328 TEOCHILID^. 



1. Eugenes falgens. 



Trochilus fulgens, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 441 \ 



Eugenes fulgens, Gould, Mon. Troch. ii. t. 59^ Moore, P.Z.S. 1859, p. 53' j Scl. & f ' b 



1859, p. 128 '; Salv. Ibis, 1860, pp. 261 ', 263 "; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 302 ' ; Scl. 



P. Z. S. 1864, p. 176 ' ; Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xx. p. 273 ' ; Duges, La Nat. i. 



p. 141 " ; Henshaw, in Wheeler's Geogr. & Geol. Surv., Zool. v. p. 379 '' ; Villada, La Nat. 



ii. p. 349, t. i. fig. 5 "; de Oca, La Nat. iii. p. 164" ; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 250 "; 



Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 157 ''; Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. p. 322 '". 

 Cceligena fulgens, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 287 " ; 1858, p. 297 " ; 1859, pp. 367 ", 386 '\ 

 Ornismya rivolii. Less. Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouches, pp. xxvi, 48, t. 4^'. 

 Ornismya clemencia ? , Less. Suppl. Ois.-Mouches, p. 115, t. 8^^. 

 Trochilus melamgaster, Licht. in Mus. Ber., fide Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 20 ". 

 Eugenes viridiceps, Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, (2) xxv. p. 55 (1878) ". 



Supra saturate cupreo-viridis, ijitidus, cervice postica et dorso antico Bigris a fronte adspeetis ; capite summo 

 Isete micanti-violaceo : subtus gtda micanti-viridi, pectore et abdomine medio nigris a fronte, viridibus a 

 tergo adspeetis, abdomine imo griseo, tectricibus subcaudalibus pallide viridibus griseo late marginatis ; 

 Cauda cupreo-viridi : rostro nigro. Long, tota circa 5-5, alse 3-0, caudse rectr. lafc. 1'85, rectr. mad. 1'5, 

 rostri a rictu 1*4. 



$ supra saturate gramineo-viridis, nitida ; capite summo fuscescente : subtus grisea, gula plumis mediaUter 

 fuscis, hypochondriis viridi lavatis ; caudae rectrioibus lateralibus griseo-albo terminatis et fascia lata 

 subterminali cbalybeo-nigra ornatis. (Descr. maris et feminae ex Volcan de Puego, Guatemala. Mus. 

 nostr.) 



Eab. NoETH America, Arizona ^^. — Mexico, Sierra de San Luis Potosi, Sierra de Val- 

 paraiso, Sierra de Nayarit, Sierra de Bolaiios (W. B. Bichardson'^), Guanajuato 

 (Duges '^^), Temiscaltepec {Bullock'^), Valley of Mexico [White ^, Herrera i®), Chi- 

 malpa, Hacienda Eslava in the Valley of Mexico [F. Ferrari-Perez"^), Ajusco Valley of 

 Mexico ( W. B. Richardson ''), Eio Frio, Ixtaccihuatl ( W. B. B. 7), Puebla [F. Ferrari- 

 Perez ^5), La Parada {Boucard^), Alpine region of Orizaba (Sumichrast ^'^), Las Vigas 

 (Ferrari-Perez), Jalapa (de Oca ^^ ^^, Ferrari-Perez ^^, M. Tritjillo '^), Coatepec (de 

 Oca 1^), Mirador (Sartorius, in U. S. Nat. Mus.), Cordova (Salle ^"), Totontepec 

 (Boucard^''), Sierra Nevada de Colima (W. B. Richardson), Omilteme and Xucu- 

 manatlan in Guerrero (Mrs. H. H. Smith ''), Tonaguia (M. Trujillo ^), Oaxaca 

 (Fenochio'^) ; Guatemala (Skinner % El Eincon in San Marcos, Santa Maria, San 

 Martin, Chuipache in Quezaltenango (W. B. Bichar dson '^), Yolcan de Fuego^ 

 Duenas ^, Mountains of Chilasco, Tactic ^, Cohan ^ (Q. S. & F. D. G. '') ; Nicaeagua, 

 San Eafael del Norte ( W. B. Richardson). 



This well-known species of the Mexican highlands crosses the northern political 

 boundary of Mexico and enters Southern Arizona. Thence it spreads southwards over 

 the sierras of North-western Mexico and over the tableland, including the valley and 

 the higher parts of the States of Vera Cruz, Colima, Guerrero, and Oaxaca. In Guate- 

 mala it is only found in the mountainous portions at an elevation of from 4000 to 8000 

 feet. Near Duenas, where the ravines of the Volcan de Fuego open out into the plain, 



