged with white on the tips. Bill black. 

 Total length, 5^ in. Wing, 3 in. Tail, 1| in. Bill, 1^ in. 



Young, or possibly a female. Crown dull brown. Entire under parts dull grayish- 

 brown with an ochreous tinge. Flanks dull green, with white pleural spot. Lateral 

 rectrices green at base, a subterminal black bar and tips grayish-white. 



Genus XXVIII.— UROCHRO A. 



Urocliroa, Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xii [1850). — Id., lutr. Troch., octavo cd., 



Fig. 28. 

 Cli. Bill much longer 



than the head, straight. 



Wings reaching nearly 



to the end of the 



rectrices. Tail square, 



feathers pointed at tip; 



tarsi partly clothed ; 



hind toe as long as the 



middle toe. 



Range. Ecuador. 



trwcXroa lougitrrt. Ecnad.ir B.mrcicr. 



Type. 

 p. 56. T. buuyueri, Boucr. 



