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Trochilus multicolor. — The Harlequin Humming-Bird. 
Plate XLIX. fig. 6. 
Crown of the head, chin, throat, breast, and upper part of the 
wings, of a rich, shining, golden-green ; cheeks, collum, and back 
of the neck iridescent ultramarine blue; abdomen and crissum 
orange; lower part of the neck with a collar of intense black, 
separating the blue from the verdigris blue of the back; lower 
part of the wings and tail fawn-coloured brown ; bill very long, 
which with the legs are pale fawn. Four inches long. Inhabits 
South America. 
Trochilus coluhris. — The Ruby-Throated Humming Bird. 
Plate XLIX. fig. 7. 
Upper parts rich shining green ; with the throat of a ruby iri¬ 
descent red colour; under parts white. Two inches and a half 
long. Inhabits the United States. 
Genus 11.—NECT ARINIA.— Illiger. 
Generic Character —Bill long, slender, subulate, arcuated, ex¬ 
panded, and depressed at the base ; mandibles of equal length; 
the lower one inflected, and partly enveloped in the upper one; 
tongue long, bifid, extensible, and tubular; nostrils situated 
near the base, closed by a naked membrane; tarsus as long as 
the middle toe, in some species longer; the lateral toes attached 
at the base; the first quill awanting, or very short, the third and 
fourth the longest. 
Nectarinia chalyhea. — The Chalybean Nect arina. 
Plate XLIX. fig. 5. 
Head, neck, breast, lesser wing-coverts, and back, rich gol¬ 
den-green ; wings and tail dusky-brown; breast crimson, with a 
transverse band of steel-blue; abdomen white. Length four 
inches and a half. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 
Genus 12.—CL IMA CTERIS.— Temminck. 
Generic Character. —Bill short, much compressed, and subu¬ 
late ; mandibles of equal length, and pointed; nostrils situated 
near the base, and covered by a naked membrane; tarsus the 
length of the middle toe, which, with the hallux, is very long; 
claws long and hooked, furrowed on the sides; exterior toe at- 
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