Genera of Humming Birds. 169 



VAithure a tete noire, Muls., Hist. Nat., Ois. Mou., 1874, 

 vol. i., p. 336. 



Habitat. — Jamaica. 



Male. — Crown with elongated feathers, velvety-black. 

 Upperside dark green. Throat and the whole of underside 

 bright green. Undertail-coverts blue-black. Tail black. 

 Wings brown. Bill red with black tips. 



Total length, gin. Wing, 2#. Tail, 6^. Culmen, \. 



Female. — Head brown. Upperside shining green. Under- 

 side white, tinged with green on the sides and flanks. Median 

 rectrices bronze-green, lateral bronze-green on outer web, 

 remainder bluish-black, tipped white on the two outermost, 

 ones. Upper mandible nearly all black. Lovver mandible red 

 with black tip. 



Total length, 3|in. Wing, 2|. Tail, i-|. Culmen, |. 

 Common in Jamaica. 



Genus LXXI. Eupherusa, Gould, Mon. Troch., 1857, 



part xiv. 

 Type : — O. eximia, Delattre. 



Bill longer than the head, slightly curved. Wing long, 

 reaching the end of tail. Tail even, with the exception of 

 the outermost rectrice, which is slightly shorter than the others. 

 Tarsi clothed. Hind toe shorter than the middle one. Sexes 

 unlike. 



Habitat. — Mexico and Central America. 



244. EUPHERUS.A EXIMIA, Del., Echo du Monde, sav., 1843, 



p. 1069. 



Saiicerottia eximia, Reich., Aufz. der Colib., 1853, p. 8. 



Amazilia eximia, Reich., Troch. Enum., 1855, p. 8. 



Stripe-tail, Gould, Mon. Troch., vol. v., p. 324. 



I' Eiipheruse remarqiiable, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 

 1874, t. i., p. 272. 

 Habitat. — Guatemala. 



Male. — Upperside golden-green, darker on head. Median 

 rectrices dark bronze-green, nearly black on edges and tips, 

 the two outermost ones on each side of inner webs white for 



