396 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
[Euphrerusa] eximia Mutsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 205. 
E{upherusa] eximia Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 89, part. 
E{upherusa] e[ximia] eximia Ripeway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 1910, 
54, in text. 
[Polytmus] eximius Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 133, no. 1700. 
EUPHERUSA EXIMIA NELSONI Ridgway. 
NELSON'S HUMMING BIRD. 
Similar to FE. e. eximia, but larger, especially the bill; adult male 
with green of under parts more yellowish green, and black tip to inner 
web of two lateral rectrices (on each side) with line of demarcation 
against white of basal portion decidedly oblique and much less 
sharply defined. 
Adult male—tLength (skins), 93-103 (98); wing, 60.5-61 (60.7); 
tail, 34-35.5 (34.7); culmen, 18.5-19 (18.7).¢ 
Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Motzorongo) Oaxaca 
(Chimalapa and Sierra de Santo Domingo, Tehuantepec), and Puebla 
(Chinantla). ; 
Eupherusa eximia (not Ornismya eximia Delattre) Boucarp, Ann. Soc. Linn. 
Lyon, xx, 1874, 280; Notes quelques Troch., 1873, 12 (Chinantla, Puebla).— 
Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 72, part (Chimalapa and Sierra 
Santo Domingo, Oaxaca).—Satvin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 
1892, 271, part (Chinantla, Puebla; Chimalapa and Sierra Santo Domingo, 
Oaxaca). 
E{upherusa] eximia Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 89, part. 
Eupherusa eximia nelsoni Ripeway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 1910, 
54 (Motzorongo, Vera Cruz, e. Mexico; coll. U. 8. Nat. Mus.). 
EUPHERUSA EGREGIA Sclater and Salvin. 
EGREGIOUS HUMMING BIRD. 
Similar to FE. eximia, but larger; adult male with outer webs of 
two outer rectrices (on each side) white (except terminally), edged 
with dusky; adult female with outermost rectrix wholly white, or 
with merely a dusky edging for terminal portion of outer web. 
Adult male——Above bright metallic bronze-green or greenish 
bronze; middle pair of rectrices dark dull bronzy, sometimes more 
dusky terminally, the next two pairs similar but with inner web 
dull black or dusky, the two outer pairs white broadly tipped and 
(except inner web) edged with bronzy black or dusky; primaries 
purplish dusky, the innermost ones becoming cinnamon-rufous 
basally; secondaries cinnamon-rufous tipped with dusky (the inner- 
most with metallic bronze-green); under parts bright metallic grass 
green or yellowish green, the feathers deep gray basally, with a sub- 
terminal bar of pale gray or grayish white; femoral tufts dull white 
or grayish white; under tail-coverts pure white; bill dull black, the 
mandible sometimes brownish basally; iris dark brown; feet light 
@ Two specimens. 
