Genera of Huinining Birds. 297 



r Eugene de Rivoli, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, t. ii., 

 P- 213. 



Habitat. — United States, Mexico and Guatemala. 



Male. — Top of head and crown brilliant metallic violet-blue. 

 Upperside shining bronze-green, appearing almost black on 

 neck and upper part of back, and with golden reflections 

 when seen from behind. Median rectrices bronze-g-reen, 

 remainder bronzy-brown. A white spot behind the eye. Ear- 

 coverts black. Throat brilliant metallic green. Underside 

 dark bronze-green appearing almost black on breast and 

 upper part of abdomen. Flanks bronze-green with golden 

 reflections. Vent white. Undertail-coverts pale green, mar- 

 gined with white. Wings purplish. Bill black. 



Total length, 5in. Wing, 2|. Tail, 2. Culmen, i. 



Female. — Upperside light golden-green, brownish on head. 

 Median rectrices bronzy-green, coppery at tips, lateral and 

 outermost ones bronze-green at base, with a broad subterminal 

 black bar and white tips. Underside gray, washed with 

 green, rest like the male. 



Total length, 5in. Wing, 2|. Tail, i^. Culmen, i. 



I have collected this species in Mexico and Guatemala, 

 where it is abundant in the highlands. 



I have one specimen of a young male from Guatemala 

 which I have described in 1875, in the Annals of the Linnean 

 Society of Lyon, under the name of E. viridiceps ; but I think 

 now that it is only a curious variety of plumage of this 

 species. 



It has the crown of head metallic silvery-green, the throat 

 reddish-gray, and the rest of underside gray, washed with 

 golden-green on sides of breast and on flanks, the lateral 

 and outermost rectrices are broadly tipped with white, the bill 

 is very long. 



415. Eugenes spectabilis, Lawr., Ann., N.Y., Lye, Nat. 



Hist., 1867, vol. viii., p. 472. 



Eugenes spectabilis, Boucard, P.Z.S., 1878, p. 68. 



Costa Rica Humming Bird, Gould, Mon. Troch., Suppl., 

 1886, p. 17. 



r Eugene remarquable, Muls., Hist. Nat. Ois. Mou., 1876, 

 t. ii., p. 215. 



