EUPHERUSA EGREGIA, se, & Salv

Panama Stripe-tail.

Eupherusa egregia, Sclater & Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1868, p. 889.—Lawrence, Ann. Lye
a York, 1869, p. 146.—Salvin, Proe. Zool. Soe. 1870, p. a eee
Salvin, Nomencel. Av. Neotr. p- 92 (1873).—Mulsant, Hist. Nat. Oiseaux-
Mouches, i. p. 274 (1874).—Elliot, Synopsis of the Humming-Birds, De 213
(1878). :

Polytmus egreyius, Gray, Hand-list of Birds, i. p. 133, no. 1701 (1869).

 

Or the three known species of Eupherusa, E. polocerca inhabits Mexico, 2. exmia Guatemala, and
E. egregia Costa Rica and Panama. The latter is distinguished from £. evimia in the tail-markings, the
four central feathers being dark greenish bronze, and the remaining feathers white margined with black.

E. egregia was discovered by the well-known collector Arcé at Castello and Calovevora, in the province of
Veragua, in the State of Panama. Messrs. Sclater and Salvin give the following account of it :—* Arcé has
sent two specimens of this apparently distinct species of Lupherusa in one of his collections from Western
ult, and would probably eventually lose all traces of the irregular dark

Veragua. The male is not quite ad
In Z. eximia the whole

margins of the outer tail-feathers, as in the female no traces of these spots appear.
outer web of the two external rectrices is black, which renders the two allies readily distinguishable.”
The following is a translation of the original description :—

“ Above bright green, the primaries dusky tinged with purple, the secondé
two outer tail-feathers on each side white,

six middle ones black, tinged on the upper

Total length 4 inches, wing 2°3, tail 14,

iries chestnut at base, with the tip

purple ; underneath shining green, with the belly whitish ;
externally irregularly margined and tipped with black ; the
surface of the outer web with bronze; Dill black ; feet yellow.
bill from gape 0°85.

« Female. With the under surface white, some of the

lateral tail-feathers entirely white.” :
ral tail-feathers en \ RB. SJ

lateral feathers margined with shining green; two

 
  
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
   
  
    

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