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and the outer band becomes broader, assumes a more 

 golden lustre, and upon the rump, being tinted with 

 red, the shades become similar in beauty to the 

 throat of the ruby-crested humming-bird ; the bright- 

 ness of this border becomes still more striking, being 

 separated from the blue by a band of deep velvetty 

 black. The base of each feather on those parts con- 

 cealed, is gray, mottled with black ; upon the tail 

 and upper coverts, this gray part becomes apparent, 

 and the marks assume the form of bars, one of whicn, 

 immediately succeeding the blue band, surrounds it, 

 and makes each feather appear eyed or ocellated. 

 From the distribution of the tail-coverts and lower 

 feathers of the rump, there are four rows with these 

 eyed tips, where the gray basal half of the feathers is 

 visible, and which combines very chastely, or keeps 

 down as it were the lustre of the others. The tail is 

 rounded at the end, and only contains fourteen 

 feathers. The lower parts of the body are banded 

 with bronze black and green, but without the bril- 

 liant lustre of the upper parts. The quills and bas- 

 tard pinions are broad, bordered obliquely with white, 

 which almost entirely occupies the outer margin of 

 the first. The secondaries have the outer webs 

 pure white, the bands in the centre not appearing 

 when the wings are closed ; the uppermost are 

 blotched in the centre with black, having a green 

 lustre, which, as the plumes shorten, expands more 



