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PATAGONIAN EXrEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



Genus EUSTEPHANUS Reichenbach. 



Eustephanus Reich. Au. Syst. pi. 40 (1849) ; type E. galeritus. 



GeogyapJiical Range. — Chili and Patagonia to the Straits of Magellan 

 and Tierra del Fuego and the islands of Juan Fernandez. 



Eustephanus galeritus (Molina). 

 Trochilus galeritus Molina, Sagg. St. Nat. Chil. p. 219, 1782 (Chili). 



Description. — Adult male, 65427 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philada. Total length, 

 4.30 inches; wing, 2.50; culmen, .50; tail, L50; tarsus, .26. Above 

 shining bronze green, crown brilliant metallic red, remiges blackish, below 

 pale fulvous, the feathers, except the middle of the abdomen, with a single 

 spot of metallic green. 



The female lacks the red crown. 



Geographical Range. — The west coast of Southern South America, 

 north to 30° south latitude, ranging south into the forests of Tierra del 



Fig. 374. Eustephanus galeritus, adult female, P. U. O. C. 7986. Natural size. 



Fuego ; the Straits of Magellan ; Patagonia north to the west throughout 

 the Province, but on the eastern coast not recorded north of the mouth 

 of the Rio Santa Cruz; Chiloe and the islands of the Chonos Archi- 

 pelago; the island of Juan Fernandez. 



This humming-bird, characteristic of the Straits of Magellan, and the 

 forests of Tierra del Fuego, in both of which regions it is represented 

 throughout the year, was found by the Princeton naturalists as far north 



