272 TEOCHILID^. 



2. Enphenisa egregia. 



Euphervsa egregia, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 389'; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 146"; Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1869, p. 316'; 1870, p. 210*; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 73"; Boucard, P. Z. S. 



1878, p. 71 ' ; Sharpe, in Gould's Mon. Troch., Suppl. (text) ' ; Zeledon, An. Mns. Nac. Costa 



Rica, 1887, p. 122 ^ 

 Eupherusa eximia, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 127 (nee Delattre) °. 



E. eximice similis, sed reefcricibiis mediis paUidiore cupreis, recfcricibns duabns ntrinque extemis in pc^onio 



extemo (margine ipso exeepto) albis. 

 5 caudsB rectricibus dnabus ntrinque lateralibns omnino albis, interdum ad apicem ntrinqne nigro stricte lim- 

 batis. (Descr. exempl. typ. ex Costa Eica. Mus. nostr.) 



JIai. Costa Rica (Carmiol, Endres), Cervantes, Barranca [Carmiol^), Cervantes de 

 Cartago [Zeledon ^) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Castillo ^, Calovevora ^ {Arce). 



An immature male from Castillo and a female from Calovevora were the first 

 specimens we received of this species, and formed the types of the description ^. About 

 the same time Mr. Lawrence examined specimens from Costa Eica, but referred them 

 to the more northern ally JS. eximia^. Now that the bird is better known to us from 

 adult specimens sent us both from the Volcan de Chiriqui and Costa Rica, it proves to 

 be readily distinguishable from its near ally, the greater extent of white on the outer 

 rectrices being sufficient to separate them. 



3. Eupherusa poliocerca. 



Eupherusa poliocerca, Elliot, Ann. &Mag. N. H. 1871, viii. p. 266'; Syn. Troeh. p. 212 ='; de Oca, 

 La Nat. iii. p. 302, fig. 44'; Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-MQiiches, i. p. 271, t. 24"; Gonld, Mon. 

 Troch., Suppl. t. 55 (April, 1881) '; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 74 ^ 



E. eanmicB similis, quoad corporis et alse colores ; candae rectricibus mediis pallide cupreo-viridibns et rectri- 

 cibus quatuor utrinque ad basin albis ad apicem et ad pogonium externum ad purpureo-griseum gradatim 

 mutandis. 



$ adhuc ignota. 



Hah. Mexico, Omilteme {Mrs. E. H. Smith % Putla (Bebouch^). 



Mr. Elliot described this species from specimens obtained at Putla in Western 

 Mexico by the French collector Rebouch, who sent them to M. Boucard i. The only 

 other specimens we have seen formed part of the collection formed for us by Mrs. 

 Herbert H. Smith in the Sierra Madre del Sur at Omilteme, a small place situated 

 in the mountains above Chilpancingo at an elevation of 8000 feet above sea-level. 

 Mrs. Smith secured two males in beautiful condition in the month of July, but no 

 females; and that sex still remains unknown to us. 



d^. nostrum brevius, magis arcuatum. 



ELVIRA. 



Leucochloris (Elvira), Mulsant & Verreaux, Class. Troch. p. 32 (1865). 



Elvira, Muls. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, i. p. 266; Salv. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 74. 



