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and of a light grey ; tail light grey ; the three 

 outer feathers very narrow, elongated, and 

 curved like the blade of a scimetar ; the inter- 

 mediate feathers are shorter and rounded, and 

 slightly tinged with gold ; feet black. 



The female resembles the male, excepting that 

 she is destitute of the splendid gorget ; the 

 narrow tail-feathers, are grey at their base, black 

 in the centre, and white at the extremity. 



Locality : Monte Video. 



Bourcier considers this species allied to the 

 Cora Humming-bird, Nat. Lib. Ornith. vol. i. 

 p. 129, pi. 25. 



Trochilus Evelyns. Adult male : beak slender, 

 black, straight, cylindrical ; head round ; all the 

 upper parts of the body, glossy brownish golden- 

 green ; throat and scaly gorget of a brilliant 

 violet-red ; feathers of the sides of the neck and 

 chest silky and whitish ; abdomen yellowish- 

 red ; wings narrow, the quill-feathers blackish- 

 grey, with a tinge of violet ; tail-feathers narrow, 

 elongated, and acuminated; the outer feather 

 is black with violet reflexions ; the next violet - 

 black at its extremity, with the inner vane of a 

 bright orange-red ; the third of an orange-red 

 has only the outer vane black, along its apical 

 half ; the fourth is almost entirely violet-black, 

 its outer vane being orange only at the base ; 

 the middle tail-feathers are rudimentary. 



Locality : New Providence. 



Allied to Trochilus (Ornismyd) Elisa of Lesson. 



