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basal portion cinnamon-rufous; secondaries cinnamon-rufous tipped 
with dusky (with bronze-green on innermost); under parts bright 
metallic grass green (more yellowish green in position a), the feathers 
deep gray basally, this separated from the metallic green tip by a 
narrow bar of grayish white; femoral tufts grayish white; under tail- 
coverts pure white; bill dull black, the mandible sometimes slightly 
brownish basally; iris dark brown; feet light brownish (reddish in 
life 2); length (skins), 84-93 (89); wing, 56.5-61 (58.7); tail, 32.5-34.5 
(33.5); culmen, 16-19 (17.6).% 
Adult female-—Above similar to the adult male but secondaries 
scarcely if at all tipped with dusky, middle rectrices black or dusky 
terminally, and two lateral rectrices (on each side) partly white 
(next to shaft); under parts (except femoral tufts and under tail- 
coverts) light brownish gray, the sides spotted or glossed with metallic 
green; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 80-90 (85); wing, 
50.5-54.5 (53.1); tail, 27-31 (29.9); culmen, 16-19.5 (17.6).° 
Immature male.—Similar to the adult male but bright green of 
under parts more restricted, the abdomen and flanks mostly grayish 
brown. 
Guatemala (Coban; Choctim; Kamkh4l; track between Cajabén 
and San Luis; Guatemala City); Nicaragua (Matagalpa; San Rafaél 
del Norte) .° 
Ornismya eximia DELaTTRE, Echo du Monde Savant, 1843, 1069, (Cob4n, Guate- 
mala). 
eae 7. Saucerottia] eximia ReicHenBacu, Aufz. der Colib., 1854, 8. 
[Saucerottia] eximia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 255. 
[Amazilia] eximia ReicHEenBacu, Troch. Enum.,,1855, 8, pl. 776, fig. 4802. 
Eupherusa eximia Goutp, Mon. Troch., v, pt. xiv, 1857, pl. 324; Introd. Troch., 
oct. ed., 1861, 163.—SciatEr and Satviy, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 130 
(Guatemala) —Satvin, Ibis, 1860, 195, 271 (Cob4n); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xvi, 1892, 72, part (Choctim, Kamkh4l, and Cob4én, Guatemala), 656 (Mata- 
galpa, Nicaragua)—Sciater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 316.—Muusant and 
VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 32; Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 4, 1874, 
272, part (Vera Paz, Guatemala); ii, livr. 1, 1875, pl. 20; iv, livr. 3, 1878, 
179.—Bovcarp, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xx, 1874, 280; Liste Ois. réc. Guat., 
1878, 46; Gen. Hum. Birds, 1894, 169 (Guatemala).—Euiot, Classif. and 
Synop. Troch., 1879, 212_—Satvin and Gopmavn, Ibis, 1892, 327 (Matagalpa, 
Nicaragua); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 271 (Cob4n, Kamkh4l, Choctim, 
and bet. Cajabén and San Luis, Guatemala; Matagalpa, Nicaragua). 
[Eupherusa] eximia SctateR and Savin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 92 (Guate- 
mala).—SHarre, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 116 (Guatemala). 
a Eleven specimens (ten from Guatemala, one from Nicaragua). 
b Eight specimens, from Guatemala. 
The single specimen from Nicaragua (San Rafaél del Norte) does not differ, either 
in coloration or dimensions, from Guatemalan examples, though the length of the 
culmen is half a millimeter shorter than the minimum of the same measurement in 
the latter series. 
¢ There are apparently no records of this species for Salvador nor Honduras. 
