398 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Adult male.—Above bright metallic bronze-green, including middle 
pair of rectrices; secondaries and four innermost primaries hazel- 
rufous, the inner secondaries with a metallic green spot at tip of outer 
web and therufous of primaries passing into purplish brown terminally ; 
longer primaries uniform dusky, faintly glossed with purplish; lateral 
rectrix with inner web grayish white (purer white basally), crossed 
near tip by a bar of grayish dusky, the outer web hoary gray, darker 
along edge and at tip; second, third, and fourth rectrices (counting 
from each side) similar, but second with the white tip occupying both 
webs, and third and fourth dusky at tip (without any white ter- 
minal spot); under parts bright metallic yellowish green, the anal 
region and under tail-coverts pure white; bill black; iris dark brown; 
feet dusky brown (in dried skin); length (mounted specimen), 94; 
wing, 70; tail, 38.1; culmen, 18.3.2 
' Adult female—Above bright metallic golden green, the four 
middle rectrices paler, more silvery green; the pair next to middle 
tipped with white; two outer pairs of rectrices white, the outer- 
most slightly edged with dusky on subterminal portion of outer 
web, the next similarly but more extensively edged with dusky and 
with a dusky grayish spot on subterminal portion of inner web, 
next to edge; third rectrix with greater part of outer web light 
bronze-green, broadly tipped with white and grayish basally, the 
inner web more grayish bronzy green subterminally, white terminally, 
and pale gray or grayish white basally; secondaries and innermost 
primaries dull cinnamon-rufous, the latter passing into dusky pur- 
plish bronze terminally, the longer primaries uniform purplish 
dusky; under parts grayish white, the sides of breast spotted with 
metallic green; femoral tufts and under tail-coverts white or grayish 
white; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skin), 96; wing, 54.5; 
tail, 34.° 
Southwestern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Putla) and Guerrero 
(Omilteme; Chilpancingo); Puebla (Chinantla) ? 
Eupherusa poliocerca Extiot, Ann. and Mag. N. H., 4th ser., viii, Oct., 1871, 266 
(Putla, Oaxaca; coll. D. G. Elliot); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 212. 
Boucarp, Notes quelques Troch., 1873, 13 (Putla); Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 
170 (Putla; Chinantla, Puebla) —D’Oca, La Naturaleza, iii, 1875, 302, 
fig. 44; Troq. de Mex., 1875, 55, pl. (12), fig. 44—Muusant and VERREAUX, 
Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 4, 1874, 271, pl. 24.—Goutn, Suppl. Troch., 
1881, pl. 55.—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 74 (Putla; Omilteme, 
Guerrero, 8,000 ft.) —Sa.vin and Gopman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 
272._Hartert (E. and C.), Novit. Zool., i, 1894, 19, 61 (Chilpancingo, 
Guerrero, 5,000-7,000 ft.; descr. adult female), 
@ Described from a specimen from Chilpancingo, Guerrero, collected by O. T. 
Baron, and examined through courtesy of Mr. Frank Ward. 
6 Description and measurements from no. 186475, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. (Biological 
Survey coll.), from Omilteme, Setter; May 23, 1903, Nelson and Goldman. The 
tip of maxilla is broken off. 
