Genus Eustephanus Reichenb.

So different are the three birds found on the island of Juan Fernandez, that it would not involve a great stretch of impropriety to assign to each of them a separate generic appellation; I shall, however, retain them all under the name of Eustephanus. On an examination of the plates of the three species, it will be seen how remarkably they differ in size, colour, and markings. I consider it a very singular fact connected with the family of Humming-Birds, that three species should be found on an island so distant from the mainland, and that two of them should be confined to this isolated spot, surrounded as it is by the wide waters of the Pacific Ocean.

• 295.

  Eustephanus galeritus

  Habitat: Chile and Juan Fernandez

  Plate 265 Eustephanus galeritus Chilian Fire-crown

  “Found about Valparaiso in abundance in the months of August, September, and October.”— Bridges in Proc. of Zool. Soc. part xi. p. 115.

  • Sephanoïdes Kingi, Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, p. 19.
  • Eustephanus galeritus, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p. 14; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 11; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 76.
• 296.

  Eustephanus Stokesi

  Habitat: Juan Fernandez

  Plate 266 Eustephanus Stokesi Stokes’ Humming Bird

  • Thaumaste Stokesii, Reichenb. Aufz. der Col. p.14; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 12.
  • Eustephanus Stokesi, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 75.
• 297.

  Eustephanus Fernandensis

  Habitat: Juan Fernandez

  Plate 267 Eustephanus Fernandensis Cinnamon Fire Crown

  • Eustephanus Fernandensis, Reichenb. Auf. der Col. p. 14; Id. Troch. Enum. p. 11; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. Theil iii. p. 76.

Supplemental

• Eustephanus leyboldi Leybold’s Firecrown
• Eustephanus fernandensis Cinnamon Firecrown